MOSFET is the most commonly used devices in DC-DC power converters, and its performance is important to the prognosis and health management of power. The paper proposes a degradation analysis model for MOSFET in DC-DC power converters. A method for detecting the degradation of MOSFET is also introduced. Simulations have shown that the method can predict deterioration in the performance of MOSFE...

This paper deals with a comparative analysis of various converter topologies for Power Factor Correction (PFC) in switched reluctance motor drives. Hence a power factor corrected converter required for obtaining the improved PQ at the AC mains for an inverter fed SRM drive has been analyzed. The SRM when fed by a DBR with a high value of DC-link capacitor results in highly distorted supply curr...

Single-stage AC-DC converters integrate an AC-DC front-end converter with a DC-DC backend converter. Compared with conventional two-stage AC-DC converters, single-stage ACDC converters use less components and only one controller, which is used to regulate the output voltage. As a result, the cost, size and complexity of AC-DC converters can be reduced, but single-stage converters do not perform...

Introduction The widespread use of battery operated portable devices such as cell phones and laptops has created the need for DC to DC conversion power supplies such as switched mode power supplies. According to an Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) study [1], the amount of electricity that flowed through switched mode power supplies in 2004 was “6% of the national electric bill”. The pro...

Three-phase multipulse AC–DC converters (MPC) are developed for improving power quality to reduce harmonics in ac mains and ripples in dc output. This study, based on technical and economic factors, compares different autotransformer-based 30-pulse AC–DC converters. In this paper, the comparison of two topologies of autotransformer-based 30-pulse AC–DC converter has been presented. In topology ...

Conventional switch-mode dc-dc converters are operated at frequencies in the order of hundreds of kHz to single MHz. Switching frequencies in the order of tens of MHz would enable applications of RF converters in low power communications and computing integrated circuits with dynamic voltage scaling. Controllers for these converters would have to operate with a bandwidth in the GHz range. The m...

Multiple output DC-DC converters are widely used in many applications such as aerospace, industrial and medical equipments. The purpose of this paper is to present an intelligent control system for the multiple output DC-DC converters. In order to perform this purpose, a double ended forward DC-DC converter with three output voltages (+5 V/ 50W, +15 V/ 45W and -15 V/ 15W) is considered and anal...

In this paper, a stochastic approach is proposed for reliability assessment of bidirectional DC-DC converters, including the fault-tolerant ones. This type of converters can be used in a smart DC grid, feeding DC loads such as home appliances and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs). The reliability of bidirectional DC-DC converters is of such an importance, due to the key role of the expec...

MODULARIZED MULTILEVEL AND Z-SOURCE POWER CONVERTER AS RENEWABLE ENERGY INTERFACE FOR VEHICLE AND GRID-CONNECTED APPLICATIONS By Dong Cao Due the energy crisis and increased oil price, renewable energy sources such as photovoltaic panel, wind turbine, or thermoelectric generation module, are used more and more widely for vehicle and grid-connected applications. However, the output of these rene...