This paper presents a comprehensive review on the unified power quality conditioner
(UPQC) to enhance the electric power quality at distribution levels. This is intended to …

Nowadays, new challenges arise relating to the compensation of power quality problems,
where the introduction of innovative solutions based on power electronics is of paramount …

This paper presents a review of advanced control techniques for microgrids. This paper
covers decentralized, distributed, and hierarchical control of grid-connected and islanded …

This paper summarizes the main problems and solutions of power quality in microgrids,
distributed-energy-storage systems, and ac/dc hybrid microgrids. First, the power quality …

This paper presents a new synchronous-reference-frame (SRF)-based control method to
compensate power-quality (PQ) problems through a three-phase four-wire unified PQ …

This paper introduces a new concept of optimal utilization of a unified power quality
conditioner (UPQC). The series inverter of UPQC is controlled to perform simultaneous 1) …

The unified power quality conditioner (UPQC) is a custom power device, which mitigates
voltage and current-related PQ issues in the power distribution systems. In this paper, a …

The advent of power electronic devices for the control of non-linear loads has made an
impact on the power quality at the Distribution side of the utility grid. The Distribution side …

With the wide application of non-linear loads and the large-scale access of distributed
energy generations based on power electronics equipments, power quality problems in the …

This paper proposes a novel reference signal generation method for the unified power
quality conditioner (UPQC) adopted to compensate current and voltage-quality problems of …