Virtual-flux-based voltage-sensor-less power control for unbalanced grid conditions

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 4071-4087

  Suul, Jon Are ^a   Luna, Alvaro ^b   Rodríguez, Pedro ^b,c   Undeland, Tore ^d  

^a SINTEF ENERGY RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c ABENGOA RESEARCH   (Spain)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Control of active and reactive powers; three phase voltage source converters; unbalanced grid voltage; virtual flux; voltage sensor less control

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE POWER; CONTROL OBJECTIVES; CURRENT CAPABILITY; CURRENT LIMITATION; CURRENT REFERENCE; DOUBLE FREQUENCY; FLEXIBLE OPERATION; GENERALIZED EQUATIONS; GRID CONDITIONS; GRID VOLTAGE; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; NEGATIVE SEQUENCE; POWER FLOWS; POWER OSCILLATIONS; REAL COEFFICIENTS; REFERENCE FRAME; SEQUENCE CURRENT; THREE-PHASE VOLTAGE SOURCE CONVERTERS; UNBALANCED CONDITION; UNBALANCED GRID FAULT; VIRTUAL FLUX; VOLTAGE SOURCE CONVERTERS;

FREQUENCY DOUBLERS; POWER CONTROL; REACTIVE POWER;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 84861423429     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2012.2190301     Document Type: Article

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