Energy-balance control of PV cascaded multilevel grid-connected inverters under level-shifted and phase-shifted PWMs

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 98-111

  Chavarría, Javier ^a   Biel, Domingo ^a   Guinjoan, Francesc ^a   Meza, Carlos ^b   Negroni, Juan J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^c UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLÓGICA METROPOLITANA   (Chile)

Author keywords

Cascaded H bridge inverters; discrete time control; grid connected PV systems; multilevel modulations

Indexed keywords

BRIDGE CIRCUITS; PHASE SHIFT; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

CASCADED H-BRIDGE INVERTERS; CONTROL ACTIONS; CONTROL DESIGN; CONTROL SCHEMES; DISCRETE CONTROLLERS; DISCRETE-TIME CONTROL; ENERGY-BALANCE CONTROL; GRID CONNECTED INVERTERS; GRID CONNECTED PV SYSTEM; GRID-CONNECTED; H-BRIDGES; MAXIMUM POWER; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; MULTILEVEL MODULATION; OPERATING CONDITION; OPERATING POINTS; PHASE SHIFTED; PHOTOVOLTAIC ARRAYS; PV ARRAYS; PV SYSTEM; SEVEN-LEVEL; WAVE FORMS;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 84866265900     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2012.2186108     Document Type: Article

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