A new approach to achieve maximum power point tracking for PV system with a variable inductor

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1031-1037

  Zhang, Longlong ^a   Hurley, William Gerard ^b   Wölfle, Werner Hugo ^c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^c Convertec Ltd ^*  (Ireland)

Author keywords

Impedance matching; maximum power point tracking (MPPT); microgrid; photovoltaic (PV); variable inductor

Indexed keywords

CURRENT CHARACTERISTIC; DYNAMIC CONTROLS; INCREMENTAL CONDUCTANCE METHODS; MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKING; MAXIMUM POWER TRANSFER; MICROGRID; OPERATING RANGES; OUTPUT INDUCTORS; PHOTOVOLTAIC (PV); PV SYSTEM; STABLE OPERATION; VARIABLE INDUCTORS;

IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); INCIDENT SOLAR RADIATION; INDUCTANCE; OPTICAL FLOWS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; PUMPS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SUN;

ELECTRIC INDUCTORS;

EID: 79958849323     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2010.2089644     Document Type: Article

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