Asymmetric control of DC-link voltages for separate mppts in three-level inverters

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2760-2769

  Park, Yongsoon ^a   Sul, Seung Ki ^a   Lim, Chun Ho ^b   Kim, Woo Chull ^b   Lee, Seong Hun ^b  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b LG Uplus Corp   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Asymmetric voltage control; Grid connected inverter; Maximum power point tracking (MPPT); Photovoltaic (PV); Three level inverter

Indexed keywords

DC LINK CAPACITOR; DC-LINK VOLTAGES; GRID CONNECTED INVERTERS; MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKING; OVERALL EFFICIENCY; PHOTOVOLTAIC; PHOTOVOLTAIC INVERTERS; THREE-LEVEL INVERTERS;

CAPACITORS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 84885214283     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2012.2224139     Document Type: Article

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