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ZVS-PWM Boost Chopper-Fed DC-DC Converter with Load-Side Auxiliary Edge Resonant Snubber and Its Performance Evaluations

  • Ogura, Koki (Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, The Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamaguchi University) ;
  • Chandhaket, Srawouth (Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, The Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamaguchi University) ;
  • Ahmed, Tarek (Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, The Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamaguchi University) ;
  • Nakaoka, Mutsuo (Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, The Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamaguchi University)
  • Published : 2004.01.01
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Abstract

This paper presents a high-frequency ZVS-PWM boost chopper-fed DC-DC converter with a single active auxiliary edge resonant snubber in the load-side which can be designed for power conditioners such as solar photovoltaic generation, fuel cell generation, battery and super capacitor energy storages. Its principle operation in steady-state is described in addition to a prototype setup. The experimental results of ZVS-PWM boost chopper-fed DC-DC converter proposed here, are evaluated and verified with a practical design model in terms of its switching voltage and current waveforms, the switching v-i trajectory, the temperature performance of IGBT module, the actual power conversion efficiency and the EMI of radiated and conducted emissions. And then discussed and compared with the hard switching scheme from an experimental point of view. Finally, this paper proposes a practical method to suppress parasitic oscillation due to the active auxiliary resonant switch at ZCS turn off mode transition with the aid of an additional lossless clamping diode loop, and reduced the EMI conducted emission in this paper.

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