Advanced Control Technology of Photovoltaic Power Generation Systems: For Safety, Efficiency, Reliability, and Adaptability

by Chenghui Zhang

Overview

The photovoltaic (PV) inverter serves as the interface between the PV panels and the power grid and realizes the power conversion, which is the core equipment of the PV power generation system. With the development of PV industry, the requirements of functions or performances for PV inverters are also gradually proposed in practical applications, which consist of safety, generation efficiency, transmitted power quality, robustness to multiple disturbances, grid-friendly, continuity of power supply, and system reliability. To satisfy these requirements, this book puts forward a series of software-based advanced control technologies for PV inverters. Through these control technologies, the PV power generation system has gradually become a system with high safety, high reliability, high efficiency, and strong adaptability, which serves as a core support in modern power system.

To facilitate the understanding, the operating principle, model derivation, control schemes, and comprehensive verification results of the PV inverters are presented step by step in this book, which can serve as a guide for electrical engineers and researchers involved in the development of PV power generation.

This is an open access book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789819677443
Publisher:	Springer Nature Singapore
Publication date:	08/19/2025
Pages:	526
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Chenghui Zhang received his B.S. and M.S. in automation from Shandong University of Technology, Jinan, China, in 1985 and 1988, respectively. He received Ph.D. in operational research and cybernetics from Shandong University, Jinan, China, in 2001.

In 1988, he joined the Shandong University of Technology, where he became a professor in 1998. From July 2000, he joined the Shandong University as a professor, and he is currently a deputy director of the academic committee of Shandong University, and also a chair professor and the dean of the School of Control Science and Engineering of Shandong University. He is the founder and the director of the National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center of “Renewable Energy and Efficient Energy Conversion Technology” and the Ministry of Education Engineering Research Center of “Power Electronics, Energy Saving Technology and Equipment”.

Table of Contents

Introduction.- Fundamentals of Photovoltaic Inverters.