Parallel resonant DC link circuit-a novel zero switching losstopology with minimum voltage stresses

A parallel resonant DC link (PRDCL) circuit topology is proposed as an approach to realizing zero switching loss DC-AC high switching frequency power conversion. The proposed circuit is used as an interface between the DC voltage supply and a voltage source pulse width modulated (PWM) inverter to provide a short zero voltage period in the DC link of the inverter to allow zero voltage switchings to take place in the PWM inverter. The peak voltage stress on the PWM inverter switches is limited to the DC supply voltage. Another significant advantage of the circuit is that the inverter can be controlled by the conventional PWM strategy. The proposed circuit is systematically analyzed and its operation principle is explained. Design considerations and design formulas are presented. A complete zero voltage switching DC-AC system consisting of the proposed circuit and a PWM inverter was simulated on a computer     

具有软开关功能的三相谐振直流环节逆变器

为实现三相逆变器节能运行,提出一种具有软开关功能的三相谐振直流环节逆变器.直流侧的辅助谐振电路将参与换流过程,使直流环节电压在桥臂上的主开关动作之前变化到零,主开关能完成零电压软切换动作,通过降低开关损耗来实现逆变器节能运行.分析了1个开关周期内的电路工作流程.实验结果显示开关器件动作时处于软切换.因此,该辅助谐振电路结构对于研发节能型三相逆变器具有参考价值.     

节能型谐振直流环节逆变器

为改善逆变器的运行效率,提出了一种节能型三相谐振直流环节软开关逆变电路,在直流环节增设了辅助电路.当主开关需要切换时,提前使辅助电路进入谐振状态,将直流环节电压变化到零,保证主开关完成零电压软切换,并且辅助开关也能完成软切换.通过控制辅助开关切换的间隔时间来调节直流环节电压保持为零的时间,使逆变器能根据需要来调整脉宽调制策略.详细说明了电路的工作过程.实验结果表明逆变器主开关和辅助开关能完成软切换.因此,该拓扑结构对于研发高性能谐振直流环节逆变器具有借鉴意义.     

Auxiliary resonant commutated pole inverter using two internalvoltage-points of DC source

This paper presents a new auxiliary resonant commutated pole inverter that has series-connected batteries as the DC source. This inverter has two main switches and two auxiliary switches, and of all these devices achieve soft switching. The resonant operations are employed only during the commutating intervals; therefore, pulsewidth modulation (PWM) can be applied to the circuit. This circuit has the feature of using two internal voltage points of the DC source. Consequently, the circuit has the advantages of stability, simplicity in control, and high efficiency. The principle of the circuit operation and the experimental results are described in this paper     

Interleaved soft switching resonant converter with a small input ripple current

ABSTRACT

An interleaved frequency control soft switching converter is studied for solar power or fuel cell power applications. The proposed circuit topology contains two parallel current-fed circuit cells with interleaved pulse-width modulation operation. Thus, the ripple currents at input and output terminals are decreased. In each circuit cell, the proposed current-fed dc-dc converter includes boost circuit and resonant circuit to achieve current ripple-free on low voltage side and less switching losses on active devices. The boost circuit and the resonant circuit have same active devices to decrease power switches. Due to the resonant behaviour, the reverse recovery current loss on secondary diodes is removed. The voltage doubler circuit topology is accomplished on secondary-side to reduce diode counts and conduction loss. The performance and effectiveness of the developed interleaved PWM current-fed converter are verified and confirmed by experiments.     

An improved self-resonant PWM forward converter

This paper presents a forward converter with a nondissipative cell which provides a soft switching converter operation. This approach is based on the principle of self-resonance, that is: an auxiliary voltage source feeds the resonant circuit, charging a capacitor which provides the condition for zero voltage switching (ZVS) turn on and turn off of the switches. The complete operating principle, relevant equations, simulation, and experimental results are presented     

单相两级有源功率因数校正变换器的研究

文中对两级有源功率因数校正变换器进行研究,设计了一台510W两级式开关电源。该电源前级采用平均电流控制的Boost型PFC电路,实现功率因数校正;后级采用不对称半桥型DC／DC变换器,实现开关管的零电压开关。控制电路采用PFC／PWM复合控制芯片ML4824,缩小电源体积。通过实验证实该开关电源具有高功率因数与高效率的特点。     

具有低能耗辅助电路的并联谐振直流环节逆变器

为提高逆变器的转换效率,提出了一种具有低能耗辅助谐振电路的并联谐振直流环节逆变器.在传统硬开关逆变器的直流环节添加辅助谐振电路,使直流母线电压周期性地归零,实现逆变桥主开关器件的零电压开关,而且辅助开关器件也可以实现零电压关断和零电流开通.此外,其辅助谐振电路只有一个辅助开关器件,控制简单;辅助开关和谐振元件都位于直流母线的并联支路上,有利于降低辅助谐振电路的能耗.对其工作原理进行分析,给出不同工作模式下的等效电路图和软开关的实现条件.制作一个5kW的实验样机,通过实验结果验证该软开关逆变器的有效性.     

