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High-Efficiency Isolated Photovoltaic Microinverter Using Wide-Band Gap Switches for Standalone and Grid-Tied Applications

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  • Yu-Chen Liu

    (Department of Electrical Engineering, National Ilan University, No. 1, Section 1, Shennong Road, Yilan 260, Taiwan)

  • Ming-Cheng Chen

    (Department of Electronic Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, No. 43, Section 4, Keelung Road, Da’an District, Taipei 106, Taiwan)

  • Chun-Yu Yang

    (Department of Electronic Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, No. 43, Section 4, Keelung Road, Da’an District, Taipei 106, Taiwan)

  • Katherine A. Kim

    (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, 50 UNIST-gil Ulju-gun, Ulsan 44919, Korea)

  • Huang-Jen Chiu

    (Department of Electronic Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, No. 43, Section 4, Keelung Road, Da’an District, Taipei 106, Taiwan)

Abstract

An isolated photovoltaic micro-inverter for standalone and grid-tied applications is designed and implemented to achieve high efficiency. System configuration and design considerations, including the proposed active-clamp forward-flyback resonant converter for the DC-DC stage and a dual-frequency full-bridge inverter for the DC-AC stage, are analyzed and discussed. A prototype microinverter system is built and tested. Experimental results verify the feasibility of the proposed system, which achieves 95% power conversion efficiency at full load.

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  • Yu-Chen Liu & Ming-Cheng Chen & Chun-Yu Yang & Katherine A. Kim & Huang-Jen Chiu, 2018. "High-Efficiency Isolated Photovoltaic Microinverter Using Wide-Band Gap Switches for Standalone and Grid-Tied Applications," Energies, MDPI, vol. 11(3), pages 1-15, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:11:y:2018:i:3:p:569-:d:134975
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