Design and control of a grid-connected three-phase 3-level NPC inverter for Building Integrated Photovoltaic systems

2012 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies, ISGT 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Kim, Youngroc ^a   Cha, Hanju ^a   Song, Byeong Mun ^b   Lee, Kwang Y ^b  

^a Chungnam National University   (South Korea)

^b Baylor University   (United States)

Author keywords

A transformerless 3 level NPC inverter; BIPV; current control; LC filter; PV inverter

Indexed keywords

3 LEVELS; BIPV; BUILDING INTEGRATED PHOTOVOLTAIC; BUILDING INTEGRATED PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; COMMON MODE VOLTAGE; CURRENT CONTROLLER; DESIGN AND CONTROL; GALVANIC ISOLATION; GRID-CONNECTED; LC FILTER; NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED INVERTERS; NPC INVERTERS; PEAK LOAD; PV ARRAYS; PV INVERTER; PV SYSTEM; TOTAL HARMONICS DISTORTIONS;

DC-DC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC CURRENT CONTROL; LEAKAGE CURRENTS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SMART POWER GRIDS;

PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

EID: 84860844734     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISGT.2012.6175663     Document Type: Conference Paper

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