DC-DC converters, common in battery-driven, portable, and other high-efficiency systems, can deliver efficiencies greater than 95% while boosting, reducing, or inverting supply voltages. Resistance in the power source is one of the most important factors that can limit efficiency. This application note describes the effects of source resistance, how to calculate efficiency, real-world considera...

Fuel cells are new alternative energy resource that has a great promise for distributed generation and electric vehicle application. However, fuel cells have a slow response due to their slow internal electromechanical and thermodynamic response. To optimize the fuel cell system performance, a fuel cell DC-DC converter with an appropriate controller which can regulate the power flow and automat...

In this paper, a comparative analysis on the bifurcative and chaotic behaviour of a current controlled buckboost converter with soft switching and hard switching is performed. The electromagnetic interference generated during hard switching and soft switching of the converter is analyzed. Simulation and measured results show that the total energy is more evenly spread over the frequency band du...

A new software tool for learning the dynamic behavior of power electronics circuits is developed for undergraduate students. This tool incorporates the merits of two well-known software packages, namely, the realistic time-domain simulation of PSpice and the parametric identification process of MatLab. Hence, without going through complicated mathematics, the students can easily obtain the tran...

--------------------------------------------------------------ABSTRACT------------------------------------------------------This paper deals with modelling and simulation of high step up DC – AC converter with micro source at the input. The 15V DC is stepped up to 230V DC using high step up DC-DC Converter. This DC is converted into AC using a single phase inverter. The DC-AC converter system i...

In this work, a zero static error proportional controller for a two-cell DC-DC buck converter is synthesized and analyzed. Under a traditional proportional control scheme, the system presents a constant error of the current supplying the output load. As the proportional feedback gain is increased, the average static error decreases. However, sub-harmonic oscillations and chaotic behavior emerge...

This paper presents efficiency analysis of the power buffering in common voltage bus systems. Operation of the power buffering is briefly described with the power control experiments. The efficiency measurement setup and performed measurements from the charging and discharging events of the ultracapacitor module with the dc-dc converter are presented. As a result, the efficiency map of the dc-d...

---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract The interconnection of small modular devices such as photovoltaic, small wind turbines and storage devices ,commonly storage batteries to a Low Voltage distribution system leads to a new energy system known as the Microgrid. This paper presents the...

Conventional voltage mode control only offers limited performance for LLC series resonant DC-to-DC converters experiencing wide variations in operational conditions. When the existing voltage mode control is employed, the closed-loop performance of the converter is directly affected by unavoidable changes in power stage dynamics. Thus, a specific control design optimized at one particular opera...

The challenge for distributed power supply engineers is to design a fast switching DC-DC converter with improved transient response, while still maintaining or increasing efficiency. This has to be achieved in the tight thermal envelope required for reliable system operation and at minimal cost. This paper discusses the use of 20V MOSFETs or the economical design of high efficiency DC-DC conver...