Title
A new method for connecting of photovoltaics modules in dc microgrid
Date Issued
01 January 2013
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Federal University of Santa Catarina
Publisher(s)
IEEE Computer Society
Abstract
The objective of this article is to present a new method for linking of photovoltaic modules in dc microgrids to power supply to a battery bank or to a load. The proposed system is comprises by two stage of conversion. The first stage performs MPPT of photovoltaic module. The second stage is comprises by buck-boost converter based on the three-state commutation cell (3SCC). This converter is used to divider a main voltage bus into even voltage sub-bus. This first advantage is voltage reduction of main bus without transformer, under these circunstances increases overall system efficiency and decrease the voltage stress on the switch in the first stage. Other advantage is that the 3SCC when employed to this purpose allows using smaller filters as the filters operates at twice the switching frequency. Furthermore, in continuous conduction mode the 3SCC uses 50 % of duty cycle, providing a more reduction of filter sizes. On the other hand, this paper shows that an appropriate drive of switching transistors provides immunities to saturation problem of commutation cell transformer. Simulations results are shown proving the feasibility of the proposed system. Experimental results will be shown in the final work. © 2013 IEEE.
Start page
650
End page
657
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería eléctrica, Ingeniería electrónica
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84899428656
Source
2013 Brazilian Power Electronics Conference, COBEP 2013 - Proceedings
Resource of which it is part
2013 Brazilian Power Electronics Conference, COBEP 2013 - Proceedings
ISSN of the container
2165-0454
ISBN of the container
978-1-4799-0272-9
Conference
2013 12th Brazilian Power Electronics Conference, COBEP 2013 27 October 2013 through 31 October 2013
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