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A novel two winding coupled-inductor step-up gain boost-flyback converter is proposed in this paper. The proposed converter consists of a boost cell and a flyback cell, with a two winding coupled-inductor to achieve high step-up voltage gain at reasonable duty ratio. The voltage gain of the proposed converter is improved with input-parallel output-series of two windings of coupled-inductor. The operating...
A high efficiency high voltage step-up gain DC-DC converter is proposed and studied in this paper. The proposed converter consists of a boost converter cell and an isolated single-ended PWM resonant converter cell, with their outputs connected in series to achieve high voltage step-up gain. By using quasi-resonant technology, zero current switching (ZCS) for the diode on the secondary of transformer...
In order to increase the output voltage range of photovoltaic panels, battery and fuel cell monomer efficiently in the distributed generation system, In this paper, a novel Z-source high step-up boost converter is presented. With a unique X-type Z-source network, clamping voltage of pump capacitor is improved. The proposed converter achieves a high voltage gain without an extremely switch duty cycle...
This paper proposes a novel high gain DC-DC converter, the core structure of the circuit is a bridge which is composed of two power switches and two equivalent voltage sources. The two equivalent voltage sources are charged in parallel during the two switches turn on and are discharged in series during the two switches turn off, which makes the converter produce high output voltage to realize high...
A novel high step-up three-port converter is proposed in this paper. By utilizing coupled-inductor technique, voltage lift technique and multi-winding technique of coupled-inductor. However, main switch suffer from high voltage spike during the turned-off period. Hence, for suppressing and recycling the energy, the clamp circuit technique is applied. Finally, the prototype of the proposed converter...
A novel high step-up DC-DC converter is proposed in this paper. In this paper, interleaved inductors are utilized to combine with switched capacitors to generate a simple circuit structure. This topology aims to reduce current stress in low-voltage side further, decrease voltage stress in high-voltage side, and to achieve output voltage regulation with a wide range input. The operating principles...
Power converters are crucial components of the wind turbine generator system (WTGS), and the reliability of wind power converters is susceptible to power fluctuations of the WTGS. The accurate lifetime estimation of power semiconductors should consider the long-time mission profiles of the WTGS. However, the existing junction temperature calculation methods don't meet the requirement for performance...
Compared with the conventional buck-boost three-level inverters, the Z-source neutral-point-clamped (NPC) inverters have more simple structure with improved output waveform quality. But the neutral-point potential unbalance problem is still a drawback for their applications. Based on the research of SPWM modulation method and the analysis of the effect of the shoot-through states on the neutral-point...
For a Voltage Source Converter based High Voltage Direct Current Transmission(VSC-HVDC)system the most important part is the VSC part because it determines main performance of the whole system. This paper proposed a new topology of PWM AC/DC converter which is cascaded VIENNA rectifier. In addition, in this paper a current controller based on the working modes of three-phase VIENNA rectifier will...
A new Buck-Boost multilevel inverter is proposed. The proposed inverter is derived from Buck-Boost converter, which is with the ability to buck/boost the input voltage. This is much suitable for the application with wide range varied DC link voltage, such as renewable energy generation. The topology and operate principle of the Buck-Boost multilevel inverter is presented. And the current sharing with...
In this paper, an efficiency comparison of neutral-point-clamped (NPC) inverters and bipolar switch NPC (T-Type) inverters is studied and the result shows that the T-Type inverter is more efficient at lower switching frequencies. Nevertheless, its efficiency suffers when the switching frequency increases due to high switching loss of the equipped high voltage power switches. In order to reduce switching...
The 1700V/400A hybrid module is consisted of Si-IGBTs and SiC-SBDs mounted in a general 2in1 package. Because the reverse recovery current of SiC-SBD is very small to be an unipolar device, reverse recovery and turn-on losses at 400A on the hybrid module are 83% and 38% lower than that of the conventional all Si module, respectively. Therefore there is a further advantage of hybrid module at high...
LLC resonant converter is an attractive topology to achieve high power density with high efficiency. However, the high switching frequency and circulating current result the poor efficiency of a LLC resonant converter under light load condition. To improve efficiency further, a modified burst-mode control is implemented in the proposed controller. The switching frequency decreases gradually during...
This paper shows that the hybrid bridge resonant converter which is based on the traditional LLC resonant converter, use DSP to toggle between the full bridge mode and the half bridge mode. So the input voltage range is enlarged, and in the high voltage range, the working efficiency is increased by 3%. The switching process between the full bridge mode and the half bridge mode could be made a smooth...
In this paper, a universal voltage clamping circuit for the T-type neutral-point-clamped (TNPC) converter is introduced. It is shown that, for any TNPC implementation, the proposed voltage clamping circuit can well suppress all voltage spikes of power devices at the switching transients. Therefore, the devices can operate in a much safer region.
The three-loop power virtual synchronous generator (VSG) control methods are commonly used in microgrid inverter (MGI) units to share the loads among the parallel MGI units. In order to achieve stable operation of the MGI units under paralleled or grid-connected mode, a droop synchronization controller is designed in this paper. The difference of phase and amplitude between different MGI units is...
PWM converters have been widely applied for power processing and they are typically the stems of other types of converters, such as quasi-resonant and multi-resonant converters. Development of the PWM converters has been spanning over a century, starting from the buck converter. The well known PWM converters include buck, boost, buck-boost, Ćuk, SEPIC, Zeta, Z-source, quasi-Z source, etc. Many attempts...
In order to improve the output-regulation accuracy of the switching converter with conventional constant off-time (CCFT) modulation, dual-edge constant off-time (DCFT) modulation for switching converter is proposed in this paper. The principle of switching converter with DCFT modulation, including leading-triangle constant off-time (LT-CFT) modulation and trailing-triangle constant off-time (TT-CFT)...
This paper proposes a new modeling method for buck converter. The new modeling method, named bi-switching status method (BSM), for buck converter is obtained via the propositional calculus and linear constrain. Based on the mixed logical dynamical (MLD) model, BSM model of buck converter is obtained. Compared with other modeling methods, such as MLD method and state-space averaging method, streamlined...
In this paper, high-efficiency, extremely high step-up and step-down bi-directional DC-DC converter is proposed. The proposed converter consists of a flyback and an isolated switched-capacitor cell to achieve high cost competitiveness for the extreme operation. The output of the flyback converter and that of the isolated switched-capacitor is connected in series to obtain a high voltage step-up. In...
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