DSP-controlled photovoltaic inverter for universal application in research and education

Author

Ishengoma, F. ; Schimpf, F. ; Norum, Lars

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Power Eng., Norwegian Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Trondheim, Norway

fYear

2011

fDate

19-23 June 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper presents a setup for a universal inverter board to be used for teaching and research on photovoltaic (PV) power systems. The control of power conversion components is done by a DSP which offers the advantage of great flexibility. Depending on the control strategy, the converter can be operated as a stand-alone PV system, hybrid PV system, grid-tie PV system and mixtures of these configurations. A description of the hardware and software setup is given and sub-modules to operate the board in different modes are presented.

Keywords

PWM invertors; digital signal processing chips; distributed power generation; hybrid power systems; photovoltaic power systems; power conversion; power engineering education; power generation control; power grids; teaching; DSP-controlled photovoltaic inverter; grid-tie PV system; hybrid PV system; microgrid; photovoltaic power system research; power conversion component control; stand-alone PV system; teaching; universal inverter board; Batteries; Battery charge measurement; Digital signal processing; Generators; Inverters; Pulse width modulation; Voltage measurement; Batteries; Converter; DSP; Digital control; Inverter; Microgrid; Photovoltaic; Pulse width modulation; Solar-home-system; grid-tied;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

PowerTech, 2011 IEEE Trondheim

Conference_Location

Trondheim

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8419-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-8417-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PTC.2011.6019266

Filename

6019266