Title
Current-Fed Partial Power Converter for Photovoltaic Applications in DC Microgrids
Abstract
Renewable energy sources like photovoltaic (PV) panels and battery energy storage are usually connected to the DC microgrids through dedicated full power DC/DC converters. Alternative to the conventional solutions is partial power converter (PPC) technology, where only a fraction of energy flow is handled by a DC/DC converter, and most of the energy flows from its source to a DC grid directly. PPC has several advantages over traditional full power converters: low power losses, lower cost, and higher power density. The proposed current-fed isolated full bridge buck-boost topology has shown excellent characteristics in PPC configuration, interfacing such nonlinear energy sources as PV panels. For experimental verification of PV partial power interface converter into a 350 V DC microgrid a 3.3 kW laboratory prototype with current-fed isolated full bridge buck-boost topology was designed, built, and tested. Experiments have proven the feasibility and benefits of PPC converter with proposed topology in DC microgrids.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/IECON48115.2021.9589899
IECON 2021 - 47TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS SOCIETY
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
partial power converter, current-fed DC/DC converter, DC microgrids, renewable energy, PV interface converter
Conference
1553-572X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tanel Jalakas100.34
Roman Kosenko211.72
Andrii Chub301.01
Dmitri Vinnikov49224.56
Andrei Blinov501.35