Decision Making Framework for Solar Photovoltaic Power Conditioning Unit Topologies Using Six Sigma Conference Paper

abstract

• The fast pace of technology and business innovation in the renewable energy sector can make it difficult to thoroughly evaluate competing technologies, often because incontrovertible data is lacking or obscured by speculation, hype, and vaporware claims. Thus an impartial and comprehensive tool is needed to analyze qualitative and subjective parameters. This paper proposes the use of Six Sigma as a quantitative method to evaluate and analyze the heart of Photovoltaic (PV) Systems - the power conditioning unit. Six Sigma tools such as Fishbone Diagram, Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and Priority Matrix are applied to chalk out the boundaries of different power conditioning unit configurations and inverter topologies for both small scale (including residential) and utility scale energy conversion. 2012 IEEE.

name of conference

• 2012 38th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

authors

• Balog, Robert
• Enjeti, Prasad

published proceedings

• 2012 38TH IEEE PHOTOVOLTAIC SPECIALISTS CONFERENCE (PVSC)

author list (cited authors)

• Krishnamoorthy, H. S., Mazumdar, P., Manickam, I., Balog, R. S., & Enjeti, P. N.

citation count

• 1

complete list of authors

• Krishnamoorthy, Harish S||Mazumdar, Poornima||Manickam, Ilaval||Balog, Robert S||Enjeti, Prasad N

publication date

• June 2012

publisher

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)  Publisher

published in

• Conference Record IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference  Journal

keywords

• Decision Making
• Inverters
• Photovoltaic Systems
• Power Conditioning

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1109/pvsc.2012.6317851

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 13

• 9781467300643

start page

• 1352

end page

• 1356

volume

• 1

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/pvsc.2012.6317851

user-defined tag

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