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Overview of Industrial Inverters for Photovoltaic Applications

Author(s):

Mr. Nathgosavi Kiran M., Rajrambapu Institute of Technology, Rajaramnagar

Keywords

String Inverter, Multistring Inverter, Central Topology, AC modular Topology, PV system.

Abstract

As the growth of India is goes on increases rapidly power demand is also increases. To meet this power demand it is not good to only depend on the available power sources such as dam cola power plant etc. On the other hand there is huge development in renewable energy sources has been done. So one solution to fulfill power demand is to interconnect renewable energy sources with grid. To interconnect renewable sources with grid power converter plays an important role. This paper presents the overview of industrial inverters for photovoltaic application. What are the conventional topologies are present that introduce in section II and advance inverter topologies such as ac-dc and dc-dc are introduced in section III.

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Paper ID: GRDJEV02I010034
Published in: Volume : 2, Issue : 1
Publication Date: 2017-01-01
Page(s): 18 - 25

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