A unified power flow controller (UPFC) based on the flying capacitor (FC) multilevel voltage-source converter (VSC) topology with phase-shifted sinusoidal pulse-width modulation (PWM) control is presented. This converter allows higher power handling, potentially lower power loss, lower harmonic distortion and hence less filtering requirements when compared with the typical two-level counterppar...

STUDY OF A HIGH-EFFICIENT WIDE-BANDGAP DC-DC POWER CONVERTER FOR SOLAR POWER INTEGRATION Yashwanth Bezawada Old Dominion University, 2017 Director: Dr. Yucheng Zhang This research focuses on the design and analysis of a Boost cascaded Buck-Boost (BoCBB) power converter with super high efficiency in electric power conversion. The BoCBB power converter is based on emerging wide-bandgap silicon-ca...

Abstract: Harmonic pollution and low power factor in power systems caused by power converters have been of great concern. To overcome these problems several converter topologies using advanced semiconductor devices and control schemes have been proposed. In this paper a new three-level ac–dc single-stage converter that can operate with standard phase-shift pulse width modulation is proposed.The...

An ultrasonic welding system typically consists of four components: power supply, PZT converter, booster and horn. Among them, PZT converter converts electrical power into mechanical power. To improve the power delivery, the input electrical impedance of converter should be reduced. In the present study, influences of piezoelectric ring thickness and thickness of matching and backing layers on ...

* This project is funded under the NASA-KSC STTR-Phase I Program. ABSTRACT A single-stage power factor correction converter with softswitching is proposed in this paper. The topology of this converter is derived by adding a resonant circuit to an existing Single-Stage, Single-Switch Power Factor Correction (S PFC) converter. As a result, zero-voltage-switching and zero-current-switching are ach...

This paper presents the Zero-Voltage Switching (ZVS) performance of Dual Active Bridge (DAB) DC-DC converter for high power density aerospace applications. Switching transitions of the transistor occurring in favorable conditions such as device zero-voltage or zero-current is called as soft-switching. The benefits of soft-switching are reduced switching losses, switch stress, low electromagneti...

Dc-dc power converters are employed in a variety of applications, including power supplies for personal computers, office equipment, spacecraft power systems, laptop computers, and telecommunications equipment, as well as dc motor drives. The input to a dc-dc converter is an unregulated dc voltage Vg. The converter produces a regulated output voltage V, having a magnitude (and possibly polarity...

This paper proposes a new solar power generation system, which is composed of a DC/DC power converter and a new seven-level inverter. The DC/DC power converter integrates a DC-DC boost converter and a transformer to convert the output voltage of the solar cell array into two independent voltage sources with multiple relationships. This new seven-level inverter is configured using a capacitor se...

‎ In this paper, the stand-alone photovoltaic system for cathodic protection of underground pipelines is presented. The proposed system offers continuous and automatic adjustment of the applied voltage so that the buried pipelines receive the exact current. A modified perturb and observe (P&O) algorithm for maximum power point tracking (MPPT) is used to improve dynamic and steady state performa...