Design, optimisation and application of a resonant DC link inverter for solar energy systems

COMPEL - The International Journal for Computation and Mathematics in Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1761-1776

  Colak, Ilhami ^a   Demirtas, Mehmet ^a   Kabalci, Ersan ^b  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NEVSEHIR HACI BEKTAS VELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Boost converter; MPPTcontrol; Resonant DC link inverter; Solar tracking; Switching losses

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; RESONANT CIRCUITS; SOFT SWITCHING; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; SOLAR ENERGY; VOLTAGE CONTROL; ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

BOOST CONVERTER; MPPTCONTROL; RESONANT DC LINK INVERTER; SOLAR TRACKING; SWITCHING LOSS;

DC-DC CONVERTERS;

EID: 84917740764     PISSN: 03321649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/COMPEL-06-2013-0200     Document Type: Article

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