Design of a photovoltaic simulator with a novel reference signal generator and two-stage LC output filter

2009 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 319-326

  Koran, Ahmed ^a   Sano, Kenichiro ^b   Kim, Rae Young ^a   Lai, Jih Sheng ^a  

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

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Analog control; And two stage LC filter; Photovoltaic equivalent circuit; Photovoltaic simulator

Indexed keywords

ANALOG CONTROLS; LC FILTER; PHOTOVOLTAIC EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT; PHOTOVOLTAIC SIMULATOR; TWO STAGE;

CONTROLLERS; DESIGN; ENERGY CONVERSION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; REMOTE CONTROL; SIGNAL GENERATORS; SIMULATORS;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 72449185232     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2009.5316190     Document Type: Conference Paper

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