• DocumentCode
    2227575
  • Title

    A passive snubber circuit for flyback microinverters in solar energy systems

  • Author

    Mukherjee, Arjun ; Pahlevaninezhad, Majid ; Moschopoulos, Gerry

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    17-21 March 2013
  • Firstpage
    3236
  • Lastpage
    3240
  • Abstract
    A low cost technique for improving the efficiency of a basic dc-ac flyback microinverter is proposed in the paper. The proposed efficiency improving technique is based on a simple snubber, consisting of just a few passive elements. In the paper, the flyback microinverter with the passive snubber is presented, the modes of operation of the converter are discussed and analyzed and the design of the converter with the passive snubber is reviewed. Experimental results obtained from a lab prototype are presented as well.
  • Keywords
    DC-AC power convertors; invertors; passive networks; snubbers; solar power stations; DC-AC flyback microinverter; passive snubber circuit; solar energy systems;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), 2013 Twenty-Eighth Annual IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Long Beach, CA
  • ISSN
    1048-2334
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-4354-1
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1048-2334
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/APEC.2013.6520763
  • Filename
    6520763