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39
th IEEE PHOTOVOLTAIC SPECIALISTS CONFERENCE
Area 9 - Orals
8:30 - 10:00
AM
MR 24
Advanced Power Electronics for Optimized PV
Performance
Chair: Robert Erickson, Chris Deline
8:30
(930)
Power Rating and Performance of
Differential Power Processing Submodule
Power Converters Under Various Mismatch
Scenarios.
Chris Deline
1
,
Carlos Olalla
2
,
Daniel
Clement
2
,
Dragan Maksimovic
2
1
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden,
CO, USA,
2
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO,
USA
8:45
(931)
Field Installation and Evaluation of a
20
kW Rooftop PV System Using 3.5kW String
Level MPPT DC/DC Converters and a Central
Inverter.
Ahmed Elasser
1
,
Mohammed Agamy
2
,
Maja Harfman-Todorovic
1
,
Song Chi
1
,
Adam
McCann
1
,
Brian Baxter
3
,
Li Zhang
1
,
Brian Smith
3
,
Lei Wang
1
,
Fengfeng Tao
1
,
Bex Thomas
1
,
Frank
Mueller
1
,
Raj Bahadur
1
,
John Dodge
4
,
Sigfriedo
Gonzales
5
,
Armando Fresquez
5
1
GE Global Research, Niskayuna, NY, USA,
2
Univeristy of British Columbia, Kelowna, BC,
Canada,
3
GE Power&Water, Schenectady, NY,
USA,
4
GE Energy Management, Rotterdam, NY,
USA,
5
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque,
NM, USA
9:00
(932)
Lifetime Testing of Metallized Thin Film
Capacitors for Inverter Applications
Jack D. Flicker, Robert J. Kaplar, Matthew
Marinella, Jennifer E. Granata.
Sandia National
Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA
9:15
(933)
Oscillator-Based Inverter Control for
Islanded Three-Phase Microgrids
Brian B Johnson
1
,
James L. Cale
2
,
Sairaj V.
Dhople
3
,
Philip T. Krein
1
.
1
University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA,
2
National
Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA,
3
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
9:30
(934)
Measured Module Performance Variation
and the Opportunity for Distributed Power
Electronics: Analysis of 27 PV Arrays in the
Southwestern U.S.
Sara MacAlpine
1
,
Chris
Deline
2
,
Michael Brandemuehl
1
,
Robert Erickson
1
1
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA,
2
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden,
CO, USA
9:45
(935)
A Robust, Self-Calibrating Model for
Maximum Power Point Tracking and Hot Spot
Suppression.
Sorin A. Spanoche
1
,
Behnam
Behziz
2
.
1
Array Power Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, USA,
2
San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, USA
TECHNICAL PROGRAM
