Comments on “An Efficient Partial Power Processing DC/DC Converter for Distributed PV Architectures”

Author

Suntio, Teuvo ; Kuperman, Alon

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Tampere Univ. of Technol., Tampere, Finland

Volume

30

Issue

4

fYear

2015

fDate

Apr-15

Firstpage

2372

Lastpage

2372

Abstract

In this paper, “An Efficient Partial Power Processing DC/DC Converter for Distributed PV Architectures” by Agamy et al. (IEEE Trans. Power Electron., vol. 29, no. 2, Feb. 2014), a dc-dc converter for distributed photovoltaic plant architectures, capable of performing series-type partial power processing under maximum power point control was proposed and tested for various performance parameters. The purpose of this note is correcting (IEEE Trans. Power Electron., vol. 29, no. 2, Feb. 2014) by proving that while the overall operation and results are technically correct, the proposed converter is actually a boost stage performing full rather than partial power processing.

Keywords

DC-DC power convertors; distributed power generation; photovoltaic power systems; distributed PV architectures; distributed photovoltaic plant architectures; partial power processing DC/DC converter; power point control; series-type partial power processing; DC-DC power converters; Distributed power generation; Photovoltaic systems; Voltage control; DC???DC conversion; distributed photovoltaic plant architectures; partial power processing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Power Electronics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8993

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TPEL.2014.2327018

Filename

6873346