A Single-Phase Grid-Connected Inverter by Utilizing Ready-Made PWM Power IC

Author

Hayashi, Kentaro ; Koizumi, Hirotaka ; Ohashi, Yasuo ; Kurokawa, Kosuke

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Tokyo Univ. of Agric. & Technol.

Volume

2

fYear

2006

fDate

9-13 July 2006

Firstpage

1138

Lastpage

1142

Abstract

For popularization of photovoltaic (PV) systems, it is important not only approach to cost reduction, but also approach to mass production. As one of the approaches, this paper presents the inverter by utilizing ready-made power integrated circuit. The integrated circuit (IC), audio power amplifier, has been developed and mass-produced with the PWM switching technique recently. Most of photovoltaic (PV) inverters are based on the PWM technique. The proposed inverter has possibility of the dramatically cost reduction and mass production. Availability of the application of the IC to the PV inverter is shown by experimental results

Keywords

PWM invertors; cost reduction; photovoltaic power systems; power amplifiers; power integrated circuits; PV systems; PWM switching technique; audio power amplifier; cost reduction; mass production; photovoltaic inverters; photovoltaic systems; ready-made PWM power IC; ready-made power integrated circuit; single-phase grid-connected inverter; Application specific integrated circuits; Costs; Mass production; Photovoltaic systems; Power amplifiers; Power integrated circuits; Pulse width modulation; Pulse width modulation inverters; Solar power generation; Switching circuits;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics, 2006 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Montreal, Que.

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0496-7

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0497-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISIE.2006.295797

Filename

4078247