Power Electronics Architectures and Associated Control for Efficient and Reliable Solar PV Systems
A special issue of Solar (ISSN 2673-9941).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2024) | Viewed by 21110
Special Issue Editors
Interests: energy harvesting; solar energy; power and energy architectures; energy conversion and storage; energy conversion and efficiency; maximum power point tracking techniques; energy management; DC-DC conversion; operation under faulty conditions; prognostics and diagnostics; fault tolerant operation
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Interests: solar systems; microgrid operation and control; power system analysis; power electronics; energy conversion
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are inviting submissions to a Special Issue of the journal Solar on the subject area of “Power Electronics Architectures and Associated Control for Efficient and Reliable Solar PV Systems”. Solar PV energy harvesting towards electrical power generation appears to be one of the best solutions that provides sufficient and clean electrical energy. Power electronic conversion greatly impacts the performances of the PV systems. In addition to power electronic architectures for conventional central, string and multistring configurations of PV modules, distributed module converter architectures are also increasingly investigated (DC-DC power optimizer, DC-AC microinverters, modular cascaded DC-DC converters, etc.). Differential power processing architectures are also addressed to mitigate mismatches in the series-connected modules of the PV systems. More, power electronics architectures with fault tolerant capabilities are also studied, to ensure the electrical power generation. In all these cases, the design of efficient and reliable power electronic converters attracts the scientific and industrial interests. For example, DC-DC converters and associated control methods are crucial to perform critical global targets in energy efficiency and fault tolerant operation.
Within this subject, this Special Issue is focused on conversion, control and power electronics architectures for monitoring an optimal and safe production of PV systems.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to:
- Isolated and non-isolated DC-DC converter architectures for PV systems;
- Modeling and control for optimal electrical energy production in PV systems;
- Design and optimization of efficient converters for PV systems;
- Multi-input DC-DC converters for PV systems with energy storage;
- Maximum power point tracking techniques;
- Differential power processing converter architectures in PV systems with mismatched modules;
- Distributed converter architectures at PV module level;
- Fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control of converter architectures for PV systems;
- PV systems with fault tolerant capabilities: power and energy architectures, energy management, advanced control method under healthy and faulty conditions, and islanded PV systems.
Prof. Dr. Philippe Poure
Prof. Dr. Shamsodin Taheri
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- power and energy architectures for PV systems
- power electronic converters for PV systems
- isolated and non-isolated DC-DC converters
- energy conversion and efficiency
- PV systems with mismatched modules
- energy management
- maximum power point tracking techniques
- fault tolerant operation of PV systems: fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control
- efficient and reliable converters under faulty conditions
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