Improved transformerless inverter with common-mode leakage current elimination for a photovoltaic grid-connected power system

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 752-762

  Yang, Bo ^a   Li, Wuhua ^a   Gu, Yunjie ^a   Cui, Wenfeng ^a   He, Xiangning ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Common mode leakage current; junction capacitance; phase shift; photovoltaic (PV) system; sinusoidal pulsewidth modulation (SPWM) strategy; transformerless inverter

Indexed keywords

COMMONMODE; CONTROL STRATEGIES; CURRENT RIPPLES; DC SIDE; DOUBLE FREQUENCY; FULL-BRIDGE INVERTERS; GRID CONNECTED SYSTEMS; GRID-CONNECTED; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; INPUT VOLTAGES; JUNCTION CAPACITANCES; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS; POWER SWITCHES; SINGLE-PHASE INVERTERS; SINUSOIDAL PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; THERMAL DESIGNS; THREE-LEVEL; TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTIONS; TRANSFORMERLESS;

CAPACITANCE; DC POWER TRANSMISSION; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR CORRECTION; FREQUENCY DOUBLERS; PHASE SHIFT; PHASE SHIFTERS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

LEAKAGE CURRENTS;

EID: 84862934158     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2011.2160359     Document Type: Article

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