A multiport ac link pv inverter with reduced size and weight for stand-alone application

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2217-2228

  Amirabadi, Mahshid ^a   Toliyat, Hamid A ^a,b   Alexander, William C ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c Ideal Power Converters Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Batteries; hybrid power systems; inverters; photovoltaic systems; soft switching

Indexed keywords

BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS; HYBRID POWER SYSTEMS; PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULES; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS; POWER CONVERSION UNITS; POWER ELECTRONIC INTERFACE; SINGLE INPUT/SINGLE OUTPUTS; STANDALONE APPLICATIONS;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITORS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SOFT SWITCHING; SOLAR CELLS;

ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

EID: 84884552990     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2013.2262093     Document Type: Article

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