Author(s)

Ching-Ming Lai¹, Hsien-Peng You^2*

¹Department of Vehicle Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei city.
²UPE-Power Technology Co., Ltd., Taichung.

This paper proposes a single-stage inverter system with maximum power point tracking control (MPPT) applicable in low-power photovoltaic (PV) energy conversion systems. The proposed system is successfully implemented using a single digital signal processor (DSP) TMS320F2808. The proposed single-stage inverter system has the following features: 1) the ability to harvest the maximum PV power using two simple and effective current sampling methods; 2) flexible topology based on the positioning of DC link capacitor on the outside of the inverter bridge circuits; 3) reduced volume and higher efficiency than the conventional two-stage inverters, and 4) MPPT accuracy of 99.3% with overall efficiency of 90% under the full-load condition.

PV, Single-Stage Inverter, MPPT, DSP

Lai, C. and You, H. (2014) A High-Efficiency Single-Stage Low-Power Photovoltaic Inverter System with Maximum Power Point Tracking Control. Energy and Power Engineering, 6, 222-234. doi: 10.4236/epe.2014.69020.