Active filter for the removal of the DC current component for single-phase power lines

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 4403-4414

  Buticchi, Giampaolo ^a   Consolini, Luca ^a   Lorenzani, Emilio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Active filters; distributed power; nonlinear systems; power grids; power system measurements; power transformers; static power converters

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; POWER TRANSFORMERS;

DISTRIBUTED POWER; GRID-CONNECTED CONVERTERS; MAGNETIC CORE SATURATION; PARASITIC RESISTANCES; POINT OF COMMON COUPLING; POWER GRIDS; POWER SYSTEM MEASUREMENT; STATIC POWER CONVERTERS;

ACTIVE FILTERS;

EID: 84878150353     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2012.2213562     Document Type: Article

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