A maximum power point tracking technique for partially shaded photovoltaic systems in microgrids

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1596-1606

  Alajmi, Bader N ^a   Ahmed, Khaled H ^b   Finney, Stephen J ^a   Williams, Barry W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b Alexandria University The Faculty Of Engineering   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Boost converter; fuzzy logic controller (FLC); maximum power point (MPP) tracker (MPPT); partial shadowing; photovoltaic (PV)

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BOOST CONVERTER; FUZZY LOGIC CONTROLLERS; MAXIMUM POWER POINT; PARTIAL SHADOWING; PHOTOVOLTAIC;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 84870466481     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2011.2168796     Document Type: Article

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