H6 transformerless full-bridge PV grid-tied inverters

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1229-1238

  Zhang, Li ^a   Sun, Kai ^a   Xing, Yan ^b   Xing, Mu ^c  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^c STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Common mode voltage; grid tied inverter; leakage current; photovoltaic (PV) generation system; transformerless inverter

Indexed keywords

COMMON MODE VOLTAGE; GRID-TIED INVERTER; INVERTER TOPOLOGIES; LOW-LEAKAGE CURRENT; MODULATION STRATEGY; PHOTOVOLTAIC GENERATION; SAFETY REQUIREMENTS; TRANSFORMERLESS INVERTERS;

EFFICIENCY; TOPOLOGY;

LEAKAGE CURRENTS;

EID: 84884571100     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2013.2260178     Document Type: Article

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