A buck quadratic PWM soft-switching converter using a single activeswitch

High-switching frequency associated with soft commutation techniques is a trend in switching converters. Following this trend, a buck pulsewidth modulation (PWM) converter is presented. The DC voltage conversion ratio of this converter has a quadratic dependence on duty cycle, providing a large stepdown. This new buck quadratic PWM soft-single-switched converter, having only a single active switch, provides a high efficient operating condition for a wide load range at high-switching frequency. In order to illustrate the operating principle of this new converter, a detailed study including theoretical analysis, relevant equations and simulation, and experimental results is carried out     

一种宽输入电压范围软开关电流型DC/DC转换器

针对太阳能光伏及燃料电池等领域电源需要较宽输入电压范围的需求,提出一种通用的具有较宽输入电压范围的软开关电流型DC/DC转换器。该转换器采用了固定频率混合调制设计,可以在所有工作条件下实现半导体器件的软开关工作,并采用电流馈电技术以便适用于低电压高电流的电源。相较于传统转换器,该转换器更为通用,能够实现零电压开关和零电流开关,并且能够在输入电压和负载变化出现较大变化时控制输出电压。实验结果显示,在20-60V输入电压范围内且负载出现变化时,该转换器均表现出良好的性能。     

Resonant link bidirectional power converter. I. Resonant circuit

This paper proposes a novel resonant circuit capable of PWM operation with zero switching losses. The resonant circuit is aimed at providing zero voltage intervals in the DC link of the PWM converter during the required converter device switching periods, and it gives minimum DC bus voltage stresses and minimum peak resonant current. It requires only two additional switches compared to a conventional PWM converter. It is observed that the resonant circuit guarantees the soft switching of all the switching power devices of converters including the switches for resonant operation. Simulation results and experimental results are presented to verify the operating principles     

DC-DC converter: four switches V/sub pk/=V/sub in//2, capacitive turn-off snubbing, ZV turn-on

A new four-switch full-bridge dc-dc converter topology is especially well-suited for power converters operating from high input voltage: it imposes only half of the input voltage across each of the four switches. The two legs of a full-bridge converter are connected in series with each other, across the dc input source, instead of the usual topology in which each leg is connected across the dc source. The topology reduces turn-off switching losses by providing capacitive snubbing of the turn-off voltage transient, and eliminates capacitor-discharge turn-on losses by providing zero-voltage turn-on. (Switching losses are especially important in converters operating at high input voltage because turn-on losses are proportional to the square of the input voltage, and turn-off losses are proportional to the input voltage). The topology is suitable for resonant and nonresonant converters. It adds one bypass capacitor and one commutating inductor to the minimum-topology full-bridge converter (that inductor is already present in many present-day converters, to provide zero-voltage turn-on, or is associated with one or two capacitors to provide resonant operation), and contains a dc-blocking capacitor in series with the output transformer, primary winding, and some nonresonant converters (that capacitor is already present in resonant power converters). The paper gives a theoretical analysis, and experimental data on a 1.5-kW example that was built and tested: 600-Vdc input, 60-Vdc output at up to 25A, and 50-kHz switching frequency. The measured performance agreed well with the theoretical predictions. The measured efficiency was 93.6% at full load, and was a maximum of 95.15% at 44.8% load.     

用开关电容网络改善DC-DC变换器性能的研究

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A new ZVT-ZCT-PWM DC-DC converter

In this paper, a new active snubber cell is proposed to contrive a new family of pulse width modulated (PWM) converters. This snubber cell provides zero voltage transition (ZVT) turn on and zero current transition (ZCT) turn off together for the main switch of a converter. Also, the snubber cell is implemented by using only one quasi resonant circuit without an important increase in the cost and complexity of the converter. New ZVT-ZCT-PWM converter equipped with the proposed snubber cell provides most the desirable features of both ZVT and ZCT converters presented previously, and overcomes most the drawbacks of these converters. Subsequently, the new converter can operate with soft switching successfully at very wide line and load ranges and at considerably high frequencies. Moreover, all semiconductor devices operate under soft switching, the main devices do not have any additional voltage and current stresses, and the stresses on the auxiliary devices are at low levels. Also, the new converter has a simple structure, low cost and ease of control. In this study, a detailed steady state analysis of the new converter is presented, and this theoretical analysis is verified exactly by a prototype of a 1-kW and 100-kHz boost converter.     

