Here an improved three-level integrated ac–dc converter is presented. This converter improving or boosting power factor correction. And also this converter topology is advanced than previous ac-dc converters mainly the converter is operating with two independent controllers. An input controller is used to power factor correction and it regulates the dc bus, and the output controller is used to ...

This paper presents the three phase AC/DC converter drive effects on the linearity of the Torque-speed characteristics. A MATLAB/Simulink realization of the three phase AC/DC converter drive is described. The DC motor speed control is achieved by controlling the voltage applied to the armature circuit using three phase AC/DC converter drive. A comparison between the application of three phase s...

This paper proposes a novel soft-switching singlephase ac–dc–ac converter to give high input power factor and low current distortion on the rectifier side and provide clean and stable ac voltage on the inverter side. The proposed converter uses a new zero voltage switching (ZVS) strategy to get ZVS function. Besides operating at constant frequency, all semiconductor devices operate at soft-swit...

In this paper, a maximum power point tracker method using sliding mode control for a photovoltaic (PV) system is presented. The system includes a photovoltaic array, a DC/DC converter and a DC/AC inverter connected to a load. The designed control regulates the converter output voltage and it maximizes the power generated by the photovoltaic array. To obtain it, the sliding surface used to contr...

In this paper, a direct power control (DPC) strategies have been investigated in order to control a high power AC/DC converter with time variable load. This converter is composed of a three level three phase neutral point clamped (NPC) converter as rectifier and an H-bridge four quadrant current control converter. In the high power application, controller not only must adjust the desire outputs...

This paper presents the design, and simulation of a soft switched boost converter for a switched reluctance motor with a closed loop controller. A soft switching scheme is proposed in the converter with minimum components, which reduces the switching loss and stress across the switch so that the harmonic generation is reduced in the output. The switch used in this converter switched ON at zero ...

This paper presented a closed loop control of asymmetrical PWM full bridge converter; Renewable energy and distributed generation are getting more and more popular, wind turbines, and fuel cells. The renewable energy sources need the power electronics interface to the utility grid because of different characteristics between the sources and the grid. No matter what renewable energy source is ut...

A single-phase ac-to-dc converter using threephase modified series-parallel resonant converter is proposed in this paper. The three-phase resonant converter is analyzed using Fourier series approach. The design curves for a resonant converter of 2.5 kW rating are plotted. The converter components are selected based on the design curves. The converter is simulated for different load conditions u...

In this paper, a novel approach for control of the DC-DC buck converter in high-power and low-voltage applications is proposed. Designed method is developed according to state feedback linearization based controller , which is able to stabilize output voltage in a wide range of operation. It is clear that in high-power applications, parasitic elements of the converter may become comparable with...

This article presents a self-balanced multistage DC-DC step-up converter for photovoltaic applications. The proposed converter topology is designed for unidirectional power transfer and provides a doable solution for photovoltaic applications where voltage is required to be stepped up without magnetic components (transformer-less and inductor-less). The output voltage obtained from renewable so...