Eliminating leakage currents in neutral point clamped inverters for photovoltaic systems

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 435-443

  Cavalcanti, Marcelo C ^a   Farias, Alexandre M ^a   Oliveira, Kleber C ^a   Neves, Francisco A S ^a   Afonso, Joo L ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Energy conversion; photovoltaic power systems; pulse width modulated power converters

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC INVERTERS; LEAKAGE CURRENTS; MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKERS; MODULATION; VECTORS;

MODULATION TECHNIQUES; MULTI LEVEL INVERTER (MLI); NEUTRAL-POINT CLAMPED INVERTERS; NEW MODULATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER SYSTEMS; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS; PULSEWIDTH-MODULATED POWER CONVERTERS; THREE PHASE; THREE PHASIS; TRANSFORMERLESS;

ENERGY CONVERSION;

EID: 80053633990     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2011.2138671     Document Type: Article

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