Asymmetrical pulse-width-modulated resonant DC/DC convertertopologies

This paper presents asymmetrical pulse-width-modulated (APWM) DC/DC resonant converter topologies that exhibit near-zero switching losses while operating at constant and very high frequencies. The converters include a bridged chopper to convert the DC input voltage to a high-frequency unidirectional AC voltage, which in turn is fed to a high-frequency transformer through a resonant circuit. The bridged chopper has two switches that alternately conduct. The duty cycles of the conduction of the switches are complementary with one another and are varied to control the output voltage. Three resonant circuit configurations suitable for this type of control are presented. Frequency domain analysis of the converter is given, and performance characteristics are presented. Experimental results for a 48-5 V, 30 W converter show an efficiency of 88% at a constant operating frequency of 1 MHz     

Hybrid Full-Bridge Three-Level LLC Resonant Converter—A Novel DC–DC Converter Suitable for Fuel-Cell Power System

This paper proposes a novel hybrid full-bridge (H-FB) three-level (TL) LLC resonant converter. It integrates the advantages of the H-FB TL converter and the LLC resonant converter. It can operate under both three-level mode and two-level mode, so it is very suitable for wide-input-voltage-range applications, such as fuel-cell power systems. Compared with the traditional full-bridge converter, the input current ripple and output filter can be reduced. In addition, all the switches can realize zero-voltage switching from nearly zero to full load, and the switches of the TL leg sustain only half of the input voltage. Moreover, the rectifier diodes can achieve zero-current switching, and the voltage stress across them can be minimized to the output voltage. A prototype of 200-400-V input and 360-V/4-A output is built in our laboratory to verify the operation principle of the proposed converter     

A Three-Level Resonant Single-Stage Power Factor Correction Converter: Analysis, Design, and Implementation

This paper presents a new single-stage power factor correction ac/dc converter based on a three-level half-bridge resonant converter topology. The proposed circuit integrates the operation of the boost power factor preregulator and the three-level resonant dc/dc converter. A variable-frequency asymmetrical pulsewidth modulation controller is proposed for this converter. This control technique is based on two integrated control loops: the output voltage is regulated by controlling the switching frequency of the resonant converter, whereas the dc-bus voltage and input current are regulated by means of duty cycle control of the boost part of the converter. This provides a regulated output voltage and a nearly constant dc-bus voltage regardless of the loading condition; this, in turn, allows using smaller switches and consequently having a lower on resistance helping to reduce conduction losses. Zero-voltage switching is also achieved for a wide range of loading and input voltage. The resulting circuit, therefore, has high conversion efficiency making it suitable for high-power wide-input-voltage-range applications. The effectiveness of this method is verified on a 2.3-kW 48-V converter with input voltage (90–265 Vrms).      

新型单相软开关AC-DC-AC变换器

为改善单相AC-DC-AC变换器的性能,提出了一种单相谐振直流环节零电压开关AC-DC-AC功率变换器拓扑结构,由图腾柱式单相整流器,位于直流环节的辅助谐振电路和单相全桥逆变器组成.利用同一组辅助电路能分别将整流器输出端电压和逆变器输入端电压变化到零,使整流器和逆变器桥臂上的开关器件分别实现零电压切换.分析了电路的工作流程,在1.2kW样机上的实验结果表明开关器件完成了软切换.该拓扑结构对于研发节能型单相AC-DC-AC变换器具有借鉴意义.     

Novel zero-voltage and zero-current-switching full bridge PWMconverter using transformer auxiliary winding

A novel zero voltage and zero current switching (ZVZCS) full bridge (FB) pulse width modulation (PWM) converter is proposed to improve the demerits of the previously presented ZVZCS-FB-PWM converters, such as use of lossy components or additional active switches. A simple auxiliary circuit which includes neither lossy components nor active switches provides ZVZCS conditions to primary switches, ZVS for leading-leg switches and ZCS for lagging-leg switches. Many advantages including simple circuit topology, high efficiency, and low cost make the new converter attractive for high power (>2 kW) applications. The operation, analysis, features and design considerations are illustrated and verified on a 2.5 kW, 100 kHz insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) based experimental circuit     

A New PWM-Controlled Quasi-Resonant Converter for a High Efficiency PDP Sustaining Power Module

A new pulsewidth modulation (PWM)-controlled quasi-resonant converter for a high-efficiency plasma display panel (PDP) sustaining power module is proposed in this paper. The load regulation of the proposed converter can be achieved by controlling the ripple of the resonant voltage across the primary resonant capacitor with a bidirectional auxiliary circuit, while the main switches are operating at a fixed duty ratio and fixed switching frequency. Hence, the waveforms of the currents can be expected to be optimized from the view-point of conduction loss. Furthermore, the proposed converter has good zero-voltage switching (ZVS) capability, simple control circuits, no hign-voltage ringing problem of rectifier diodes, no dc offset of the magnetizing current and low-voltage stresses of power switches. Thus, the proposed converter shows higher efficiency than that of a half-bridge LLC resonant converter under light load condition. Although it shows the lower efficiency at heavy load, because of the increased power loss in auxiliary circuit, it still shows the high efficiency around 94%. In this paper, operational principles, features of the proposed converter, and analysis and design considerations are presented. Experimental results demonstrate that the output voltage can be controlled well by the auxiliary circuit using the PWM method.      

