Title

Efficiency Improvement of Grid-Tied Inverters at Low Input Power Using Pulse-Skipping Control Strategy

Authors

Authors

H. B. Hu; W. Al-Hoor; N. H. Kutkut; I. Batarseh;Z. J. Shen

Comments

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Abbreviated Journal Title

IEEE Trans. Power Electron.

Keywords

Efficiency; inverter; pulse skipping; renewable sources; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic

Abstract

A pulse-skipping control strategy is proposed to improve efficiency of grid-tied inverters at light loads. To maximize the efficiency of pulse-skipping operation mode, three key parameters are identified and optimized based on a loss model, which is developed to find the maximal efficiency points using a 3-D search technique. A 200-W prototype inverter was setup to verify the proposed control strategy. The experimental results show that the proposed pulse-skipping control strategy greatly improves the inverter's efficiency at light loads and match the simulation results fairly well, thus, validating the proposed optimization method for pulse-skipping operation.

Journal Title

Ieee Transactions on Power Electronics

Volume

25

Issue/Number

12

Publication Date

1-1-2010

Document Type

Article

DOI Link

http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tpel.2010.2080690

Language

English

First Page

3129

Last Page

3138

WOS Identifier

WOS:000208284400002

ISSN

0885-8993

Recommended Citation

"Efficiency Improvement of Grid-Tied Inverters at Low Input Power Using Pulse-Skipping Control Strategy" (2010). Faculty Bibliography 2010s. 268.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib2010/268