Effect of the mission profile on the reliability of a power converter aimed at photovoltaic applications-A case study

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2998-3007

  De Léon Aldaco, Susana Estefany ^a   Calleja, Hugo ^a   Chan, Freddy ^b   Jiḿenez Grajales, Humberto R ^c  

^a Natl Cent for Research and   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE QUINTANA ROO   (Mexico)

^c INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES ELÉCTRICAS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Photovoltaic (PV) power systems; Power conversion; Reliability; Reliability estimation

Indexed keywords

DESERT CLIMATES; INSTALLATION SITE; PHOTOVOLTAIC PANELS; PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER SYSTEMS; POWER CONVERSION; PUSH-PULL CONVERTERS; RELIABILITY ESTIMATION; RELIABILITY PERFORMANCE;

FAILURE ANALYSIS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; RELIABILITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

EID: 84879941514     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2012.2222673     Document Type: Article

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