Efficiency improvement of grid-tied inverters at low input power using pulse-skipping control strategy

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3128-3137

  Hu, Haibing ^a   Al Hoor, Wisam ^a,b   Kutkut, Nasser H ^c   Batarseh, Issa ^a   Shen, Z John ^a  

^a University of Central Florida   (United States)

^b Petra Solar   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Efficiency; inverter; pulse skipping; renewable sources

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

CONTROL STRATEGIES; EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT; INVERTER; OPERATION MODE; OPTIMIZATION METHOD; PULSE SKIPPING; RENEWABLE SOURCES; SEARCH TECHNIQUE;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM CONTROL;

EID: 81855214535     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2010.2080690     Document Type: Article

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