A low-voltage ride-through technique for grid-connected converters of distributed energy resources

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1821-1832

  Lee, Chia Tse ^a   Hsu, Che Wei ^b   Cheng, Po Tai ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Taiwan Army ^*  (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Distributed generation resources (DERs); grid connected converter; low voltage ride through (LVRT); reactive power

Indexed keywords

AC POWER SYSTEMS; CONTROL METHODS; CURRENT INJECTIONS; DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCES; GENERATION SYSTEMS; GRID VOLTAGE; GRID-CONNECTED; LOW-VOLTAGE RIDE-THROUGH; NEGATIVE-SEQUENCE CURRENTS; OPERATING STABILITY; OPERATION PRINCIPLES; OVER CURRENT; REAL POWER; VOLTAGE SAGS;

ASYNCHRONOUS MACHINERY; DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION; REACTIVE POWER;

ENERGY RESOURCES;

EID: 79960688082     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2011.2155016     Document Type: Article

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