Solar photovoltaic power conversion using modular multilevel converter

2012 Students Conference on Engineering and Systems, SCES 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Rajasekar, S ^a   Gupta, Rajesh ^a  

^a MOTILAL NEHRU NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Grid; modular multilevel converter (MMC); photovoltaic (PV) array; total harmonic distortion (THD)

Indexed keywords

DC-LINK VOLTAGES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GRID; GRID VOLTAGE; GRID-CONNECTED; HIGHER ORDER HARMONICS; IN-PHASE; MAXIMUM POWER POINT; MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKING; MODULAR MULTI-LEVEL CONVERTERS; PHOTOVOLTAIC ARRAYS; POWER CONVERSION; POWER SYSTEM COMPUTER AIDED DESIGNS; PSCAD/EMTDC; SIMULATION STUDIES; SINGLE STAGE; SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER; SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAICS; TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTION (THD); UNITY POWER FACTOR; UTILITY VOLTAGES;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR CORRECTION; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

DC POWER TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84861615601     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SCES.2012.6199035     Document Type: Conference Paper

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