Control of a cascaded H-bridge multilevel converter for grid connection of photovoltaic systems

IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3976-3982

  Kouro, Samir ^a   Wu, Bin ^a   Moya, Álvaro ^b   Villanueva, Elena ^b   Correa, Pablo ^b   Rodríguez, José ^b  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASCADED H-BRIDGE; CIRCULATING POWER; CONTROL METHODS; CONTROL SCHEMES; CURRENT RIPPLES; DC-LINK VOLTAGES; GRID CONNECTIONS; GRID CURRENT; MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKING; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS; REDUCED SWITCHING; SIMULATION RESULT; STEP UP TRANSFORMERS; SYSTEM EFFICIENCY; VOLTAGE ORIENTED CONTROL;

DC TRANSFORMERS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; INDUCTION MOTORS; INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; POWER CONVERTERS; PUMPS; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

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EID: 77951525686     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2009.5415332     Document Type: Conference Paper

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