This paper presents dc-dc converter operation of boost converter are an enabling soft switching technology. This proposed converter configuration can achieve zero voltage switching. The circuit consists of a general boost Converter with an auxiliary circuit which has a additional switch, and resonant components (snubbers). Boost converter has loss mechanism, current stress and voltage stress. b...

one of the main problems in wind energy conversion system (wecs) is how to achieve maxim­u­m output power in different wind speeds. maximum methods for maximum power point tracking in wind energy conversion syst­e­ms require the knowledge of system characteristics and mechanic sensors. so, using these methods practically will follow with high price and an abundant difficulties. in this paper, n...

Background and Objectives: Power electronics infrastructures play an important role in charging different types of electric vehicles (EVs) especially Plug-in Hybrid EVs (PHEVs). Designing appropriate power converters is the topic of various studies. Method: In this paper, a novel bidirectional buck-boost multifunctional integrated converter is presented which is capable of handling battery and ...

A non-isolated DC/DC converter with high transfer gain is proposed in this paper. The presented converter consists of the switched inductor and three-level converters. The DC/DC power converter is three-level boost converter to convert the output voltage of the DC source into two voltage sources. The main advantages of DC/DC converter are using low voltage semiconductors and high gain voltage. ...

This paper presents the design and simulation of the zero voltage zero current switched non isolated dcdc boost converter. Many applications powered by batteries need high performance, high step up dc-dc converters. When the converter switches are turned on and off at high frequency to meet dynamic and steady state requirements, the losses add on in the converter. When current through the switc...

A low-side switch is a MOSFET or an IGBT that is connected to the ground-referenced and is not floating. In a boost converter, the source terminal of the MOSFET is connected to the circuit ground, which is referred to a low-side MOSFET. To switch an N-channel MOSFET of a boost converter on, the V should be in the order of 10 to 20V. Since the source terminal is grounded, this implies that the g...

1 This work is supported by Philips Research, Briarcliff Manor, NY, through Colorado Power Electronics Center Abstract – In converters for power-factor-correction (PFC), universal-input capability (ability to operate from any AC line voltage, world-wide) comes with a heavy price in terms of component stresses and losses, size of components, and restrictions on the output DC voltage. A new two-s...

Conventional two-state dc to dc voltage converters have in their small signal transfer function a right half planzero in pole-zero plane whichthis zero result in speed reduction and lowfrequency operation, especially, because position of the zero is not fixed andmovesby the load variation. To remedy this problem the tri-state boost converters have been introduced. These converters haven’t the m...

This paper presents a small-scale prototype of a wind-photovoltaic hybrid system, having batteries as energy storage components. All devices are connected to a common dc-bus using appropriate power converters. The photovoltaic modules are connected through a dc-dc buck converter using Perturb and Observe Maximum Power Point Tracking control. The permanent magnet synchronous generator (wind gene...

This paper presents the design and modeling of DC/DC boost (step-up) converter for Advanced Intelligent Systems using Matlab/Simulink. The steady-state and average-value models for the proposed converter are developed and simulated. This work offers modeling and simulation techniques to analyze and design for an overall efficiency optimization of standard synchronous and asynchronous boost conv...