Power electronic converters for solar photovoltaic systems / Ashok Kumar, S. Albert Alexander, Madhuvanthani Rajendran.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kumar, Ashok, author.

Albert Alexander, S., author.

Rajendran, Madhuvanthani, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electric current converters.

Photovoltaic power systems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (406 pages)

Place of Publication:

London, England : Academic Press, [2021]

Summary:

Power Electronic Converters for Solar Photovoltaic Systems provides design and implementation procedures for power electronic converters and advanced controllers to improve standalone and grid environment solar photovoltaics performance. Sections cover performance and improvement of solar photovoltaics under various conditions with the aid of intelligent controllers, allowing readers to better understand the nuances of power electronic converters for renewable energy systems. With algorithm development and real-time implementation procedures, this reference is useful for those interested in power electronics for performance improvement in distributed energy resources, design of advanced controllers, and measurement of critical parameters surrounding renewable energy systems. By providing a complete solution for performance improvement in solar PV with novel control techniques, this book will appeal to researchers and engineers working in power electronic converters, renewable energy, and power quality.

Contents:

Front Cover

Power Electronic Converters for Solar Photovoltaic Systems

Copyright

Contents

Authors biography

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1

Inverter topologies for solar PV

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Single-stage DC-AC converter

1.2.1 Inverter and its classifications

1.2.2 Voltage source inverter

1.2.3 Single-phase full-bridge inverter with R load

1.2.4 Pulse width modulation

1.2.5 Unipolar pulse width modulation inverter

1.2.6 Performance parameters

1.3 Line-commutated photovoltaic inverter

1.3.1 Types of commutated inverters

1.3.2 Filters and reactive power compensation

1.3.3 Input voltage clamping of inverter

1.3.4 Advantages of line-commutated inverter

1.3.5 Analysis of line-commutated inverter

1.3.6 Inverter control

1.4 Self-commutated photovoltaic inverter with line frequency transformer

1.4.1 Selection of snubber capacitor

1.5 Grid-tie inverters

1.5.1 Types of grid-tie inverters

1.6 Inverter with high-frequency core-based transformer

1.7 Half-bridge zero-voltage state converters

1.7.1 Simulation

1.8 H-bridge inverter

1.9 Summary

Suggested reading

2

Multilevel inverter topologies for solar PV

2.1 Introduction

2.1.1 Multilevel inverter

2.1.1.1 Topology of multilevel inverters

2.1.1.1.1 Diode-clamped inverter

2.1.1.1.2 Capacitor-clamped inverter

2.1.1.1.3 Cascaded H-bridge inverter

2.1.1.2 Multilevel cascaded H-bridge inverters-with equal voltages

2.1.2 Cascaded multilevel H-bridge inverters for solar PV

2.1.3 Modulation techniques

2.1.3.1 Vertical distribution of carriers

2.1.3.2 Horizontal distribution of carriers

2.1.4 Flying capacitor multilevel inverter

2.1.4.1 Seven-level capacitor-clamped inverter

2.2 Comparison of multilevel inverters

2.3 Reduced-order multilevel inverter

2.3.1 Modular inverter configuration

2.3.2 Binary mode

2.3.3 Trinary mode

2.3.4 Modular multilevel inverter

2.4 Summary

References

3

Advanced multilevel inverter topologies

3.1 Switched battery boost multilevel inverter

3.2 Quasi Z-source cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter

3.3 Switched capacitor multilevel inverter

3.4 String inverter

3.4.1 Breaking down string inverters

3.4.2 Power quality improvement

3.4.3 Reasons for string inverters in utility-scale photovoltaic

3.4.4 Advantages of string inverters

3.5 Multistring inverter

3.5.1 Single-phase multistring five-level inverter

Further reading

4

Emerging inverter topologies

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Types of inverter

4.2.1 String inverters

4.2.1.1 Multistring inverter

4.2.2 Microinverters

4.2.3 Battery inverters

4.2.4 Central inverters

4.3 Classification of transformerless inverter topologies

4.3.1 H4 topology

4.3.2 H5 topology

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780128227503

0128227508

OCLC:

1203121176