Reliability analysis for single-phase photovoltaic inverters with reactive power support

2011 IEEE Power and Energy Conference at Illinois, PECI 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Muray, Charles J ^a   Davoudi, Ali ^a   Chapman, Patrick L ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPONENT LEVELS; CURRENT RATING; DOUBLE FREQUENCY; OPERATING POINTS; OUTPUT CURRENT; PHOTOVOLTAIC INVERTERS; REACTIVE POWER SUPPORT; STORAGE REQUIREMENTS;

CAPACITANCE; MOSFET DEVICES; RELIABILITY;

REACTIVE POWER;

EID: 84888311526     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PECI.2011.5740479     Document Type: Conference Paper

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