Voltage control techniques in uninterruptible power supply inverters: A review

International Review of Electrical Engineering

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1531-1542

  Shahgholian, Ghazanfar ^a   Faiz, Jawad ^a   Jabbari, Masoud ^a  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Control techniques; Inverter; Uninterruptible power supply

Indexed keywords

EID: 82455187838     PISSN: 18276660     EISSN: 25332244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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