Can the output impedance of an inverter be designed capacitive?

IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1220-1225

  Zhong, Qing Chang ^a   Zeng, Yu ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Droop control; inverters with capacitive output impedances (C inverters); inverters with inductive output impedances (L inverters); inverters with resistive output impedances (R inverters); parallel operation of inverters; proportional load sharing

Indexed keywords

DROOP CONTROL; DROOP CONTROLLERS; FILTER INDUCTORS; LOAD SHARING; OUTPUT IMPEDANCE; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; PARALLEL OPERATIONS; REAL POWER; TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTIONS;

INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS;

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE;

EID: 84856523582     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2011.6119483     Document Type: Conference Paper

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