Grid-tie control of cascade dual-buck inverter with wide-range power flow capability for renewable energy applications

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1839-1849

  Sun, Pengwei ^a   Liu, Chuang ^b   Lai, Jih Sheng ^a   Chen, Chien Liang ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Cascade dual buck inverter; grid tie control; renewable energy; wide range power flow

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE POWER; ADMITTANCE COMPENSATION; BALANCE OF PLANT; CASCADE INVERTER; CONTROL SITES; CONTROL STRATEGIES; DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE; INVERTER SYSTEM; MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKING; POWER CONDITIONING SYSTEMS; POWER FLOWS; REACTIVE POWER FLOW; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; RENEWABLE ENERGY APPLICATIONS; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE; RESONANT CONTROLLER; TYPE II; CASCADE DUAL-BUCK INVERTERS; GRID-TIE CONTROLS; PROPORTIONAL RESONANT CONTROLLERS; STEADY-STATE AND DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE; WIDE-RANGE POWER FLOWS;

CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION; REACTIVE POWER; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

FUEL CELL POWER PLANTS;

EID: 84863139042     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2011.2175009     Document Type: Article

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