Distributed maximum power point tracking of photovoltaic arrays: Novel approach and system analysis

By Nicola Femia, G. Lisi, Giovanni Petrone, Giovanni Spagnuolo, Massimo Vitelli. IEEE transactions on industrial electronics (1982. Print), 2008

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Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Control Issues in Single-Stage Photovoltaic Systems: MPPT, Current and Voltage Control (2012, methodology): “The current/voltage control reference signal is provided by the input power control which is composed of a MPPT algorithm and a DC voltage controller.”
A Universal Selective Harmonic Elimination Method for High-Power Inverters (2011, background): “These situations have provided great opportunities for the implementations of power inverters in power electronics [5-20].”
Improved particle swarm optimization for maximum power point tracking in photovoltaic module arrays (2015, background): “Other experts and scholars have proposed replacing the single module array of maximum power point trackers that have been used traditionally with multiple-tracker architecture [25].”
Optimal Photovoltaic Array Reconfiguration to Reduce Partial Shading Losses (2013, background): “Moreover, it requires more complicated control architectures [14]–[16].”
Isolated Buck–Boost DC/DC Converters Suitable for Wide Input-Voltage Range (2011, unknown): “For nonisolated low- and medium-power applications, the buck, boost, cuk, and buck–boost topologies can be employed as the front-end dc/dc converter [22], [23].”
Stability study of variable step size incremental conductance/impedance MPPT for PV systems (2011, background): “INTRODUCTION HE ever-increasing demand for low-cost and growing concern about environmental issues has generated enormous interest in utilization of non-conventional energy sources such as the solar energy [1], [2].”
Parallel-Connected Solar PV System to Address Partial and Rapidly Fluctuating Shadow Conditions (2009, background): “that, for high-voltage applications, some recent works [4]–[6], [27], [28] have demonstrated uses of parallel-connected PV modules (rather than cells) with advanced power electronics to”
Electrical PV Array Reconfiguration Strategy for Energy Extraction Improvement in Grid-Connected PV Systems (2009, background): “Depending on the number of PV generators, ac-module inverters [7], [8], string and multistring converters [9], [10], or cascaded full-bridge multilevel [11] topologies are some of the power processing architectures supporting this strategy.”