Assessment and optimization of the transient response of proportional-resonant current controllers for distributed power generation systems

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1367-1383

  Vidal, Ana ^a   Freijedo, Francisco D ^a   Yepes, Alejandro G ^a   Fernandez Comesana, Pablo ^a   Malvar, Jano ^a   Lopez, Óscar ^a   Doval Gandoy, Jesús ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

AC DC power conversion; current control; dc ac power conversion; distributed power generation

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC CURRENT CONTROL; ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS; OPTIMIZATION; POWER CONVERTERS; POWER ELECTRONICS; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS; UNINTERRUPTIBLE POWER SYSTEMS;

AC/DC POWER CONVERSION; CURRENT CONTROLLER; CURRENT REFERENCE; DC/AC POWER CONVERSION; DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION SYSTEMS; ELECTRICAL NETWORKS; ERROR SIGNAL; FAST TRANSIENT RESPONSE; GENERATION UNITS; GRID CODES; KEYPOINTS; LOW-VOLTAGE RIDE-THROUGH; OPTIMAL GAIN; PHASE-ANGLE JUMP; POINT OF COMMON COUPLING; POLE-ZERO; POWER ELECTRONICS DEVICES; REALISTIC CONDITIONS; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE; SETTLING TIME; THREE-PHASE VOLTAGE SOURCE CONVERTERS; VOLTAGE SAGS;

POWER QUALITY;

EID: 84870527285     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2012.2188257     Document Type: Article

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