Analysis and design of current-fed high step up quasi-resonant DC-DC converter for fuel cell applications

Author

Salehi, Sarvenaz ; Gharehpetian, G.B. ; Monfared, Jafar Mili ; Taheri, Meghdad ; Moradi, Hadi

Author_Institution

Electr. Eng. Dept., Amirkabir Univ. of Technol., Tehran, Iran

fYear

2013

fDate

13-14 Feb. 2013

Firstpage

442

Lastpage

447

Abstract

A Soft-Switching DC-DC Converter with low voltage and current stresses on switches and high voltage gain is proposed in this paper. The voltage and current stresses of switches are considerably reduced. As a result a reduction of switching losses in turn ON and OFF states of switching is obtained. Also, using soft-switching method results lower losses. In the result of ZCS in output diodes, reverse recovery problem of diodes is alleviated. Because of total reduction of losses, efficiency is improved. The proposed converter is a quasi-resonant converter controlled by pulse width modulation (PWM) method.

Keywords

DC-DC power convertors; fuel cells; pulse width modulation; switchgear; zero current switching; zero voltage switching; PWM method; ZCS; current stresses; current-fed high step up quasiresonant DC-DC converter analysis; current-fed high step up quasiresonant DC-DC converter design; fuel cell applications; high voltage gain; output diodes; pulse width modulation method; reverse recovery problem; soft-switching DC-DC converter; switching losses; voltage stresses; Silicon; Simulation; Switches; Windings; Fuel Cell; PWM controlled quasi-resonant converter; quasi-resonant converter (QRC); soft switching;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics, Drive Systems and Technologies Conference (PEDSTC), 2013 4th

Conference_Location

Tehran

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4481-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-4483-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PEDSTC.2013.6506748

Filename

6506748