Coordinated control of the bus tie switches and power supply converters for fault protection in DC microgrids

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 2037-2047

  Cairoli, Pietro ^a   Kondratiev, Igor ^a   Dougal, Roger A ^a  

^a University of South Carolina   (United States)

Author keywords

DC power system; dc power transmission; Fault currents; Power electronics; Protection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879745889     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2012.2214790     Document Type: Article

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