An isolated step-up DC - DC converter using series connect Sine Amplitude Converters

Author

Patel, Ankur

Author_Institution

Applic. Eng., Vicor Corp., Andover, MA, USA

fYear

2015

fDate

15-19 March 2015

Firstpage

1185

Lastpage

1189

Abstract

Most of the available DC - DC converter solutions are buck converters. There are very few boost converters with the performance expected of their buck counterparts. The SAC (Sine Amplitude Converter) [1] - [3] provides an elegant method of resolving the challenges of designing DC - DC converters to provide isolated, regulated and step-up voltage transformation. A real world implementation of a 50 V to 200 V step-up DC - DC converter is described. Significant data are presented to characterize the efficiency and power density of this solution compared to conventional approaches. This technique provides a +6% increase in efficiency, more than 4 times increase in power density and high gain factors.

Keywords

DC-DC power convertors; SAC; boost converter; efficiency 6 percent; isolated step-up DC-DC buck converter; isolated voltage transformation; power density; regulated voltage transformation; series connect sine amplitude converter; step-up voltage transformation; voltage 50 V to 200 V; Arrays; Circuit faults; Density measurement; Power generation; Power system measurements; Regulators; Voltage control; DC - DC converter; bidirectional; boost; buck; high efficiency; high power density; high step-up; isolation; module; parallel; regulation; series; sine amplitude converter;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), 2015 IEEE

Conference_Location

Charlotte, NC

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APEC.2015.7104497

Filename

7104497