Suitable power transformers for solar farm applications

Author

Khemmook, Panya ; Suwan-ngam, Warachart ; Khomfoi, Surin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., King Mongkut´s Inst. of Technol. Ladkrabang, Bangkok, Thailand

fYear

2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper presents a suitable power transformer for solar farm applications. Losses and economic value of the proposed transformer are compared to those of the standard transformer, for the application to a 1 MW solar farm, to help the solar farm owners select the best solution for their business. In this paper, a power electronics transformer called a Solid State Transformer (SST) is also proposed for the application to the solar farm because of its light weight, small size and varieties of functions. There are no core losses during no operation period which is about 15-16 hours a day.

Keywords

losses; power generation economics; power transformers; solar power stations; SST; economic value; power 1 MW; power electronics transformer; solar farm applications; solid state transformer; Core loss; DC-AC power converters; Inverters; Low voltage; Monitoring; Switching loss; Voltage control; power electronic transformer; solar farm; solid state transformer; transformer;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical Engineering/Electronics, Computer, Telecommunications and Information Technology (ECTI-CON), 2015 12th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hua Hin

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECTICon.2015.7206984

Filename

7206984