Design strategy to optimize the reliability of grid-connected PV systems

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 4465-4472

  Chan, Freddy ^a   Calleja, Hugo ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE QUINTANA ROO   (Mexico)

^b Natl Cent for Research and   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Design of experiments (DOE); Photovoltaic (PV) inverters; Reliability

Indexed keywords

BOOST INVERTERS; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS (DOE); DESIGN STRATEGIES; GRID CONNECTED PV SYSTEM; MEAN TIME BETWEEN FAILURES; OPTIMIZATION PROCEDURES; PHOTOVOLTAIC (PV) INVERTERS; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY ESTIMATION; STRESS FACTORS;

DENSITY (OPTICAL); DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENTS; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SPECIFICATIONS;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 70350376417     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2008.928100     Document Type: Article

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