Microgrid stability characterization subsequent to fault-triggered islanding incidents

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 658-669

  Kasem Alaboudy, A H ^a   Zeineldin, H H ^b   Kirtley, James ^c  

^a SUEZ CANAL UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Distribution systems; grid faults; induction motor (IM) loads; inverter control schemes; microgrid stability

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SCHEMES; CRITICAL CLEARING TIME; DISTRIBUTED GENERATIONS (DGS); DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE; GRID FAULT; INTERFACE CONTROL; INVERTER CONTROL; INVERTER-BASED; ISLANDING; LOAD TYPE; MATLAB/SIMULINK SOFTWARE; MICRO GRID; MICROGRID CONTROL; MICROGRID STABILITY; PULL OUT; STABLE OPERATION; TRANSIENT FAULTS; VOLTAGE DIP;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INDUCTION MOTORS; POWER QUALITY;

STABILITY;

EID: 84859760227     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2012.2183150     Document Type: Article

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