11-level cascaded H-bridge grid-tied inverter interface with solar panels

Conference Proceedings - IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition - APEC

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 968-972

  Filho, Faete ^a   Cao, Yue ^a   Tolbert, Leon M ^a  

^a University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

Author keywords

Cascaded H bridges; MPPT; Multilevel converter; Photovoltaic; PWM; Solar panel

Indexed keywords

AC-GRID; CASCADED H-BRIDGE; FREQUENCY MATCH; GRID CONNECTIONS; H-BRIDGES; HARDWARE IN THE LOOPS; MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKING; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; OPTIMAL OPERATION; OUTPUT POWER; POWER GRIDS; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SOLAR PANELS; VOLTAGE PROFILE;

COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; POWER ELECTRONICS; PULSE MODULATION; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; PUMPS; REAL TIME CONTROL; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

PHASE LOCKED LOOPS;

EID: 77952173225     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APEC.2010.5433387     Document Type: Conference Paper

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