Loaded Resonant Converter for the DC to DC Energy Conversion Applications

Among the many advantages that resonant power conversion has over conventionally adopted pulsewidth modulation include a low electromagnetic interference, low switching losses, small volume, and light weight of components due to a high switching frequency, high efficiency, and low reverse recovery losses in diodes owing to a low di/dt at switching instant. This work presents a novel loaded-resonant converter for direct current (dc)-to-dc energy conversion applications. The proposed topology comprises a halfbridge inductor-capacitor inductor (L-C-L) resonant inverter and a bridge rectifier. Output stage of the proposed loaded-resonant converter is filtered by a lowpass filter. A prototype dc-to-dc energy converter circuit with the novel loaded-resonant converter designed for a load is developed and tested to verify its analytical predictions. The measured energy conversion efficiency of the proposed novel loaded-resonant topology reaches up to 88.3%. Moreover, test results demonstrate a satisfactory performance of the proposed topology. Furthermore, the proposed topology is highly promising for applications of power electronic productions such as switching power supplies, battery chargers, uninterruptible power systems, renewable energy generation systems, and telecom power supplies.