Buck-boost DC–DC converters are useful as DC grid interfaces for renewable energy resources. In the classical buck-boost converter, output voltages smaller than input voltage (the buck region) observed duty cycles between 0 and 0.5. Several recent have been designed to present higher gains. Nevertheless, those topologies show a reduced duty-cycle range, leading in region, thus require use of ve...

Impedance converters have been developed as a new type of converter besides the two other existing converters: voltage-source and current source converters. The new converter has many inherent advantages which can be used for many applications such as wind power conversion system, fuel cell system or motor drive applications. Present research works are mostly focused on using Z-source network a...

For mobile back-lighting applications, a dual-input white LED (WLED) driver using a bi-direction buck-boost converter is proposed in this paper. The proposed driver has two input terminals: battery input Vin1 and solar-cell input Vin2. Unlike conventional drivers using boost converters, step-up SC DC-DC converters, and so on, the proposed converter drives the anode and the cathode of LEDs by us...

The main core of this paper is design to generate a constant AC-output voltage irrespective of the wind speed. It is integrated with buck/buck-boost multi input DC-DC converter and a full-bridge DC-AC inverter which supplies grid/residential load in a unified structure. In this structure, each switching cycle of the proposed boost converter is divided into five switching periods. These switchin...

RONG, GUO. High Efficiency Charge Pump Based DC-DC Converter for Wide Input/ Output Range Applications. (Under the direction of Dr. Alex Q. Huang.) Portable electronic devices are taking an indispensable part in people’s everyday life. To meet the growing needs of people, the number of function blocks inside the portable devices keeps on increasing but the portable devices tend to be small and ...

This paper presents the implementation of a bidirectional dc-dc converter to protect a battery from overcharging and undercharging. The proposed converter circuit provides low voltage stresses across the switches, higher step-up and step-down voltage gains and efficiency is also high when compared to conventional boost/buck converter. The proposed control circuit controls the charging and disch...

The article discusses design of mathematical model buck and boost converter and the analysis of the optimal frequency choice of the PWM signal for IGBT. The converter is dedicated for charging and discharging of hybrid car drive super-capacitor energy storage. The main role of the converter is to optimize energy content in supercapacitor storage used to acceleration and deceleration during driv...

A renewable energy source plays an important role in electricity generation. Various renewable energy sources like wind, solar, geothermal, ocean thermal, and biomass can be used for generation of electricity and for meeting our daily energy needs. Energy from the sun is the best option for electricity generation as it is available everywhere and is free to harness. On an average the sunshine h...