DocumentCode
540932
Title
Solar power inverters
Author
Mallwitz, Regine ; Engel, Bernd
Author_Institution
SMA Solar Technol. AG, Niestetal, Germany
fYear
2010
fDate
16-18 March 2010
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
7
Abstract
This paper reviews the history of solar power inverters and highlights aspects of power electronic packaging concerning functional and packaging integration in solar inverter technology. The most important indicators to characterize the advances in inverter technology are efficiency and losses respectively, mean time between failure and inverter costs. A high integration level is bounded up with high reliability and life time and less costs. The paper presents the state of the art and trends in the inverter design towards higher functional and packaging integration. Several generations of medium power inverter are analyzed concerning integration level which will be described by different indicators.
Keywords
invertors; packaging; power electronics; solar power; failure costs; functional integration; high integration level; inverter costs; inverter design; power electronic packaging integration; solar power inverter technology; Aluminum; Cooling; Inverters; Optical filters; Packaging; Reliability;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Integrated Power Electronics Systems (CIPS), 2010 6th International Conference on
Conference_Location
Nuremberg
Print_ISBN
978-1-61284-814-3
Type
conf
Filename
5730644
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