Design, Operation and Economic Analysis of Autonomous Hybrid PV-Diesel Power Systems Including Battery Storage

Journal of Electrical Engineering

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-10

  Papadopoulos, Demetrios P ^a   Maltas, Eleftherios Z ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

battery bank; bidirectional inverter; diesel generator; programmable logic controller; PV generator

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896786922     PISSN: 13353632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10187-010-0001-z     Document Type: Article

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