This book focusses on hardware implementation and investigation studies of novel non-isolated unidirectional DC-DC multistage power converter configurations for renewable energy applications. Their functionality and design have been tested and verified by various simulation tools including review of existing unidirectional power converters.

Frede Blaabjerg is honoris causa at University Politehnica Timisoara (UPT), Romania and Tallinn Technical University (TTU) in Estonia. He is Vice-President of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences as well. He is nominated in 2014-2019 by Thomson Reuters to be between the most 250 cited researchers in Engineering in the world.

Mahajan Sagar Bhaskar is presently with Renewable Energy Lab, Department of Communications and Networks Engineering, College of Engineering, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban is a Faculty Member with the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Esbjerg, Denmark.

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Power Electronics PV Configurations and Maximum Power Point Tracking Algorithms

Chapter 3 Non-Isolated Unidirectional Multistage DC-DC Power Converter Configurations

Chapter 4 X-Y Power Converter Family: A New Breed of DC-DC Multistage Configurations for Photovoltaic Applications

Chapter 5 Self-Balanced DC-DC Multistage Power Converter Configuration without Magnetic Components for Photovoltaic Application

Chapter 6 T-SC MPC: Transformer Switched-Capacitor-Based DC-DC Multistage Power Converter Configuration for Photovoltaic High-Voltage/Low-Current Applications

Chapter 7 New Cockcroft Walton Voltage Multiplier-Based Multistage/Multilevel Power Converter Configuration for Photovoltaic Applications

Chapter 8 Conclusion and Future Direction

References

Index