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http://dx.doi.org/10.6113/TKPE.2014.19.2.157

Low-Cost High-Efficiency Two-Stage Cascaded Converter of Step-Down Buck and Tapped-Inductor Boost for Photovoltaic Micro-Inverters  

Jang, Jong-Ho (Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Soongsil University)
Shin, Jong-Hyun (Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Soongsil University)
Park, Joung-Hu (Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Soongsil University)
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The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics / v.19, no.2, 2014 , pp. 157-163 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper proposes a two-stage step-down buck and a tapped-inductor boost cascaded converter for high efficiency photovoltaic micro-inverter applications. The proposed inverter is a new structure to inject a rectified sinusoidal current into a low-frequency switching inverter for single-phase grid with unity power factor. To build a rectified-waveform of the output current. the converter employs both of a high efficiency step-up and a step-down converter in cascade. In step-down mode, tapped inductor(TI) boost converter stops and the buck converter operates alone. In boost mode, the TI converter operates with the halt of buck operation. The converter provides a rectified current to low frequency inverter, then the inverter converts the current into a unity power-factor sinusoidal waveform. By applying a TI, the converter can decrease the turn-on ratios of the main switch in TI boost converter even with an extreme step-up operation. The performance validation of the proposed design is confirmed by an experimental results of a 120W hardware prototype.
Keywords
high efficiency; tapped-inductor; cascaded converter; low frequency inverter; micro-inverter;
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