Quantifying the value of power electronics in sustainable electrical energy systems

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3534-3544

  Popović Gerber, Jelena ^a,b   Ferreira, Jan Abraham ^a   Van Wyk, Jacobus Daniel ^c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b European Centre for Power Electronics   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Energy efficiency; life cycle analysis; power electronics

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENERGY; ELECTRICAL ENERGY SAVINGS; ELECTRICAL ENERGY SYSTEMS; END-OF-LIFE MANAGEMENTS; ENERGY PAY BACK TIME; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; POLICY MAKERS; POWER ELECTRONIC CONVERTERS; POWER ELECTRONICS SYSTEMS; PUBLIC ACCEPTANCE; TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTION;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; LIFE CYCLE; MANUFACTURE; POWER CONVERTERS;

POWER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 83455178143     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2011.2166088     Document Type: Article

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