A power electronic inverter is developed for a high-frequency induction heating application. The application requires up to 160kW of power at a frequency of 1OOkHz. This power-frequency product represents a significant challenge for today's power semiconductor technology. Voltage source and current source inverters both using ZCS or ZVS are analyzed and compared. To attain the level of performa...

A new bidirectional isolated Zero-VoltageSwitching (ZVS) DC-DC converter with nonpulsating input and output current is proposed. This converter is ideally suited for battery charging application and is applied as a submodule in a battery storage system based on a modular multilevel converter (MC). The current output of the proposed DC-DC converter enables small current ripple for directly inter...

This paper presents considerations on the switching frequency and duty cycle & operating equations of softswitching BUCK chopper. These considerations are discussed and applied to selected soft-switching families such as ZVS-QRC, ZCS-QRC, ZVS-QSW-CV, ZCS-QSWCC, ZVT-PWM and ZCT-PWM [1]. The limitations on switching frequency and duty cycle are derived in terms of: chopper input voltage (Vg), cho...

This paper presents a ZVS PWM inverter with voltage clamping technique using only a single auxiliary switch. The structure is particularly simple and robust. It is very attractive for single-phase high power applications. Conduction and switching losses are reduced due to implementation of the simple active snubber circuit, that provides ZVS conditions for all switches, including the auxiliary ...

This paper presents a ZVS PWM Half-Bridge Inverter with active voltage clamping technique using the reverse recovery energy of the diodes . The structure use only a single auxiliary switch and is particularly simple and robust. It is very attractive for single-phase high power applications. Switching losses are reduced due to implementation of the simple active snubber circuit, that provides ZV...

A Class-E/Fodd high power amplifier (PA) using the distributed active transformer (DAT) is demonstrated at 29MHz. The DAT combines the output power from four VDMOS push-pull pairs. The zero voltage switching (ZVS) condition is investigated and modified for the Class-E/Fodd amplifier with a non-ideal output transformer. All lumped elements including the DAT and the transistor package are modeled...

This paper proposes a load-independent inverse class-E zero-voltage switching (ZVS) inverter. The proposed inverter achieves the constant output current and ZVS at any load resistance without control. waveforms design equations of are shown. Besides, wireless-power-transfer system was implemented using designed WPT kept voltage against variations, which denoted effectiveness validities analytic...

This paper proposes two modulation schemes for Dual Active Bridge (DAB) converters, with the aim of maximizing Zero Voltage Switching (ZVS) operation over a wide operational range. The first is ZVS-optimized constant frequency scheme, constructed based on boundary conditions ZVS operation. scheme maximizes number events across broad range and easy to implement. Additionally, variable proposed, ...

The isolated three-level DC/DC converter (ITLDC) can be used to charge electric vehicles. During the constant current charging stage, ITLDC designed realize nature zero voltage switching (ZVS). However, during is small; thus, ZVS cannot realized. This paper presents an active commutation auxiliary circuit (ACAC) for full load range ZVS. With proposed ACACs, all main switches achieve zero-voltag...

In this paper, a power supply system for hybrid renewable energy conversion is proposed, which can process PV (photovoltaic) power and wind-turbine energy simultaneously for step-down voltage and high current applications. It is a dual-input converter and mainly contains a PV energy source, a wind turbine energy source, a zero-voltage-switching (ZVS) forward converter, and a current-doubler rec...