基于PWM变换器的新型无源无损软开关

详细分析了一种基于PWM变换器的新型无源无损软开关，并给出了其最优化设计步骤。通过一台满载输出功率为900w的带有该无源无损软开关的Boost变换器验证了其开关管实现零电流开通和零电压关断，并与传统的Boost变换器比较，验证其具有较高的效率。     

高频软开关PWM功率变换技术的发展与现状

本文介绍了三类零电压软件开关ＰＷＭ变换器和两类零电流软件开关ＰＷＭ变换器的特点和工作原理。     

A new family of isolated converters that uses the magnetizinginductance of the transformer to achieve zero-voltage switching

A new family of isolated, zero voltage switched power converters which utilizes the magnetizing inductance of the transformer to achieve zero voltage turn-on of the primary switches is proposed. By employing saturable inductor(s) on the secondary side, soft turn-off of the output rectifier(s) is obtained with a minimum circulating energy flowing through the power converter. The proposed converters can operate either with a variable or a constant switching frequency. A complete DC analysis and design guidelines for the half-bridge topology are described, and the performance of a 100 W experimental power converter is presented     

Multifunctional Grid-Connected Multimodule Power Converters Capable of Operating in Single-Pulse and PWM Switching Modes

Pulsewidth-modulated (PWM) techniques equip power converters with unique features such as input-output linearity and control flexibility. Nevertheless, frequent switching of semiconductor switching devices causes considerable switching loss, and therefore makes traditional two-level PWM converters inappropriate for high-power applications. Two alternatives for building modular structures, namely multipulse and multimodule PWM converters were introduced to provide not only voltage and current sharing among the semiconductor switching devices, but also a high-quality output voltage at a much lower switching frequency. While multipulse converters offer minimal switching losses, low-order harmonic neutralization, and the best utilization of the inverter, multimodule PWM converters give control flexibility and power structure simplicity. This paper combines these two, and preserves the advantages of both multipulse and multimodule PWM converters. This not only provides an additional degree of freedom for voltage control, but also enables the converter to operate in PWM mode during transient and in single-pulse mode during the steady state. For the PWM switching mode, a special space vector strategy of 3 p.u. switching frequency is presented to maximize the voltage utilization and maintain a linear transfer characteristic. The power structure and control methods are analyzed, and validated by simulation and experimentally.     

Transformerless DC-to-DC converters with large conversion ratios

A novel switching DC-to-DC converter is introduced in which large voltage step-down ratios can be achieved without a very small duty ratio and without a transformer. The circuit is an extension of the Cuk converter to incorporate a multistage capacitor divider. A particularly suitable application would be a 50 V to 5 V converter in which DC isolation is not required. The absence of a transformer and a larger duty ratio permits operation at a high switching frequency and makes the circuit amenable to partial integration and hybrid construction techniques. An experimental 50 W three-stage voltage divider Cuk converter converts 50 V to 5 V at 500 kHz, with an efficiency higher than that for a basic Cuk converter operated at the same conditions. A corresponding voltage-multiplier Cuk converter is described, as well as dual buck-boost-derived step-down and step-up converters     

Series resonant converter with auxiliary winding turns: analysis,design and implementation

Conventional series resonant converters have researched and applied for high-efficiency power units due to the benefit of its low switching losses. The main problems of series resonant converters are wide frequency variation and high circulating current. Thus, resonant converter is limited at narrow input voltage range and large input capacitor is normally adopted in commercial power units to provide the minimum hold-up time requirement when AC power is off. To overcome these problems, the resonant converter with auxiliary secondary windings are presented in this paper to achieve high voltage gain at low input voltage case such as hold-up time duration when utility power is off. Since the high voltage gain is used at low input voltage cased, the frequency variation of the proposed converter compared to the conventional resonant converter is reduced. Compared to conventional resonant converter, the hold-up time in the proposed converter is more than 40ms. The larger magnetising inductance of transformer is used to reduce the circulating current losses. Finally, a laboratory prototype is constructed and experiments are provided to verify the converter performance.     

频率调制抑制DC／DC变换器EMI的研究

开关电源是采用高速半导体器件来进行电能转换的,开关切换过程中产生的电压电流尖峰造成了严重的EMI问题。常规的DC／DC变换器工作在频率固定的PWM模式下,频谱是离散的,开关频率和低次谐波的能量尖峰很高。文章研究了频率调制技术抑制DC／DC变换器EMI噪声的效果,通过对一台Boost变换器样机进行周期频率调制,证明了频率调制技术对抑制DC／DC变换器EMI的有效性。     

Engineering design of lossless passive soft switching methods forPWM converters. I. With minimum voltage stress circuit cells

This paper presents the analysis and design methodology of lossless passive soft switching converters from an engineering perspective. The circuit operation and soft switching loss analysis are detailed and an intuitive procedure is derived that enables quick and accurate design. Analysis is given for a set of soft switching circuit cells with minimum switch voltage stress used to synthesize a family of soft switching converters. The design is based on minimizing switching losses while maintaining soft switching over the desired operating range. A new simple loss model is derived to optimize the values of the resonant components for a particular design. As an example of the design procedure, a PFC boost converter is designed and tested     

Novel Family of PWM Soft-Single-Switched DC–DC Converters With Coupled Inductors

In this paper, a novel family of pulsewidth-modulation soft-single-switched dc–dc converters without high voltage and current stresses is described. These converters do not require any extra switch to achieve soft switching, which considerably simplifies the control circuit. In all converter family members, the switch is turned on under zero-current condition and is turned off at almost zero-voltage condition. From the proposed converter family, the boost topology is analyzed, and its operating modes are explained. The presented experimental results of a prototype boost converter confirm the theoretical analysis.      

