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<journal-id>1665-6423</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Journal of applied research and technology]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[J. appl. res. technol]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1665-6423</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Ciencias Aplicadas y Tecnología]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S1665-64232017000400371</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1016/j.jart.2017.03.004</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Analysis of droop control method in an autonomous microgrid]]></article-title>
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<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Khaledian]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Amir]]></given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Aliakbar Golkar]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Masoud]]></given-names>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,K. N. Toosi University of Technology Department of Electrical Engineering ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Tehran ]]></addr-line>
<country>Iran</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>00</month>
<year>2017</year>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>00</month>
<year>2017</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>15</volume>
<numero>4</numero>
<fpage>371</fpage>
<lpage>377</lpage>
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<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1665-64232017000400371&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1665-64232017000400371&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1665-64232017000400371&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract In this paper an analytical approach is conducted to evaluate the droop control method in an islanding microgrid. Droop control is the key solution for sharing the demand power between generators in autonomous microgrids where there is no support from the electricity distribution grid. In the paper, three important load types are investigated to verify the droop control performance. First, coupling of active power and reactive power is considered in the microgrid and a new method is proposed to facilitate separate control of powers. In the proposed method the effects of droop gains on decoupling of active power and reactive power control, voltage regulation, power oscillation and system stability are studied. In the second load type study, by applying the different types of faults, induction motor characteristics are observed. By simulation results it is shown that the fault intensity and duration will determine how the microgrid attains to fast frequency convergence and how fast protection system operation can improve system stability. In the third case, imbalanced nonlinear load is studied in the microgrid and the influences of embedded controllers on harmonic distortion, system balance and voltage regulation are observed.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Distributed generator]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Droop control]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Electrical load and microgrid]]></kwd>
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