• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 1997.07a
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• pp.386-392
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• 1997

Recently, according to developing industry and life style, power consumption have been increased year after year. Currently these much power demand from power consumer is weakening the allowable power reserve margin in summer. As one of the remedies about this problem, the small scale utility interactive photovoltaic system(UIPVS) is considered for auxiliary power source. For this system one of problems to be solved technically, system operating power factor. Generally in case of small scale system, system is operated in unity power factor. But this unity power factor operating mode decrease power factor viewed from utility because UIPVS supply active power to utility. Therefore this paper propose UIPVS with power factor correcting function and this system is analyzed.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 1999.07a
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• pp.591-594
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• 1999

The application field of photovoltaic system has been increased widely. In the application of photovoltaic system, the utility interactive photovoltaic system(UIPVS) has benefits of not only the home energy saving in domestic system but also reduction of peak power which threaten the capacity of power plant equipment when the maximum power consumption is occurred in daytime. This paper represents the effect of the nonlinear AC load which connected to the UIPVS with parallel connection and introduces the active power filtering(APF) techniques to the UIPVS for the reactive power compensation. The enhancement of source side power quality using APF algorithm is verified using simulation.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.199-210
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• 2003

In this paper, the new Islanding detection method is studied for utility interactive photovoltaic system(UIPVS). It describes the brief of UIPV system and the features of islanding phenomenon. The new islanding detection method for improving the detection characteristics, HCIM(Harmonic Current Injection Method), is proposed and analyzed. The impedance curve of AC load is derived from the complex power equation for testing Islanding detection features. The proposed detection method and the derivation of islanding condition we verified by the simulation with ACSL and the laboratorial experiments.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.171-177
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• 2002

The Photovoltaic systems with solar cell way Provide electrical energy to the utility/consumers, which are becoming one of the promising energy substitutes. The photovoltaic system can be classified into two types : One is the stand-alone type, and the other utility interactive one. The latter can return the generated power to the utility, but the former can't. The utility interactive systems are so valuable for peak power cut in summer season. In the photovoltaic systems the maximum power point tracking (MPPT) has been studied for the increase of the generating energy of the photovoltaic system. There are many control methods of MPPT, but a new MPPT algorithm is proposed to overcome the disadvantages of the conventional ones, and as a result the proposed method enables to improve both tracking ability and generating efficiency of photo voltaic system without DC chopper.