Dynamic Performance Improvement of a Grid-Tied PV System Using a Feed-Forward Control Loop Acting on the NPC Inverter Currents

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 2092-2101

  Campanhol, Leonardo Bruno Garcia ^a   Da Silva, Sérgio Augusto Oliveira ^b   De Oliveira, Azauri Albano ^c   Bacon, Vinícius Dário ^b  

^a Nucleus of Industrial Innovation   (Brazil)

^b Department of Electrical Engineering   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Active power line conditioning; feed forward control loop (FFCL); photovoltaic (PV) system; three level neutral point clamped (NPC) inverter

Indexed keywords

CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSORS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACTIVE POWER; FEED FORWARD CONTROL LOOP; GRID-CONNECTED PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; GRID-TIED PV SYSTEMS; NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED INVERTERS; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS; STATIC AND DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE; THREE-LEVEL NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM CONTROL;

EID: 85015057027     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2016.2625779     Document Type: Article

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