* This project is funded under the NASA-KSC STTR-Phase I Program. ABSTRACT A single-stage power factor correction converter with softswitching is proposed in this paper. The topology of this converter is derived by adding a resonant circuit to an existing Single-Stage, Single-Switch Power Factor Correction (S PFC) converter. As a result, zero-voltage-switching and zero-current-switching are ach...

The series-parallel resonant converter and its magnetic components are analysed by fundamental frequency techniques. The proposed method allows an easy design of the integrated transformer and the calculation of the losses of all components of the converter. Thus, an optimisation of the whole converter system – minimising either the volume and/or the losses of the converter (upper temperature i...

The ability to calculate power losses in the Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors (IGBTs) embedded in a series resonant converter is of great interest at ALSTOM Power, Växjö. Correctly estimated power losses are valuable in various situations, e.g. when evaluating new types of IGBTs or different control strategies. Therefore, it is desirable to investigate and evaluate the existing computer based...

A compact dc/ac inverter for automotive is presented and experimented. The proposed inverter consists of fall bridge inverter and a new ZVCS quasi-resonant push pull dc/dc converter. The new dc/dc converter converts input 12 V (from battery) to high voltage (about) 200V at very high conversion efficiency without regulation. The high voltage will be converted to ac at the desired voltage and fre...

With a development of Hybrid Electric Vehicle(HEV), A photovoltaic(PV) generation system is used for charging batteries in many cases. A dc/dc converter using PV power for a battery charger requires a high efficiency. In this paper, A ZVS boost converter using the renewable energies for HEV charger is proposed. Through the theoretical analysis and experimental result, operation modes and charac...

Fast time-domuin simulation of power electronic systems by using waveform-relaration methods to reduce the simulation time is presented. Algorithms for circuit partitioning, time windowing, and simulation scheduling are developed. Feasibility and advantages of applications are demonstrated by simulation results of a series resonant converter and a zero-voltage-transition PWM boost converter. Th...

ABSTRACT Cyclic averaging techniques are applied to the CLL resonant power converter to provide steady-state converter characteristics for rapid stress analysis. This is shown to facilitate the determination of mode duties and initial conditions through knowledge of the operational modes of the rectifier at various operating frequencies. Comparisons are made with FMA-based cyclic analyses, and ...

A new soft recovery (SR) quasi-resonant converter (QRC) having a multiple-order folding snubber network(MFSN) is introduced. It is obtained by combining a normal QRC with a folding snubber network of which the surrounding components are composed of passive devices only (diodes and capacitors). The reverse recovery loss of the main rectifier diode is eliminated by this method utilizing multiple ...