Inverter Operation Mode of a PhotoVoltaic Cascaded H-Bridge Battery Charger
The paper deals with a grid-connected single-phase battery charger integrated with photovoltaic generators (PVGs). The circuit topology consists of a multilevel architecture based on a Cascaded H-Bridge (CHB) rectifier. Its main task is to charge the batteries, primarily from the PVGs, by also assur...
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| author | Marino Coppola Pierluigi Guerriero Adolfo Dannier Santolo Daliento Andrea Del Pizzo |
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| description | The paper deals with a grid-connected single-phase battery charger integrated with photovoltaic generators (PVGs). The circuit topology consists of a multilevel architecture based on a Cascaded H-Bridge (CHB) rectifier. Its main task is to charge the batteries, primarily from the PVGs, by also assuring to keep their state-of-charge (SOC) balanced. Nevertheless, when the battery SOC overcomes a predefined upper limit, beyond which the charging process could be interrupted, the available PV power can no longer be transferred to the batteries. Therefore, to avoid an undesired curtailment of PV power production, this latter can be supplied to the grid by inverting the system operation. The paper shows how to achieve this result by implementing a dedicated control action based on a multi-step procedure. Numerical investigations are carried out on a 19-level CHB converter implemented in the PLECS environment to validate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed control technique. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-162aa1c9006b45609c9bb70500c36a542023-11-18T16:28:32ZengMDPI AGEnergies1996-10732023-06-011613497210.3390/en16134972Inverter Operation Mode of a PhotoVoltaic Cascaded H-Bridge Battery ChargerMarino Coppola0Pierluigi Guerriero1Adolfo Dannier2Santolo Daliento3Andrea Del Pizzo4Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, University of Napoli Federico II, Via Claudio 21, 80125 Napoli, ItalyDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, University of Napoli Federico II, Via Claudio 21, 80125 Napoli, ItalyDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, University of Napoli Federico II, Via Claudio 21, 80125 Napoli, ItalyDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, University of Napoli Federico II, Via Claudio 21, 80125 Napoli, ItalyDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, University of Napoli Federico II, Via Claudio 21, 80125 Napoli, ItalyThe paper deals with a grid-connected single-phase battery charger integrated with photovoltaic generators (PVGs). The circuit topology consists of a multilevel architecture based on a Cascaded H-Bridge (CHB) rectifier. Its main task is to charge the batteries, primarily from the PVGs, by also assuring to keep their state-of-charge (SOC) balanced. Nevertheless, when the battery SOC overcomes a predefined upper limit, beyond which the charging process could be interrupted, the available PV power can no longer be transferred to the batteries. Therefore, to avoid an undesired curtailment of PV power production, this latter can be supplied to the grid by inverting the system operation. The paper shows how to achieve this result by implementing a dedicated control action based on a multi-step procedure. Numerical investigations are carried out on a 19-level CHB converter implemented in the PLECS environment to validate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed control technique.https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/16/13/4972cascaded H-bridgePV generatorsbattery chargerinverter operation mode |
| spellingShingle | Marino Coppola Pierluigi Guerriero Adolfo Dannier Santolo Daliento Andrea Del Pizzo Inverter Operation Mode of a PhotoVoltaic Cascaded H-Bridge Battery Charger Energies cascaded H-bridge PV generators battery charger inverter operation mode |
| title | Inverter Operation Mode of a PhotoVoltaic Cascaded H-Bridge Battery Charger |
| title_full | Inverter Operation Mode of a PhotoVoltaic Cascaded H-Bridge Battery Charger |
| title_fullStr | Inverter Operation Mode of a PhotoVoltaic Cascaded H-Bridge Battery Charger |
| title_full_unstemmed | Inverter Operation Mode of a PhotoVoltaic Cascaded H-Bridge Battery Charger |
| title_short | Inverter Operation Mode of a PhotoVoltaic Cascaded H-Bridge Battery Charger |
| title_sort | inverter operation mode of a photovoltaic cascaded h bridge battery charger |
| topic | cascaded H-bridge PV generators battery charger inverter operation mode |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/16/13/4972 |
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