Power Electronics and Applications Research Lab

Journal

G. Liang, H. Dehghani Tafti, G. G. Farivar, J. Pou, C. Townsend, G. Konstantinou, and S. Ceballos, “Effect of capacitor voltage ripples on submodule active power control limits of cascaded multilevel converters,”IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron., Jun. 2021.

H. W. Yan, A. Narang, H. D. Tafti, G. G. Farivar, S. Ceballos and J. Pou, “Minimizing Energy Storage Utilization in a Stand-Alone DC Microgrid Using Photovoltaic Flexible Power Control,” in IEEE Trans. Smart Grid, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 3755-3764, Sep. 2021.

A. Kumaresan, H. D. Tafti, N. K. Kandasamy, G. G. Farivar, J. Pou, and T. Subbaiyan, “Flexible power point tracking for solar photovoltaic systems using secant method,” IEEE Trans. Power Electron., vol. 36, no. 8, pp. 9419–9429, Aug. 2021.

N. Beniwal, J. Pou, S. Ceballos, C. D. Townsend, G. Konstantinou, H. D. Tafti, and G. G. Farivar, “Feedforward Modulation for the Neutral-Point-Clamped Converter With Confined Capacitor Voltage Ripples and Reduced Switching Power Losses,” IEEE Trans. Power Electron., vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 4426-4438, April 2020.

E. R. Rodriguez, R. Leyva, G. G. Farivar, H. Dehghani Tafti, C. D. Townsend, and J. Pou, “Incremental Passivity Control in Multilevel Cascaded H-Bridge Converters”, IEEE Trans. Power Electron. (2020), pp. 1-1.

E. Rodriguez, G. Farivar, N. Beniwal, C. Townsend, H. Dehghani Tafti, S. Vazquez, and J. Pou, “A Closed-Loop Analytic Filtering Scheme of Capacitor Voltage Ripple in Multilevel Cascaded H-Bridge Converters”, IEEE Trans. Power Electron. (2020), pp. 1-1.

Y. Jeon, C. D. Townsend, H. Dehghani T., G. Farivar, J. Parkand and J. Pou, ”An enhanced static compensator with dc-Link voltage shaping method,” IEEE Trans. Power Elec., vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 2488-2500, Mar. 2020.

G. Liang, H. Dehghani Tafti, G. G. Farivar, J. Pou, C. D. Townsend, G. Konstantinou, and S. Ceballos, “Analytical derivation of inter-submodule active power disparity limits in modular multilevel converter-based battery energy storage systems,” IEEE Trans. Power Electron., vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 2864–2874, Mar. 2020.

H. Dehghani T., A. Sangwongwanich, Y. Yang, J. Pou, G. Konstantinou and F. Blaabjerg, ”An adaptive control scheme for flexible power point tracking in photovoltaic systems,” IEEE Trans. Power Electron., vol. 34, no. 6, pp. 5451 – 5463, Jun. 2019.

H. Dehghani T., C. D. Townsend, G. Konstantinou and J. Pou, “A multi-mode flexible power point tracking algorithm for photovoltaic power plants,” IEEE Trans. Power Electron., vol. 34, no. 6, pp. 5038 – 5042, Jun. 2019.

 

Conference

H. W. Yan, G. G. Farivar, H. D. Tafti, S. Ceballos and J. Pou, “Simplified Hybrid Control Strategy for Stand-Alone DC Microgrid with Photovoltaic System to Extend Battery Lifespan,” 2021 IEEE 12th Energy Conversion Congress & Exposition – Asia (ECCE-Asia), pp. 303-307, Jul. 2021.

G. Liang, Tafti, H. D., Farivar, G. G., Pou, J., Townsend, C. D., & Konstantinou, G. “Analysis of the Inter-Submodule Active Power Disparity Limits of Modular Multilevel Converter-Based Battery Energy Storage Systems,” In Proc. of ECCE, pp. 594-600. Oct., 2020.

H. W. Yan, A. Narang, H. D. Tafti, G. G. Farivar and J. Pou, “Reduced Battery Usage in a Hybrid Battery and Photovoltaic Stand-Alone DC Microgrid with Flexible Power Point Tracking,” 2020 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), pp. 3894-3899, Oct. 2020.

A. Narang H.D. Tafti, C.D. Townsend, G. Farivar, J. Pou, G. Konstantinou, S. Vazquez “An Algorithm for Fast Flexible Power Point Tracking in Photovoltaic Power Plants,” IECON 2019 – 45th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Lisbon, Portugal, 2019, pp. 4387-4392.

E. Rodriguez, R. Leyva, G. G. Farivar, H. D. Tafti, C. D. Townsend and J. Pou, “Passivity Control in Multilevel Cascaded H-Bridge Converters: A Variable Gain Approach,” IECON 2019 – 45th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Lisbon, Portugal, 2019, pp. 3565-3570.

N. Beniwal, C. D. Townsend, G. Farivar, J. Pou and S. Ceballos, “Balancing Average Capacitor Voltages in Neutral-Point-Clamped Converters Using Band-Limited Three-Level Modulation,” Proc. of IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Baltimore, MD, USA, 2019, pp. 4721-4726.

H. Dehghani T., G. Konstantinou, C. D. Townsend,  Glen G. Farivar, A. Sangwongwanich, Y. Yang,  J. Pou and F. Blaabjerg, “A Comparative Study of Flexible Power Point Tracking Algorithms in Photovoltaic Systems,” in Proc. of IEEE 4th Intern. Future Energy Electronics Conf. (IFEEC), Singapore, Nov. 2019, pp. 1-6.

N. Beniwal, J. Pou, C. D. Townsend and S. Ceballos, “Enhancing the Natural Voltage Balancing Capability of Neutral-Point-Clamped Converters under Carrier-Based Pulsewidth Modulation,” Proc. of IEEE 4th Southern Power Electronics Conference (SPEC), Singapore, 2018, pp. 1-6.

D. A. Molligoda, J. Pou, C. J. Gajanayake, and A. K. Gupta, “Analysis of the Vienna rectifier under nonunity power factor operation,” in Proc. 2018 Asian Conference on Energy, Power and Transportation Electrification (ACEPT), Oct. 2018, pp. 1–7.