In today’s and future’s electrical power grid system, regenerative energy sources like photovoltaic (PV) power systems consisting of PV panels and grid-connected inverters are very popular in domestic as well as in commercial power plants. High competitive pressure among PV power system providers due to cut inverter’s costs can be observed. Therefore different technical approaches have to be ev...

-This paper is describing the recently introduced proportional-resonant (PR) controllers and their suitability for grid-connected converters current control. It is shown that the known shortcomings associated with PI controllers like steady-state error for single-phase converters and the need of decoupling for three-phase converters can be alleviated. Additionally, selective harmonic compensati...

In a conventional grid connected photovoltaic system employing centralized inverter with long strings connected across dc-link, the performance of the plant in terms of power generation and efficiency is not optimal especially during partial shading and/or panel mismatch conditions. To improve the power yield during such conditions, a splitmultistring configuration employing 3Level Neutral Poin...

This paper presents a single-phase five-level photovoltaic (PV) inverter topology for grid-connected PV systems with a novel pulse width-modulated (PWM) control scheme. Two reference signals identical to each other with an offset equivalent to the amplitude of the triangular carrier signal were used to generate PWM signals for the switches. The inverter offers much less total harmonic distortio...

Inverters designed using reduced active semiconductor devices can be of interest to the industry because of their lower cost and enhanced reliability linked to their less complex gating and control circuitries. In this paper a four switch three phase b-4 topology for the grid connected application in an effort to reduce the cost of the inverter is investigated. Admittedly, this topology warrant...

Digital control techniques for Boost Converter and PWM Inverter which have potential application for power transmission system. The study is done in the field of inverter topologies, which is used to interface a wind energy module to the power grid/load. The boost converter and inverter are developed with focus on low cost, high reliability and massproduction. The switching strategy to control ...

We give a conditional derivation of the inhomogeneous critical percolation manifold of the bow-tie lattice with five different probabilities, a problem that does not appear at first to fall into any known solvable class. Although our argument is mathematically rigorous only on a region of the manifold, we conjecture that the formula is correct over its entire domain, and we provide a non-rigoro...

The recent trend of distributed generation leads to several issues regarding power quality and energy efficiency. To meet the increased demand of electricity services and to increase service quality the current power grid structure should be controlled in such a way that distributed generation could be easily connected to it. The various services are becoming challenging concern to elegantly in...

This paper presents a three-phase grid-connected inverter designed for a 100kW photovoltaic power plant that features a maximum power point tracking (MPPT) scheme based on fuzzy logic. The whole system presented is simulated in Matlab. This fuzzy MPPT shows accurate and fast response, and is integrated in the inverter, so that a DC-DC converter is not needed. The inverter allows full control of...

A high efficiency and operating life of grid feeding solar photovoltaic (PV) inverters are demanded. Because of reduced dclink capacitor requirement, current source inverter (CSI) offers higher reliability than the voltage source based solar inverter. Nonetheless, conventional three-phase pulse width modulated (PWM) current source based solar inverter injects high earth leakage current into the...