European efficiency improvement in photovoltaic applications by means of parallel connection of power converters

2009 13th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, EPE '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Berasategi, A ^a,b   Cabal, C ^a,b   Alonso, C ^a,b   Estibals, B ^a,b  

^a LAAS CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Interleaved converters; Photovoltaic; Renewable energy system

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT; ENERGY PRODUCTIONS; INTERLEAVED CONVERTERS; NEW STRUCTURES; PARALLEL CONNECTIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC; PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC GENERATORS; POWER RANGE; RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS; WORKING POINT; WORKING TIME;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC CONNECTORS; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; POWER ELECTRONICS;

RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

EID: 72949101404     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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