A family of neutral point clamped full-bridge topologies for transformerless photovoltaic grid-tied inverters

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 730-739

  Zhang, Li ^a   Sun, Kai ^c   Feng, Lanlan ^b   Wu, Hongfei ^a   Xing, Yan ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^b Delta Electronics   (China)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Common mode voltage; grid tied inverter; leakage current; neutral point clamped inverter; photovoltaic (PV) generation system

Indexed keywords

COMMON MODE VOLTAGE; CURRENT CHARACTERISTIC; FULL-BRIDGE INVERTERS; FULL-BRIDGE TOPOLOGY; GRID-TIED INVERTER; HIGHER EFFICIENCY; INVERTER TOPOLOGIES; LOW COSTS; LOW-LEAKAGE CURRENT; MODULATION STRATEGY; NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED; NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED INVERTERS; NPC INVERTERS; OPERATIONAL MODES; PHOTOVOLTAIC; PHOTOVOLTAIC GENERATION; POWER-LOSSES; PV INVERTER; SAFETY REQUIREMENTS; SYSTEMATIC METHOD; TOPOLOGY GENERATION; TRANSFORMERLESS;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; LEAKAGE CURRENTS;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 84867080532     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2012.2205406     Document Type: Article

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