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In this paper, the single-stage Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) control strategy for the Aalborg photovoltaic inverter is presented. Aalborg inverter has many advantages, such as high efficiency, wide range of input voltage, minimum voltage drop of the filtering inductors, etc. Nevertheless, it is essentially a “half-bridge” inverter with two input sources, where one source works in MPPT mode,...
Transformer-less single-phase grid-tied inverter is attractive due to low cost, high efficiency, and small size. However, leakage current and second-order ripple power have to be well dealt with. Because the leakage current is a potential threat for body safety and the ripple power will decrease overall efficiency and system reliability. Both issues become obstacles for practical applications. This...
This paper presents a power pulsation decoupling strategy for a two-stage single-phase photovoltaic (PV) inverter with film capacitor, which has small capacitance and large voltage ripple. Such large voltage ripple at DC bus is propagated to the PV array and decreases the maximum power point tracking (MPPT) efficiency. To maintain the MPPT efficiency, a new small-signal model which considers the DC...
Differential power processing (DPP) module integrated converters are developed to mitigate the effects of the mismatch losses in series connected photovoltaic (PV) strings. This paper focuses on the configurations used in various DPP converter topologies by categorizing them into two main classifications: 1) Maximum power point tracking configurations and 2) voltage balancing configurations. The implementation...
At present, the research on the quality of micro-grid power at home and abroad is still at the initial stage, which focuses on the study of the power quality characteristics of micro-sources. There is little research on the quality control of micro-grid power and the power quality adjustment device for microgrid. In particular, there is no literature on the power quality of the microgrids containing...
This paper focuses on the relevant content of the MVDC-connected photovoltaic system based on the modular cascaded structure. This paper proposes a new topology for the DC grid-connected photovoltaic system with a novel capacitor voltage balancing control strategy, including the module input power ratio feed forward and module capacitor voltage closed-loop control. The proposed control strategy is...
Recently, many high-efficiency buck-boost typed inverters for the photovoltaic (PV) grid-connection applications have been proposed. However, the PV grid-connection inverters are in idle state at nighttime or low insolation. Based on green energy demand, the presented work proposes a high-efficiency bidirectional buck-cascaded buck-boost (BuCBB) inverter. It is developed via the connection of a bidirectional...
This paper presents a family of cost-effective magnetically-coupled impedance source inverters for renewable energy systems. The inverters are derived from magnetically-coupled impedance source networks, featuring low cost and no ground leakage current when used in PV system. The numbers of required semi-conductor switches is reduced. More important, the elimination of leakage currents makes it particularly...
In this paper, a non-isolated high gain switched inductor dc-dc multilevel cuk converter for photovoltaic applications is presented, which combines switched inductor with a voltage multiplier. By doing so, the conversion ratio is increased. High voltage gain cannot be possible if using traditional cuk converter. The output voltage can be boosted negatively by using a combination of capacitors and...
A single phase transformer-less inverter is introduced in this paper. The negative polarities of the input voltage and output terminal have common ground. Therefore, the leakage current problem that is common in PV systems is eliminated naturally. In addition, the proposed inverter has fewer components compared with its counterparts and only one switch conducts during the active states which enhance...
When photovoltaic systems are used as the energy source to start motors, the resultant voltage drop can be too large to enable effective starting. An active filter circuit using inductor energy storage is described, which can be used to maintain the output voltage. Simulation and experimental results are shown.
This paper contains the findings regarding the evaluation of a standalone photovoltaic, where the photovoltaic voltage is inverted through a single stage boost DC/AC inverter, which is controlled by a double loop control. This document shows the results of the evaluation of reliability, efficiency and technical performance of the system in normal and specific operation. Meanwhile, the control used...
In this paper, a three-level Boost (TLB) converter maximum power point tracking (MPPT) control strategy for a two-stage photovoltaic (PV) system based on model predictive control (MPC) is proposed. This method realizes fast and precise control through establishment of a prediction model and minimization of a cost function. In the work, first a three-level predictive model for the boost converter is...
This work provides the guidelines to calculate the size of the DC-link capacitor to contribute with additional energy - for a short period of time - than the photovoltaic panel can supply under normal operating conditions. First, a model of a three-phase electric generation system is used that combines photovoltaic panels and an inverter with an LCL filter at network side. In addition, a control algorithm...
As days go, renewable energy resources getting lot of consideration due to the growing demand of energy. In view of all the renewable energy resources, solar energy is very prominent because sunlight is obtainable all over the year. This research work concentrates on performance and reliability enhancement of grid-connected Solar Photo Voltaic (SPV) power conversion system with a prominent implementation...
A fundamental challenge wireless microsystems face is size, and in consequence, lifetime because tiny batteries exhaust quickly. Although small fuel cells and atomic sources store more energy than lithium-ion batteries and super capacitors, they source less power, so they cannot power as many functions. Small batteries and capacitors, however, cannot sustain life for long. Thankfully, the environment...
In recent years, photovoltaic (PV) systems have been widely used for power generation and renewable energy. However, a lot of electromagnetic interferences (EMI), which will influence the normal performance and operation of other electrical devices, have been generated seriously by the PV converter, especially the conducted EMI noises from 9kHz to 30MHz. To mitigate the conducted EMI noises, the topology...
With the development of renewable resource, the power generated by several renewable resources need to supply the load Simultaneously. Multi-input DC/DC converter is proposed for this application. In order to stabilize the power generation of renewable energy, energy storage system is widely used. Generally, the storage system is the intermediate links, which supply the power to load under the condition...
This paper presents the operation of a grid-tied photovoltaic power generator considering a two stages configuration for active power injection. A Neutral Point Clamped Inverter (NPC Inverter) was used for the DC-AC conversion and a DC-DC Boost converter complemented the system configuration. The control system includes the following loops: a maximum power point tracking algorithm, a DC bus voltage...
The popularity of renewable energy resources increasing day by day. Among the renewable energy technologies photovoltaic technology is the most famous one because of its cheapness in cost and availability. A high gain converter based on MPPT is proposed here. P&O algorithm is used in MPPT which enables to track the point of maximum power. The high gain converter consisting of a coupled inductor...
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