Minimum energy and capacitance requirements for single-phase inverters and rectifiers using a ripple port

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 4690-4698

  Krein, Philip T ^a   Balog, Robert S ^b   Mirjafari, Mehran ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

ac dc power converters; Active filters; inverters; photovoltaic power generation; power conditioning; power converter reliability; rectifiers; single phase converters; solid state lighting

Indexed keywords

AC-DC POWER CONVERTERS; CAPACITIVE ENERGY STORAGE; CAPACITOR VOLTAGES; DOUBLE FREQUENCY; LED LAMPS; MEAN TIME BETWEEN FAILURES; MINIMUM ENERGY; PHOTOVOLTAIC CONVERTER; PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER GENERATION; POWER CONDITIONING; POWER FLOWS; SINGLE-PHASE INVERTERS; SOLID STATE LIGHTING; SYSTEM VOLTAGE;

ACTIVE FILTERS; CAPACITANCE; CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; ENERGY STORAGE; LIGHTING; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; POWER CONVERTERS; SOLAR ENERGY;

DC POWER TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84862989889     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2012.2186640     Document Type: Article

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