Comprehensive comparative evaluation of single- and multi-stage three-phase power converters for photovoltaic applications

INTELEC, International Telecommunications Energy Conference (Proceedings)

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Burkart, Ralph ^a   Kolar, Johann W ^a   Griepentrog, Gerd ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; GRID CODES; INVERTER SYSTEM; INVERTER TOPOLOGIES; MULTI-STAGE; OPTIMAL TOPOLOGIES; PHOTOVOLTAIC; PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS; POWER DENSITIES; PRACTICAL ISSUES; PV PLANTS; SEMICONDUCTOR CHIPS; SYSTEM AVAILABILITY; THERMAL MODEL; THREE-PHASE POWER CONVERTER; VOLTAGE SOURCE INVERTER;

ENERGY MANAGEMENT; ENERGY RESOURCES;

COST REDUCTION;

EID: 84872003286     PISSN: 02750473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INTLEC.2012.6374463     Document Type: Conference Paper

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