Analysis and design of a photovoltaic system DC connected to the utility with a power factor corrector

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 4354-4362

  Lo, Yu Kang ^a   Chiu, Huang Jen ^a   Lee, Ting Peng ^a   Purnama, Irwan ^a   Wang, Jian Min ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL FORMOSA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Grid connection; Maximum power point tracking (MPPT); Power factor correction

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS AND DESIGN; DC LOAD; DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; ELECTRIC POWER GRIDS; GRID CONNECTION; MAXIMUM POWER; MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKING (MPPT); OPERATION PRINCIPLES; OUTPUT DC VOLTAGE; PARALLEL-CONNECTED; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS; POWER FACTOR CORRECTION; POWER FACTOR CORRECTORS; POWER FLOWS; PV PANEL; PV SYSTEM; UNITY POWER FACTOR;

AC GENERATOR MOTORS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; OPTICAL FLOWS; POWER GENERATION; PUMPS;

PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

EID: 70350405678     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2009.2030216     Document Type: Article

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