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 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...

Here in this paper, the boost inverter topology is utilized as a building block for a single phase grid connected fuel cell (FC) system presenting low cost and compactness. In addition, the recommended system incorporates battery based energy storage and a dc-dc bidirectional converter to support the slow dynamics of the FC. The single phase boost converter is voltage mode maintained and low fr...

This paper proposes a single-phase seven-level inverter for grid-connected photovoltaic systems, with a novel pulse width-modulated (PWM) control scheme. Three reference signals that are identical to each other with an offset that is equivalent to the amplitude of the triangular carrier signal were used to generate the PWM signals. The inverter is capable of producing seven levels of output-vol...

6.1 INTRODUCTION The previous chapters have discussed the development of the MPPT algorithm and the control of the DC-DC converter in a standalone PV system. A grid-connected PV system is composed of a photovoltaic array, DC-DC converter, DC link capacitor, single phase DC-AC inverter, filter inductor, power grid, and non-linear load. The grid interconnection of a PV power generation system has...

This paper presents the implementation of Single Phase 7 level Multilevel DC link (MLDCL) Inverter with Half Bridge Cell topology. For N level inverter, (N-1)/2 half bridge cells are required with the same number of voltage sources. In this inverter topology, 3 Half Bridge Cells are used along with 3 voltage sources, each have 100V DC. These half bridges are connected in series to form a Multil...

Multi-level inverter technology has emerged recently as a very important alternative in the area of high-power medium-voltage energy control. In this paper, the most important topologies like diode-clamped inverter (neutral-point clamped), capacitor-clamped (flying capacitor), and cascaded multi cell with separate dc sources. In this paper, we proposed a new multi-level inverter topology based ...

Solid rotor alternator is of great importance at high ratings for generation of electric power as they can with stand huge centrifugal forces developed in the alternator. When a non liner load is connected to such an alternator network it invariably injects harmonics into the system which becomes a power quality issue. In order to compensate for the harmonic content a shunt active filter is con...

This research proposes the use of hardware emulation for inverter plants for the first time. This results in a new low cost, safe and robust solution for teaching control strategies for power electronics inverter circuits, composed of a digital controller (DSP or FPGA) connected to the inverter “hardware emulation circuit”. The inverter dynamical behavior is emulated by cheap operational amplif...