Experimental study of automotive interleaved boost converter for PV systems

Author

Wang, D.H. ; Cheng, K.W.E. ; Ding, Kevin ; Bao, Y.J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Hong Kong Polytech. Univ., Hong Kong, China

fYear

2013

fDate

11-13 Dec. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

DC/DC boost converter is usually selected in many applications which a low voltage needs to be stepped up. In the applications of the power rating of several kilowatts, interleaved boost converter (IBC) is excellent solution because it has better performance characteristics when compared to conventional boost converter. IBC has two single boost converters in parallel. As a result, the ripple of input current is minimized and the efficiency of power converter is improved. This paper is focused on the high efficiency boost converter realized by the improvements of hardware and algorithm.

Keywords

automotive electronics; maximum power point trackers; photovoltaic power systems; DC-DC boost converter; IBC; MPPT algorithm; PV system; automotive interleaved boost converter; maximum power point tracking; minimized input current ripple; photovoltaic system; power converter efficiency; power rating; single parallel boost converter; stepped up voltage; Batteries; Inductors; Photovoltaic systems; Voltage control; Voltage measurement; Maximum power point tracking; interleaved boost converter; photovoltaic arrays; photovoltaic distributed generation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics Systems and Applications (PESA), 2013 5th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3276-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PESA.2013.6828244

Filename

6828244