Active-clamp ZVS converter with step-up voltage conversion ratio

This article presents the circuit implementation and design considerations of a zero voltage switching (ZVS) converter with voltage step-up for battery-based applications. An active-clamp circuit including one auxiliary switch and one clamp capacitor is connected in parallel with the main switch to allow resonant behaviour by the output capacitances of switches and transformer leakage inductance during the transition interval. Thus, the ZVS turn-on of switches can be achieved. The switching losses and thermal stresses of the semiconductors are reduced. The circuit configuration, operation principle and design considerations of the converter are discussed in detail. Finally, experiments conducted on a laboratory prototype rated at 200 W are provided to verify the theoretical analysis and the effectiveness of the proposed converter.     

Analysis,design and implementation of an interleaved three-level PWM DC/DC ZVS converter

This paper presents a new parallel three-level soft switching pulse-width modulation (PWM) converter. The proposed converter has two circuit cells operated by the interleaved PWM modulation. Thus, the ripple currents at input and output sides are reduced. Each circuit cell has two three-level zero voltage switching circuits sharing the same power switches. Therefore, the current and power rating of the secondary side components are reduced. Current double rectifier topology is selected on the secondary side to decrease output ripple current. The main advantages of the proposed converter are soft switching of power switches, low ripple current on the output side and low-voltage rating of power switches for medium-power applications. Finally, the performance of the proposed converter is verified by experiments with 1 kW prototype circuit.     

Quasi-parallel resonant DC link inverter with improved PWMcapability

A quasi-parallel resonant DC-link (QPRDCL) circuit with improved PWM capability is proposed for the zero voltage switching (ZVS) three phase PWM inverter. The circuit has minimum voltage stresses and improved PWM capability due to the flexible selectability of the on/off instants of the resonant link     

Zero-voltage DC/DC converter with asymmetric pulse-width modulation for DC micro-grid system

This paper presents a zero-voltage switching DC/DC converter for DC micro-grid system applications. The proposed circuit includes three half-bridge circuit cells connected in primary-series and secondary-parallel in order to lessen the voltage rating of power switches and current rating of rectifier diodes. Thus, low voltage stress of power MOSFETs can be adopted for high-voltage input applications with high switching frequency operation. In order to achieve low switching losses and high circuit efficiency, asymmetric pulse-width modulation is used to turn on power switches at zero voltage. Flying capacitors are used between each circuit cell to automatically balance input split voltages. Therefore, the voltage stress of each power switch is limited at V_in/3. Finally, a prototype is constructed and experiments are provided to demonstrate the circuit performance.     

High-Frequency Resonant Transistor DC-DC Converters

Transistor dc-dc converters which employ a resonant circuit are described. A resonant circuit is driven with square waves of current or voltage, and by adjusting the frequency around the resonant point, the voltage on the resonant components can be adjusted to any practical voltage level. By rectifying the voltage across the resonant elements, a dc voltage is obtained which can be either higher or lower than the input dc voltage to the converter. Thus, the converter can operate in either the step-up or step-down mode. In addition, the switching losses in the inverter devices and rectifiers are extremely low due to the sine waves that occur from the use of a resonant circuit (as opposed to square waves in a conventional converter); also, easier EMI filtering should result. In the voltage input version, the converter is able to use the parasitic diode associated with an FET or monolithic Darlington, while in the current input version, the converter needs the inverse blocking capability which can be obtained with an IGT or GTO device. A low-power breadboard operating at 200-300 kHz has been built. Two typical application areas are switching power supplies and battery chargers. The converter circuits offer improvements over conventional circuits due to their high efficiency (low switching losses), small reactive components (high-frequency operation), and their step-up/stepdown ability.     

A new quasi-resonant DC-link PWM inverter using single switch for soft switching

This paper presents a new quasi-resonant DC-link (QRDCL) inverter. Only one switching device is used to create zero voltage instants under all load conditions. The maximum voltage across the inverter devices is maintained at around (1.01-1.1) times the input source voltage. The circuit has the flexibility of selecting switching instants of the resonant link in synchronism with any PWM technique. Control technique does not require the help of inverter switches to create the zero voltage instants in the DC-link, and voltage and current sensors are eliminated from the control circuit. In this paper, the principle of operation and detailed analysis of the proposed QRDCL inverter are presented and design considerations for achieving soft switching are obtained. Detailed PSPICE simulation studies are carried out to study the feasibility of the proposed topology under various load conditions. The experimental results of the proposed QRDCL PWM inverter feeding a three phase induction motor are given.