Implementation and performance evaluation of a low-cost current-source grid-connected inverter for PV applications

2008 IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies, ICSET 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 939-944

  Ertasgin, G ^a   Whaley, D M ^a   Ertugrul, N ^a   Soong, W L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR CORRECTION; ENERGY CONSERVATION;

BOOST SWITCHES; CONSTANT-CURRENT SOURCES; CURRENT SOURCES; DC-LINKS; ENTIRE SYSTEMS; GRID-CONNECTED INVERTERS; H BRIDGES; LOWER COSTS; NUMBER OF COMPONENTS; OPEN-LOOP CONTROLS; OUTPUT CURRENTS; OUTPUT FILTERS; OUTPUT POWER; PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS; PHASE CURRENTS; POWER FACTORS; SIMULATION RESULTS; SINUSOIDAL CURRENTS; TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTIONS; VOLTAGE-SOURCE INVERTERS; ZERO-CURRENT-SWITCHING;

ELECTRIC CONVERTERS;

EID: 62949196362     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSET.2008.4747142     Document Type: Conference Paper

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