MPPT battery charger for stand-alone wind power system

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1631-1638

  Lo, Kuo Yuan ^a   Chen, Yaow Ming ^a   Chang, Yung Ruei ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Battery charger; constant on time control; maximum power point tracking (MPPT); wind turbines

Indexed keywords

BATTERY BANKS; BATTERY CHARGERS; BUCK-TYPE POWER CONVERTER; CHARGING EFFICIENCY; CIRCUIT PARAMETER; CONSTANT ON-TIME CONTROL; DISCONTINUOUS CONDUCTION MODE; HIGH POWER OUTPUT; HIGH RELIABILITY; MAXIMUM POWER; MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKING; MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKING (MPPT); OVER SPEED PROTECTION; PROTOTYPE CIRCUITS; PULSATING CURRENTS; STAND-ALONE WIND POWER SYSTEMS;

DC-DC CONVERTERS; ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT TRACKING; OPTICAL FLOWS; POWER TRANSMISSION; PUMPS; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

CHARGING (BATTERIES);

EID: 79960922625     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2010.2088405     Document Type: Article

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