DC -DC CONVERTER
S.NO | TITLES | ABSTARCTS | Year |
PEDC-1 | Modular Multilevel DC/DC Converters With Phase-Shift Control Scheme for High-Voltage DC-Based Systems | In this paper, by investigating the topology derivation principle of the phase-shift-controlled three-level dc/dc converters, the modular multilevel dc/dc converters, by integrating the full bridge converters and three-level flying capacitor circuit, are proposed for the high step-down and high power dc-based systems. The high switch voltage stress in the primary side is effectively reduced by the full-bridge modules in series. Therefore, the low-voltage rated power devices can be employed to obtain the benefits of low conduction losses. More importantly, the voltage auto balance ability among the cascaded modules is achieved by the inherent flying capacitor, which removes the additional possible active components or control loops. In addition, zero-voltage-switching performance for all the active switches can be provided due to the phase-shift control scheme, which can reduce the switching losses. The circuit operation and converter performance are analyzed in detail. Finally, the performance of the presented converter is verified by the simulation and experimental results from a 2-kW prototype. | 2015 |
PEDC-2 | Analysis and Design Considerations of LLCC Resonant Multioutput DC/DC LED Driver With Charge Balancing and Exchanging of Secondary Series Resonant Capacitors | A new rectifier for multi output LED driver is proposed based on a charge exchanging and balancing principle in the secondary resonant capacitors. Combined with common ground rectifier and LLCC resonant topology, a four-output dc–dc LED driver is proposed with minimum quantity of secondary charge balancing capacitors. In the LLCC topology, the secondary side resonant capacitors can be used as dc blocking and charge balancing capacitors. The proposed LED driver can automatically share the average output currents by the charge balancing and exchanging among secondary resonant capacitors. The operating principle and the brief design guidelines for the four-output LLCC resonant dc–dc converter are presented. The guaranteed current sharing capability of the proposed four-output LED driver is also analyzed thoroughly. Finally, a 150 W four outputs LLCC resonant dc–dc LED driver is built-up to verify the theoretical analysis. | 2015 |
PEDC-3 | Naturally Clamped Zero-Current Commutated Soft-Switching Current-Fed Push–Pull DC/DC Converter: Analysis, Design, and Experimental Results | The proposed converter has the following features: 1) zero-current commutation (ZCC) and natural voltage clamping(NVC) eliminate the need for active-clamp circuits or passive snubbers required to absorb surge voltage in conventional current-fed topologies. 2) Switching losses are reduced significantly owing to zero-current switching of primary-side devices and zero-voltage switching of secondary-side devices. Turn-on switching transition loss of primary devices is also negligible. 3) Soft switching and NVC are inherent and load independent. 4) The voltage across primary-side device is independent of duty cycle with varying input voltage and output power and clamped at rather low reflected output voltage enabling the use of low-voltage semiconductor devices. These merits make the converter good candidate for interfacing low-voltage dc bus with high-voltage dc bus for higher current applications. Steady state, analysis, design, simulation, and experimental results are presented. | 2015 |
PEDC-4 | A High Gain Input-Parallel Output-Series DC/DC Converter With Dual Coupled Inductors | High voltage gain dc–dc converters are required in many industrial applications such as photovoltaic and fuel cellEnergy systems, high-intensity discharge lamp (HID), dc back-up energy systems, and electric vehicles. This paper presents a novel input-parallel output-series boost converter with dual coupled inductors and a voltage multiplier module. On the one hand, the primary windings of two coupled inductors are connected in parallel to share the input current and reduce the current ripple at the input. On the other hand, the proposed converter inherits the merits
