Voltage-Based control of a smart transformer in a microgrid

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1291-1305

  Vandoorn, Tine L ^a   De Kooning, Jeroen D M ^a   Meersman, Bart ^a   Guerrero, Josep M ^b   Vandevelde, Lieven ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Active load control; active power control; droop control; islanded microgrid; point of common coupling (PCC); voltage source inverter (VSI)

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC LOADS; POWER CONTROL;

ACTIVE LOAD CONTROL; ACTIVE POWER CONTROL; DROOP CONTROL; MICRO GRID; POINT OF COMMON COUPLING; VOLTAGE-SOURCE INVERTER;

ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS;

EID: 84870446178     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2011.2165463     Document Type: Article

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