• Power electronics
• Photovoltaic systems
• Reliability
• Lifetime
• Modelling

Basic knowledge of power electronics circuit and electrical engineering. Basic knowledge of circuit simulation software, e.g., Matlab/Simulink, PLECS.

This PhD course aims to address the reliability challenge and solution for power electronics in PV applications. It will cover the design aspects related topower electronics reliability for PV systems. A step-by-step modeling approach from mission profile to the reliability performance (e.g., failure rates) will beintroduced. The reliability of key components such as power devices and dc-link capacitors will be elaborated in details, and solutions to enhance theirreliability through the design and control methods will be discussed and demonstrated. Moreover, emerging solutions and new technology to furtherenhance the reliability performance of the power electronics in PV applications will be also be covered in the lecture.

The course counts for 1,5 ECTS credit. All students will receive a diploma stating participation in the course.

Remarks - workload:
In total about 42 hours (10 teaching, 10 practicing, 6 preparations, 16 for finalizing exercise report and assignment)

Evaluation form: Report from the exercise session during the class.

Criteria for assessment: The student should descripe in details how the exercise solution is solved including step-by-step guildance 

Selected articles, book chapters, presentations and software will be announced to the participants at the course site in PhD moodle. 

Please register here at the website of The Doctoral School in Engineering and Science here.

Please observe that it is impossible to register for PhD courses until 4 months before start

Outside of AAU
If you are from outside Aalborg University and you wish to enroll in one of our PhD courses, you must create a profile. This is done by clicking on “create new account” and filling out the form in PhD Moodle.

Cancellation
Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. The Doctoral School has a no-show fee of DKK 3.000 for each course where the student does not show up.

Registered illness sent to the course organizer and the aauphd@aau.dk is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days.

Diploma
All passed participants will receive a diploma as a PDF file.
The Doctoral School kindly ask for your patience, as it might take a while before you receive the final course diploma. This is due to the process of gathering evaluations.

Please address questions regarding the evaluation or issue of the diploma to the Doctoral School, via email at phdcourses@adm.aau.dk

More information: www.energy.aau.dk/research/phd   

6000 DKK for PhD students outside of Denmark and 8000 DKK for other participants (Private, Industry and Universities) VAT-FREE Education)

PhD Student from Danish universities: The Danish universities have entered into an agreement that allows PhD students at a Danish university (except Copenhagen Business School) the opportunity to free of charge take a subject-specific course at another Danish university. Read more here: https://phdcourses.dk/ 

Guests at AAU Energy: Enrolled Guest PhD Students at AAU Energy can attend free of charge on the course if  available seats.