Fault impacts on solar power unit reliability

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1223-1231

  Bazzi, Ali M ^a   Kim, Katherine A ^a   Johnson, Brian B ^a   Krein, Philip T ^a   Dominguez García, Alejandro ^a  

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

Author keywords

photovoltaic reliability; reliability modeling procedure; solar power unit

Indexed keywords

DC-DC BOOST CONVERTERS; DEVELOPED MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS; FAILURE RATE; MATERIAL DEGRADATION; OPERATING CONDITION; PANEL DESIGN; PHOTOVOLTAIC PANELS; PHOTOVOLTAIC RELIABILITY; PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; PHYSICS-OF-FAILURE; PV PANEL; RELIABILITY MODEL; RELIABILITY MODELING PROCEDURE; SOLAR POWER; SURVIVOR FUNCTION; SYSTEM LEVEL SIMULATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DC-DC CONVERTERS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; POWER ELECTRONICS; RELIABILITY; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SOLAR POWER PLANTS; TOPOLOGY;

DC POWER TRANSMISSION;

EID: 79955783982     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APEC.2011.5744749     Document Type: Conference Paper

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