System performance improvement provided by a power conditioning subsystem for central station photovoltaic-fuel cell power plant

IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1988, Pages 64-70

  Tam, Kwa sur ^a   Rahman, Saifur ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL, ELECTRIC VARIABLES - POWER; ECONOMICS; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS, POWER TYPE; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

AUGMENTED POWER CONDITIONING SUBSYSTEMS (APCS); ECONOMIC REACTIVE POWER CONTROL; FUEL CELLS;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0023984386     PISSN: 08858969     EISSN: 15580059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/60.4201     Document Type: Article

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