Improved PV Inverter Operating Range Using a Miniboost
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Abstract
In the past two decades, the operating voltage of photovoltaic (PV) installation has increased in order to reduce current ratings and system installation costs. Such a large number of PV panels in series (e.g., 1000-1500 V systems) lead to wide variations of PV voltage due undesirable effects such as shading, soiling/dust, aging, and hot surface temperature. A partial shade would normally shut down solar inverters, unless a boost stage is added to the system input to ensure a proper dc-link operating voltage for the inverter. A boost input stage can double the input voltage operating range to extract maximum power under any possible shading and temperature condition. In this paper, a new PV string boost topology arrangement is proposed in the form of a miniboost used for three-phase grid-connected converters. The string miniboost increases the dc voltage range to extend power extraction under shading and low irradiance conditions and only requires to process a fraction of the rated power. The proposed cost-effective solution is further improved by using the inverter peak power envelope at boundary operation, resulting in expanded energy extraction beyond existing techniques. A design procedure to optimally size the miniboost and the peak-power envelope is presented along with a comparative analysis, under different irradiance levels, to illustrate the advantages in energy extraction obtained with the proposed PV string miniboost solution under low voltage and boundary operation. Furthermore, improved efficiency operation schemes and issues of common-mode current are discussed, and three mitigation design techniques intended for three-phase, three-level inverter transformerless topology are presented. Simulations and experimental results using a dual miniboost dc-dc stage and three-phase three-level neutral point clamped inverter are presented to validate the proposed dc-bus extension range and system design.
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
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