Reliability assessment of fault-tolerant dc-dc converters for photovoltaic applications

2009 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2271-2276

  Dhople, Sairaj V ^a   Davoudi, Ali ^a   Chapman, Patrick L ^a   Domínguez García, Alejandro D ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Markov reliability modeling; Photovoltaic systems; Power electronics; Reliability

Indexed keywords

DC-DC POWER CONVERTER; DESIGN PARAMETERS; DEVICE FAILURE RATE; ELECTRONICS DESIGN; FAULT-TOLERANT; FRONT END; MEAN TIME TO FAILURE; PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC ENERGY; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY ASSESSMENTS; RELIABILITY MODEL; RELIABILITY MODELING; STEADY-STATE OPERATION; SYSTEM RELIABILITY;

CONTROL SYSTEM STABILITY; DC-DC CONVERTERS; ENERGY CONVERSION; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; POWER ELECTRONICS; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 72449212285     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2009.5316414     Document Type: Conference Paper

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