Reliability evaluation of solar photovoltaic microgrid

Author

Alam, Aftab ; Upadhyay, Subho ; Murthy, C.H. ; Reddy, M. Jaya Bharata ; Jana, K.C. ; Mohanta, D.K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of EEE, Birla Inst. of Technol., Ranchi, India

fYear

2012

fDate

18-25 May 2012

Firstpage

490

Lastpage

495

Abstract

This paper presents an algorithm for reliability analysis and energy management of Power Conditioning System for grid connected PV power generation using a high frequency AC (HFAC) microgrid system. The scheme is designed involving several electrical and electronics components. This analysis excludes redundancy of components. In the microgrid, connected loads are subjected to variable operating conditions of voltage and current. In this analysis component stress and temperature cycles are incorporated in an order to predict the life time and effective design methodologies.

Keywords

distributed power generation; energy management systems; photovoltaic power systems; power generation reliability; component stress; energy management; grid connected PV power generation; high frequency AC microgrid system; power conditioning system; reliability evaluation; solar photovoltaic microgrid; temperature cycles; Insulated gate bipolar transistors; Inverters; Junctions; Rectifiers; Reliability engineering; Temperature; DER; High Frequency AC; MTBF; PCC; Semiconductor Switches; Thermal Model;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC), 2012 11th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Venice

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1830-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EEEIC.2012.6221427

Filename

6221427