New Soft-Switching Current Source Inverter for Photovoltaic Power System

  • Han Byung-Moon (School of Electrical & Information Control Engineering Myongji Univ.) ;
  • Kim Hee-Joong (School of Electrical & Information Control Engineering Myongji Univ.) ;
  • Baek Seung-Taek (School of Electrical & Information Control Engineering Myongji Univ.)
  • Published : 2001.10.01

Abstract

This paper proposes a soft-switching current -source inverter for photovoltaic power system, which has an H-type switched-capacitor module composed of two semiconductor switches, two diodes, and an L-C resonant circuit. The operation of proposed system was analyzed by a theoretical approach with equivalent circuits and verified by computer simulations with SPICE and experimental works with a hardware prototype. The proposed system could be effectively applied for the power converter of photovoltaic power system interconnected with the power system.

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