A review of technical challenges in planning and operation of remote area power supply systems

Y Tan, L Meegahapola, KM Muttaqi - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2014 - Elsevier
Remote area power supply (RAPS) systems are being used for many years to supply power
to rural or remote communities where the utility grid is not accessible. In order to avoid the …

A survey of techniques for designing and managing microgrids

R Venkatraman, SK Khaitan - 2015 IEEE Power & Energy …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent trends of rising demands of electricity for supporting critical infrastructure have led to
increasing interest in microgrids. Microgrids hold the promise of being the reliable and …

Inducverters: PLL-less converters with auto-synchronization and emulated inertia capability

M Ashabani, FD Freijedo, S Golestan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Inspired by induction machines working principles, this paper presents the idea of phase-
locked-loop-less (PLL-less) operation of grid-connected voltage source converters (VSCs) …

Novel comprehensive control framework for incorporating VSCs to smart power grids using bidirectional synchronous-VSC

M Ashabani, YARI Mohamed - IEEE Transactions on Power …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a new control strategy for voltage-source converters (VSCs) in the
frequency-angle domain which enables dc-link voltage regulation via frequency and load …

A fuzzy logic controller for autonomous operation of a voltage source converter-based distributed generation system

HM Hasanien, M Matar - IEEE Transactions on Smart grid, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a fuzzy logic controller (FLC) for autonomous (islanded) operation of an
electronically interfaced distributed generation unit and its load. In the grid-connected mode …

A new way of controlling parallel-connected inverters by using synchronous-reference-frame virtual impedance loop—Part I: Control principle

Y Guan, JM Guerrero, X Zhao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel simple and effective autonomous current-sharing controller for parallel three-phase
inverters is proposed in this paper. The proposed controller provides faster response and …

New family of microgrid control and management strategies in smart distribution grids—analysis, comparison and testing

SM Ashabani, YAI Mohamed - IEEE Transactions on Power …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a new family of universal control and management strategies for
microgrids in smart distribution grids. The paper also provides a general and …

Microgrids: architectures, controls, protection, and demonstration

Q Fu, A Nasiri, A Solanki, A Bani-Ahmed… - Electric Power …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
In the recent years, there has been a growing interest in the concept of microgrids to
integrate distributed generation systems and to provide higher reliability for critical loads …

Power decoupling strategy based on 'virtual negative resistor'for inverters in low‐voltage microgrids

P Zhang, H Zhao, H Cai, J Shi, X He - IET Power Electronics, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In a low‐voltage microgrid, due to the effect of mainly resistive line impedance, the
conventional P/w and Q/E droop control is subject to the coupling and dynamic instability of …

General interface for power management of micro-grids using nonlinear cooperative droop control

SM Ashabani, YARI Mohamed - IEEE Transactions on Power …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a comprehensive and general nonlinear control/power management
strategy for both converter-and synchronous-machine-based units in microgrids. The …