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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2016.17.10.600

A New High-Efficient Interleaved Converter for Low-Voltage and High-Current Power Systems  

Cho, In-Ho (Propulsion System Research Team, Korea Railroad Research Institute)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.17, no.10, 2016 , pp. 600-608 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper proposes a new high-efficient interleaved phase-shift full-bridge (PSFB) converter for low-voltage and high-current power systems. The proposed converter is composed of three switch-bridges and two transformers in the primary side and two rectifiers in the secondary side. Each transformer handles half of the total power with an interleaved operation, so that the proposed converter has high system reliability, as much as the conventional interleaved PSFB converter. The soft-switching characteristics of the proposed converter are better than those of the conventional converter due to the modulated primary side configuration. The proposed converter represents a single lagging-leg bridge, which has a poor soft switching condition in its operation, while the conventional converter has two lagging-leg bridges in its operation. Therefore, the number of switches having hard-switching conditions is reduced by half in the proposed converter. In addition, the reduced switch counts in the primary side of the proposed converter helps decrease the complexity of the proposed converter compared to that of the conventional converter. The operational principle and analysis are presented in this paper and the characteristics are verified using a PSIM simulation with 3kW server power specification.
Keywords
converter; interleaved; server power system; soft-switching; ZVS;
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