Cost-Effective hundred-year life for single-phase inverters and rectifiers in solar and LED lighting applications based on minimum capacitance requirements and a ripple power port

Conference Proceedings - IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition - APEC

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 620-625

  Krein, Philip T ^a   Balog, Robert S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b SmartSpark Energy Systems Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE ENERGY; CAPACITOR VOLTAGES; DOUBLE FREQUENCY; FILM CAPACITORS; GRID-CONNECTED; LED LAMPS; LED LIGHTING; MEAN TIME BETWEEN FAILURES; PHOTOVOLTAIC CONVERTER; POWER REQUIREMENT; SINGLE-PHASE INVERTERS; STORAGE REQUIREMENTS; SYSTEM VOLTAGE;

CAPACITANCE; CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; ENERGY STORAGE; FLYWHEELS; LIGHTING; POWER ELECTRONICS;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 66049163322     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APEC.2009.4802723     Document Type: Conference Paper

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