Conducted EMI Reduction in Power Converters by Means of Periodic Switching Frequency Modulation

Spread spectrum clock generation techniques were originally developed to reduce electromagnetic interference (EMI) in communications and microprocessor systems working in the range of hundreds of megahertz. Nowadays, the switching frequency of power converters has been increasing up to values that make worthy the application of such switching frequency modulation techniques to reduce EMI emissions in power converters. Although random modulations have been applied before to power converters, periodic patterns can provide some advantages. First, theoretical principles of frequency modulation using three periodic patterns for the modulating function are presented. The influence of some important modulation parameters on the EMI reduction is analyzed and some considerations about the EMI filters design are also presented. The effectiveness of such methods in terms of EMI reduction is demonstrated theoretically and confirmed with experimental results obtained from tests carried out on two converters. The first one is a 2.5 W buck converter that can be switched up to 1 MHz and the second one is a 600 W boost converter switching at 40 kHz. In both cases, attenuations obtained in conducted EMI are evaluated. Finally, special attention has been paid to input current and output voltage ripple in order to evaluate possible undesired side-effects produced by this technique.     

State-plane analysis of zero-current-switching resonant DC/DC powerconverters

The state-plane analysis for the buck, boost, buck/boost, and Cuk zero-current-switching resonant DC/DC power converters is presented. Simple visual criteria are introduced to determine whether the converter is operating in a mode producing voltage conversion. It is shown that the voltage conversion takes place within the converters if and only if both horizontal and vertical straight-line segments are present in the state-plane graph. The boundary of energy conversion is identified from the state plane by the evaporation of one or both straight-line segments. Formulas are found for the normalized switching frequency at this boundary that depend on the value of normalized switching voltage     

Soft switching resonant converter with duty-cycle control in DC micro-grid system

Resonant converter has been widely used for the benefits of low switching losses and high circuit efficiency. However, the wide frequency variation is the main drawback of resonant converter. This paper studies a new modular resonant converter with duty-cycle control to overcome this problem and realise the advantages of low switching losses, no reverse recovery current loss, balance input split voltages and constant frequency operation for medium voltage direct currentgrid or system network. Series full-bridge (FB) converters are used in the studied circuit in order to reduce the voltage stresses and power rating on power semiconductors. Flying capacitor is used between two FB converters to balance input split voltages. Two circuit modules are paralleled on the secondary side to lessen the current rating of rectifier diodes and the size of magnetic components. The resonant tank is operated at inductive load circuit to help power switches to be turned on at zero voltage with wide load range. The pulse-width modulation scheme is used to regulate output voltage. Experimental verifications are provided to show the performance of the proposed circuit.     

IOT Based Augmented Perturb-and-Observe Soft Switching Boost Converters for Photovoltaic Power Systems in Smart Cities

This paper focuses on IOT based soft switching boost converter based solar energy applications for smart cities and making cities smarter and greener around the globe. It presents one of the applications of the Internet of Things to design and implementation of a highly efficient boost converter used for powering the Arduino and the Bluetooth device for controlling the switching of the led and buzzer by using smart city applications. The soft switching boost converter is essential to maximize the low-level voltage obtained from the solar board to the enhanced voltage conversion ratio for the efficient electric power generation. In this paper, the three separate methodologies of DC–DC boost converters with additional resonant/snubber circuit and resistive load associated with solar panel modules proposed with maximum power point tracking (MPPT) control. The MPPT is obtained by modified augmented perturb and observe algorithm. IoT helps Smart City(SC) systems to support various network functions throughout the generation, transmission, distribution and consumption of energy by incorporating IoT devices (such as sensors, actuators and smart meters), as well as by providing the connectivity, automation and tracking for such devices. It is utilized to extract the most extreme power from solar panel by controlling the duty ratio of the suggested soft switching based boost converter. In this paper a smart IOT system is used to control and monitoring the effect of reference power variations, parameter values to the voltage control to the converter. The solar panel, boost converter and the MPPT is modeled using MATLAB/SIMULINK environment and reach the power transfer efficiency up to 97%.     

Novel zero-voltage-transition PWM converters

To date, soft-switching techniques applied to the PWM converters, with the exception of a few isolated cases, are subjected to either high switch voltage stresses or high switch current stresses, or both. A new class of zero-voltage-transition PWM converters is proposed, where both the transistor and the rectifier operate with zero-voltage switching and are subjected to minimum voltage and current stresses. Breadboarded converters are constructed to verify the novelty of the proposed new family of converters