A voltage sensing approach for a maximum power tracking in integrated photovoltaic applications

2009 International Conference on Clean Electrical Power, ICCEP 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 691-698

  Cavallaro, C ^a   Chimento, F ^a   Musumeci, S ^a   Raciti, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Integrated PV converters; Maximum power tracking; Microcontroller based algorithm; PV plants; Voltage sensing

Indexed keywords

8-BIT MICROCONTROLLERS; CONTROL STRATEGIES; CURRENT SENSING; EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; FAST RESPONSE; INTEGRATED PV CONVERTERS; MAXIMUM POWER POINT; MAXIMUM POWER TRACKING; PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC PANELS; PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER PLANT; POWER SOURCES; PV MODULES; PV PLANTS; SEPIC CONVERTER; STEP-BY-STEP; SWITCHING CONVERTER; VERY LOW NOISE; VOLTAGE SENSING; WHOLE SYSTEMS; WORKING POINT;

ALGORITHMS; CONTROLLERS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; ENERGY CONVERSION; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

MICROCONTROLLERS;

EID: 70350729228     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCEP.2009.5211955     Document Type: Conference Paper

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