Reliability-oriented design and analysis of input capacitors in single-phase transformer-less photovoltaic inverters

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 2929-2933

  Wang, Huai ^a   Yang, Yongheng ^a   Blaabjerg, Frede ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITORS; COST-EFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS; DESIGN AND ANALYSIS; GRID-CONNECTED PHOTOVOLTAIC; INPUT CAPACITORS; PHOTOVOLTAIC INVERTERS; SERVICE TIME; TEMPERATURE PROFILES;

ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITORS; POWER ELECTRONICS;

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84879325535     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APEC.2013.6520714     Document Type: Conference Paper

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