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This study presents a new high step-up resonant converter for renewable energy applications. Since, renewable sources introduce relatively low voltage, it is necessary to step up the voltage in order to be used in regular applications. The proposed converter has employed a coupled inductor and a switched capacitor to step up the output voltage. An active clamp circuit has been adopted to guarantee...
The input capacitors' voltages are unbalanced under the conventional control strategy in a dual half-bridge cascaded three-level (TL) DC/DC converter, which would affect the high voltage stresses on the capacitors. This paper proposes a pulse-wide modulation (PWM) strategy with two working modes for the dual half-bridge cascaded TL DC/DC converter, which can realize the zero-voltage switching (ZVS)...
In this paper, magnetically-coupled impedance source (MCIS) three-phase four-switch inverters are introduced for renewable energy applications. This inverter utilizes two single-phase MCIS inverters to obtain a three-phase output, where less component-count is achieved in order to reduce the inverter volume. On the other hand, as a result of the reduced number of switches, the proposed inverter suffers...
Dead-time effect of dual active bridge (DAB) DC-DC converter is usually out of consideration in traditional optimized strategies, causing the deviation of the theoretical and actual results. In this paper, the current stress model of DAB with dead-time effect is given, and combining the transmission power model, a current-stress-optimized strategy is proposed. Meanwhile, the corresponding control...
A combined quasi-two-stage bridgeless power factor correction (BPFC) converter is analyzed and evaluated in this paper. The combined converter is composed of a three-port BPFC (TP-BPFC) converter and a Buck DC-DC converter. A low voltage and high voltage DC voltage ports are provided by the TP-BPFC converter. A low voltage DC load, whose voltage is lower than the peak AC line voltage, can be directly...
In this paper, a novel single-stage single-phase transformer-less buck-boost inverter is proposed, in which a reduced number of passive components is used. The proposed inverter combines the conventional buck, boost, and buck-boost converters in one converter in order to obtain a sinusoidal output voltage. In the proposed inverter, the input DC source and the load or grid have the same ground. Therefore,...
In this paper, a novel three-phase rectifier based on triple line-voltage cascaded VIENNA converters has been proposed. A comprehensive analysis to the proposed converter is presented. Compared to conventional three-phase cascaded H-bridge converters, in the proposed new multilevel converters, the switch voltage stress is reduced, and fewer switches and dc capacitors are required under the similar...
This paper presents a prototype of magnetostrictive material-based vibration energy harvester, which is used to generate electricity during human walking with high power density. According to Villari effect (inverse-magnetostrictive effect), the harvester consists of a coil-wound magnetostrictive rod. In order to improve the harvesting effect, a magnetostrictive/electromagnetic hybrid configuration...
Limited travel constrains the widely application of XYZ parallel micro/nano-positioning stage. In this paper, a novel parallel-kinematics micro/nano-positioning stage is proposed with the goal of enlarging the travel range. In order to obtain a large input displacement for actuating the stage, voice coil motors (VCM) are adopted. For a large-travel parallel stage, the cross-axis motion increases the...
To study the failure mechanism of LED driver and predict the life of it, this paper analyzes the LED driver possible failure forms and the causes which make the driver fail. Three accelerated life model are introduced in this paper and how to get the parameter is discussed. LED diver high accelerated life testing platform is built to test the sample driver life and get the parameter in the accelerated...
Wireless power transfer (WPT) is the future solution for electric vehicles due to its merits compared to conductive charging. The main obstacles to WPT are efficiency and power transfer capability. Compensation topologies play a key role in improving efficiency and power transfer capability of WPT. This paper carries the evaluation of electrical parameters for wireless charging of an e-Rickshaw through...
This paper proposes the application of advanced modelling and control strategies for a single phase Dual Active Bridge (DAB) based Medium Voltage DC (MVDC) Shipboard Power System (SPS). In these systems the tightly controlled point of load (POL) converters exhibit a constant power load (CPL) behaviour, which has a destabilising effect on the bus voltage. In this work, a Multiple Input Single Output...
This paper presents a family of cost-effective magnetically-coupled impedance source inverters for renewable energy systems. The inverters are derived from magnetically-coupled impedance source networks, featuring low cost and no ground leakage current when used in PV system. The numbers of required semi-conductor switches is reduced. More important, the elimination of leakage currents makes it particularly...
A single stage high gain Buck-Boost inverter (BBI) for photovoltaic application is proposed in this paper. The proposed topology is with simple circuit and low switch count. The three-winding tapped inductor is applied to attain high gain feature. One-cycle control (OCC) is adopted to obtain superior source ripple rejection. The paper presents the detail operation principle of the proposed topology,...
Reliability of power electronics is a critical issue, as most of the electrical energy is processed by power electronics. Various stressors impact the safe operation of the systems, including harsh environments, temperature variations, humidity, vibration and radiation. Physics of failure analysis uses models that describe how failure mechanisms evolve over time and induce failures. Active methods...
Bulky capacitors are usually needed to buffer the double-frequency ripple power (DFRP) in single-phase power factor correction (PFC) rectifier. It is important to reduce the capacitance requirements for improving the system reliability and power density. In this paper a control method for capacitive idling converter based PFC (CIC-PFC) rectifier is proposed. The DFPR is diverted to the energy transfer...
Capacitive DC links provide the only low-impedance current path connected with an input source during the start-up of many voltage source converters. A soft-start circuit is usually implemented to limit the inrush current. A two-terminal active capacitor is recently proposed which can directly replace conventional passive capacitors in DC links, with reduced cost or size for a given application. The...
Serious sealing problems cause premature retirement of Lithium-ion punch cells in the service stage. This paper mainly investigates the sealing failure behavior of Li-ion punch cell. A non-linear peeling model was established with experimental verification to explain the failure behavior of sealing cohesive zone. Based on the peeling model, a sealing life prediction method is proposed by describing...
This paper proposes a comprehensive analysis of switched boost inverter's (SBI) voltage and current equations, using specific switching method in continuous current mode (CCM) operation. The presented switching method makes SBI proper to be used in galvanic and electrochemical applications. The boundary amount of inductor between the two CCM and discontinuous current mode (DCM) operations is calculated...
In this paper, a new quasi Z-source inverter based on new capacitor basic units (CAQZSI) is proposed. It is possible to develop the proposed topology by using n numbers of the basic units that is one of the main advantages of the proposed CAQZSI. The boost factor equation, voltage and current equations of the capacitors, diodes and inductors are obtained for the proposed topology and developed CAQZSI...
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