Performance of Medium-Voltage DC-Bus PV System Architecture Utilizing High-Gain DC-DC Converter

IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 464-473

  Choi, Hyuntae ^a   Ciobotaru, Mihai ^a   Jang, Minsoo ^a   Agelidis, Vassilios G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

DC DC power converters; large scale systems; photovoltaic (PV) systems; power conversion

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS; HVDC POWER TRANSMISSION; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

DC-DC POWER CONVERTER; MEDIUM-VOLTAGE DC; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS; POINT OF COMMON COUPLING; POWER CONVERSION; SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; STEADY-STATE AND DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE; STEP UP TRANSFORMERS;

DC-DC CONVERTERS;

EID: 85027936071     PISSN: 19493029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSTE.2014.2382690     Document Type: Article

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