STUDY OF A HIGH-EFFICIENT WIDE-BANDGAP DC-DC POWER CONVERTER FOR SOLAR POWER INTEGRATION Yashwanth Bezawada Old Dominion University, 2017 Director: Dr. Yucheng Zhang This research focuses on the design and analysis of a Boost cascaded Buck-Boost (BoCBB) power converter with super high efficiency in electric power conversion. The BoCBB power converter is based on emerging wide-bandgap silicon-ca...

-This paper presents modeling, design and analysis of a bidirectional half-bridge DC/DC converter suitable for power electronic interface between the main energy system and the electric traction drive in hybrid electric vehicles. A solar based renewable energy system is considered as input. A parallel dc-linked multi input converter with a half-bridge bidirectional DC/DC cell topology is chosen...

In hybrid and renewable energy system, multiple-input converter is the best choice to integrate various input sources for supplying power to the load. In this paper, a multi-input DC-DC converter having ability to transfer energy from one of the sources to the energy storage source is presented. This feature results in improved reliability. In addition to this, energy sources having distinct vo...

A DC-DC converter is designed according to the request of the electric propulsion system for a fuel cell sightseeing car. The converter adopts a simple topography full bridge circuit. The main switch transistors are driven by the module TL494, based on pulse-width modulation method. A high accuracy linear optical coupler is used to isolate analogy signal in order to guarantee the stabilization ...

Fuel cells are new alternative energy resource that has a great promise for distributed generation and electric vehicle application. However, fuel cells have a slow response due to their slow internal electromechanical and thermodynamic response. To optimize the fuel cell system performance, a fuel cell DC-DC converter with an appropriate controller which can regulate the power flow and automat...

 Traditional high-frequency pulse width modulation (PWM) inverters for motor drives have several problems associated with their high frequency switching which produces high voltage change (dV/dt) rates. Multilevel inverters solve these problems because their devices switch at the fundamental frequency. Two different multilevel topologies are identified for use as a converter for electric drive...

Matrix converters have attracted an amount of interest over the past 25 years already, but they find time after time once again new utilisation. The presented paper deals with the recent concept of hybrid and power splitting traction drive systems. Special attention is paid to electric power splitting. In the investigated system a traction induction motor is employed. The matrix converter reali...

Two types of prime movers are continuously applied for rotating machinery: mechanical and electric drives. This tutorial focuses on electric drives, which are actually composed of separate components: electric motor, frequency converter (optional), and electric network including transformers. The main aim of this tutorial is to explain the phenomena of electric drives related to the torsional v...