| Title |
A Novel Active Clamp Switching Method To Improve of Efficiency For Photovoltaic MIC |
| Authors |
Byung-Chul Park ; Ji-Ho Park ; Sung-Geun Song ; Sung-Jun Park ; Joong-Rin Shin |
| DOI |
10.6113/TKPE/2013.18.5.477 |
| Keywords |
active clamp; snubber; voltage spike; micro inverter; module integrated converter (MIC) |
| Abstract |
This paper proposes a novel switching method of active clamp snubber for efficiency improvement of PV module integrated converter(MIC) system. Recently, MIC solar system is researched about the efficiency and safety. PV MIC system is used active clamp method of snubber circuit for the price and reliability of the system. But active clamp snubber circuit has the disadvantage that system efficiency is decreased for switch operating time because of heat loss of resonant between snubber capacitor and leakage inductance. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a novel switching method of the active clamp. The proposed method is a technique to reduce power consumption by reducing the resonance of the snubber switch operation time and through simulations and experiments proved the validity. |