Advances in Grid-Connected Photovoltaic Power Conversion Systems - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Yongheng Yang received the B.Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering and Automation in 2009 from Northwestern Polytechnical University, China and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2014 from Aalborg University, Denmark. He was a postgraduate with Southeast University, China, from 2009 to 2011. In 2013, he was a Visiting Scholar at Texas A&M University, USA. Since 2014, he has been with the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, where currently he is an Assistant Professor. His research interests are focused on grid integration of renewable energy systems, power converter design, analysis and control, harmonics identification and mitigation, and reliability in power electronics. Dr. Yang has published more than 100 technical papers and co‐authored a book – Periodic Control of Power Electronic Converters (London, UK: IET, 2017). Dr. Yang is a Member of the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) Students and Young Professionals Committee, where he serves as the International Strategy Chair and responsible for the IEEE PELS Students and Young Professionals Activities. He served as a Guest Associate Editor of IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics and has also been invited as a Guest Editor of Applied Sciences.

Katherine A. Kim received the B.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, Needham, MA, in 2007. She received the M.S. and Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana‐Champaign, in 2011 and 2014, respectively. She has been an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, South Korea, since 2014. Her research interests are power electronics, modeling, and control for photovoltaic and renewable energy systems. Dr. Kim received the National Science Foundation’s East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes Fellowship in 2010 and Graduate Research Fellowship in 2011. She served as the Chair of the IEEE Power and Energy Society/Power Electronics Society (PELS) Joint Student Chapter at the University of Illinois in 2010–2011 and Co‐Director of the IEEE Power and Energy Conference at Illinois in 2012. She served as the IEEE PELS Student Membership Chair in 2013‐2014 and is an IEEE PELS Member‐At‐Large for 2016‐2018.

Frede Blaabjerg's current research interests include power electronics and its applications, such as in wind turbines, PV systems, reliability, Power-2-X, power quality, and adjustable speed drives. He has published more than 900 journal papers in the fields of power electronics and its applications. He is the co-author of ten monographs and editor of twenty books in power electronics and its applications eg. the series (4 volumes) Control of Power Electronic Converters and Systems published by Academic Press/Elsevier.

Ariya Sangwongwanich received the Ph.D. degree from Aalborg University in 2018, where he is working as a Postdoc Fellow at the Department of Energy Technology. His research interests include the control of grid-connected power converters, photovoltaic systems, reliability in power electronics, and high-power multilevel converters. Dr. Sangwongwanich has published more than 20 technical papers in the aforementioned areas.

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Advances in Grid-Connected Photovoltaic Power Conversion Systems addresses the technological challenges of fluctuating and unreliable power supply in grid-connected photovoltaic systems in to help students, researchers and engineers work towards more PV installations in the grid to make society more sustainable and reliable while complying with grid regulations. Editors Yang, Kim, Sangwongwanich, and Blaabjerg combine their extensive knowledge and experience in this edited collectionbook to address both the basics of the power electronic converter technology as well as the advances of such practical electrical power conversion systems.

This book includes extensive, step-by-step practical application examples to assist students and engineers to better understand the role of power electronics in modern PV applications and solve the practical issues in grid-connected PV systems. Knowledge of the depth of the role of power electronic technologiesy in renewable energy systems is assumed.

About the Authors

Yongheng Yang has been with the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University since 2014, where currently he is an Assistant Associate Professor. His research interests are focused onincludes grid integration of renewable energy systemsphotovoltaic energy, power converter design, analysis and control, harmonics identification and mitigation, and reliability in power electronics. Dr. Yang is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and he is an Associate Editor of the CPSS Transactions on Power Electronics and Applications and an Editor of the Mathematical Problems in Engineering. Power Electronics Society (PELS) Students and Young Professionals Committee, where he serves as the International Strategy Chair and responsible for the IEEE PELS Students and Young Professionals Activities.

Katherine A. Kim is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, South Korea, since 2014. Her research interests are power electronics, modeling, and control for photovoltaic and renewable energy systems. She is an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. She served as an IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) Member-At-Large for 2016-2018.She served as the Chair of the IEEE Power and Energy Society/Power Electronics Society (PELS) Joint Student Chapter at the University of Illinois in 2010–2011 and Co‐Director of the IEEE Power and Energy Conference at Illinois in 2012.

Ariya Sangwongwanich received the Ph.D. degree from Aalborg University in 2018, where he is working as a Postdoc Fellow at the Department of Energy Technology. His research interests include the control of grid-connected power converters, photovoltaic systems, reliability in power electronics, and high-power multilevel converters. Dr. Sangwongwanich has published more than 20 technical papers in the aforementioned areas.

Frede Blaabjerg has served asbeen a Professor at Aalborg University, focusing on power electronics and drives, since 1998. His current research interests include power electronics and its applications such as in wind turbines, PV systems, reliability, harmonics and adjustable speed drives. He has received 17 IEEE Prize Paper Awards, the IEEE PELS Distinguished Service Award in 2009, the EPE‐PEMC Council Award in 2010, the IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Award 2014 and the Villum Kann Rasmussen Research Award 2014. He was an the Editor‐in‐Chief of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS from 2006 to 2012. He is nominated in 2014 and 2015 by Thomson Reuters to be among the most 250 cited researchers in Engineering in the world.