Analysis and mitigation of low-frequency instabilities in autonomous medium-voltage converter-based microgrids with dynamic loads

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1643-1658

  Kahrobaeian, Alireza ^a   Mohamed, Yasser Abdel Rady I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Decentralized droop control; distributed generation microgrids; dynamic loads; induction motor (IM); stability

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLERS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DAMPING; DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION; DYNAMIC LOADS; INDUCTION MOTORS; ROBUST CONTROL; STABILIZATION;

2 DEGREE OF FREEDOMS; CONTROL PERFORMANCE; DROOP CONTROL; INDUCTION MOTOR LOAD; LOW FREQUENCY INSTABILITY; MICRO GRID; OSCILLATORY DYNAMICS; STEADY STATE PERFORMANCE;

DYNAMICS;

EID: 84887276057     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2013.2264790     Document Type: Article

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