A High Efficiency Single-stage Current Source Inverter for Photovoltaic Applications
Conference: Intelec 2013 - 35th International Telecommunications Energy Conference, SMART POWER AND EFFICIENCY
10/13/2013 - 10/17/2013 at Hamburg, Deutschland
Proceedings: Intelec 2013
Pages: 6Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Shawky, Ahmed; Shier, Ahmed; Orabi, Mohamed (APEARC, Aswan University, Aswan 81542, Egypt)
Qahouq, Jaber A. Abu (Department of Electrical and Computer Eng., The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487, USA)
Youssef, Mohamed (ECSE Department, UOIT, Oshawa, ON, Canada)
Abstract:
This paper presents a high efficient and reliable single-phase single-stage inverter suitable for photovoltaic application. The proposed inverter basically is a current source boost inverter (CSBI) with a modification in the power stage. In addition, a new switching pattern for current source inverter modulation is also proposed. These features increase the efficiency and reliability by using the minimal number of switches in every state (charging and discharging state). Maximum power point tracker (MPPT) is also considered to manage the maximum power of the AC modules using perturb and observe (P&O) algorithm. Finally, simulation results are presented to provide the proof of concept with a detailed performance comparison to the latest literature topologies.