of interleaved series-connected output capacitors for high voltage gain, low output voltage ripple, and low switch voltage stress. Moreover, the secondary sides of two coupled inductors are connected in series to a regenerative capacitor by a diode for extending the voltage gain and balancing the primary-parallel currents. In addition, the active switches are turned on at zero current and the reverse recovery problem of diodes is alleviated by reasonable leakage inductances of the coupled inductors. Besides, the energy of leakage inductances can be recycled. A prototype circuit rated 500-W output power is implemented in the laboratory, and the experimental results shows satisfactory agreement with the theoretical analysis. |
2015 |
PEDC-5 | A Novel Load Adaptive ZVS Auxiliary Circuit for PWM Three-Level DC–DC Converters | Three-level PWM dc–dc converters convert high dc voltage (>500 V) generally at the output of a three-phaseac–dc PWM rectifier in ac–dc converters to an isolated dc output voltage which can be used to power data center loads. Strict efficiency requirements at loads from 20% to 50% of full load of ac–dc converters for telecom applications have been introduced by energy star enforcing industries to improve efficiency of the dc–dc converter in an ac–dc converter powering data-center loads at those loads. High-efficiency requirements at low and mid loads
in high switching frequency PWM dc–dc three-level converters implemented with MOSFETs can be achieved by reducing switching losses through optimized load adaptive ZVS for the entire load range. In this paper, a simple yet novel load adaptive ZVS auxiliary circuit for three-level converter is proposed for so that the resulting three-phase ac–dc converter can meet energy star platinum efficiency standard. The operation of the proposed dc–dc converter is described, analyzed, and validated by experimental results from an industrial prototype of a three-phase ac–dc converter comprising of a front-end three-phase boost PWM rectifier followed by the proposed converter. |
2015 |
PEDC-6 | Hybrid Transformer ZVS/ZCS DC–DC Converter With Optimized Magnetics and Improved Power Devices Utilization for Photovoltaic Module Applications | This paper presents a no isolated, high boost ratio dc–dc converter with the application for photovoltaic (PV) modules. The proposed converter utilizes a hybrid transformer to incorporate the resonant operation mode into a traditional high boost ratio active-clamp coupled-inductor pulse-width-modulation dc– dc converter, achieving zero-voltage-switching (ZVS) turn-on of active switches and zero-current-switching turn-off of diodes. Asa result of the inductive and capacitive energy being transferred simultaneously within the whole switching period, power device utilization (PDU) is improved and magnetic utilization (MU) is optimized. The improved PDU allows reduction of the silicon area required to realize the power devices of the converter. The optimized MU reduces the dc-bias of magnetizing current in the magnetic core, leading to smaller sized magnetic. Since the magnetizing current has low dc-bias, the ripple magnetizing current can be utilized to assist ZVS of main switch, while maintaining low root mean- square (RMS) conduction loss. The voltage stresses on the active switches and diodes are maintained at a low level and are ndependent of the wide changing PV voltages as a result of the resonant capacitor in series in the energy transfer loop. The experimental results based on 250Wprototype circuit show 97.7% peak efficiency and system CEC efficiencies greater than 96.7% over 20 to 45 V input voltages. Due to the high efficiency over wide power range, the ability to operate with a wide variable input voltage and compact size, the proposed converter is an attractive design for PV module applications. | 2015 |
PEDC-7 | Hybrid-Type Full-Bridge DC/DC Converter With High Efficiency | This paper presents a hybrid-type full-bridge dc/dc converter with high efficiency. Using a hybrid control scheme with a simple circuit structure, the proposed dc/dc converter has a hybrid operation mode. Under a normal input range, the proposed converter operates as a phase-shift full-bridge series-resonant converter that provides high efficiency by applying soft switching on all switches and rectifier diodes and reducing conduction losses.When the input is lower than the normal input range, the converter operates as an active-clamp step-up converter that enhances an operation range. Due to the hybrid operation, the proposed converter operates with larger phase-shift value than the conventional converters under the normal input range. Thus, the proposed converter is capable of being designed to give high power conversion efficiency and its operation range is extended. A 1-kW prototype is implemented to confirm the theoretical analysis and validity of the proposed converter. | 2015 |