Este artículo puede compartirse bajo la licencia CC BY-ND 4.0 y se referencia usando el siguiente formato: J. D. Bastidas-Rodríguez, C. A. Ramos-Paja, "Types of inverters and topologies for microgrid applications" UIS Ingenierías, vol. 16 no. 1, pp. 7-14, Enero-Junio 2017.
Types of inverters and topologies for microgrid applications
ABSTRACTInverters 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 synthesis of the inverter topologies widely used in AC microgrids. Moreover, this paper also describes the inverters architectures and main control strategies.