Revista UIS Ingenierías

Vol. 16 No. 1 (2017): UIS Engineering Journal
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Types of inverters and topologies for microgrid applications

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  • Juan David Bastidas Rodriguez,
  • Carlos Andrés Ramos Paja
Juan David Bastidas Rodriguez
Universidad Industrial de Santander
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Carlos Andrés Ramos Paja
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18273/revuin.v16n1-2017001

Published 2016-12-30

Keywords

  • Microrredes en AC,
  • inversores,
  • tipos de inversores,
  • principales topologías

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Bastidas Rodriguez, J. D., & Ramos Paja, C. A. (2016). Types of inverters and topologies for microgrid applications. Revista UIS Ingenierías, 16(1), 7–14. https://doi.org/10.18273/revuin.v16n1-2017001

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Abstract

Inverters are the key actuator in the control of AC microgrids, since they manage the power flows of both the generators and energy storage devices. In general, there are three types of inverters depending on the control strategy: grid feeding inverters, grid forming inverters and grid supporting inverters. Those inverters can be implemented with different hardware topologies, each one of them with advantages and disadvantages. This paper presents a sinthesis of the widely used inverter topologies used in AC microgrids. Moreover, this paper also describes the inverters control architectures and the main strategies

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