Reactive power control for distributed generation power plants to comply with voltage limits during grid faults

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 6224-6234

  Camacho, Antonio ^a   Castilla, Miguel ^a   Miret, Jaume ^a   Guzman, Ramon ^a   Borrell, Angel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b Paseo Sant Joan Bosco   (Spain)

Author keywords

Grid fault; positive and negative sequence control; reactive power control; voltage sag; voltage support

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS; REACTIVE POWER; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE STABILIZING CIRCUITS;

CONTINUOUS OPERATION; GRID FAULT; NEGATIVE SEQUENCE; POINT OF COMMON COUPLING; THREE-PHASE VOLTAGES; UNBALANCED VOLTAGE SAGS; VOLTAGE SAGS; VOLTAGE SUPPORT;

POWER PLANTS;

EID: 84904427266     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2014.2301463     Document Type: Article

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