Switched reluctance (SR) motors have high power density, high efficiency, high reliability, high fault tolerance, and low manufacturing cost. Thus, these motors have a high potential than other machines such as permanent magnet brushless motor, high-temperature super conductor motor, etc.; hence, it is well-suited for electric marine propulsion. This paper presents a new power converter and ana...

A Double input DC to DC converter for low voltage energy sources applications is proposed in this paper. The proposed converter is buck-boost converter which can step up or step down the input voltage according to output voltage required at load end. The converter is able to boost up voltage of energy sources such as solar photovoltaic and wind energy system of relatively low voltage. The conve...

In this paper, a new bidirectional buck-boost dc-dc converter with capability of soft switching and zero input current ripple is proposed. The coupled inductor is used in the proposed converter to eliminate the input current ripple. In the proposed converter, zero voltage switching (ZVS) and zero current switching (ZCS) can be obtained for the main and auxiliary switches, respectively. In addit...

The DC transfer functions for the buck, boost, and Cuk PWM DC-DC converters in continuous conductionmodearell, l / ( l D ) , and-D/( l -D) respectively, ,where D is the duty cycle. Therefore. it is reasonable to expect that the Cuk PWh4 DC-DC converter circuit [l] can be synthesized by cascading boost and buck converter circuits. The purpose of this paper is to present a systematic and rigorous...

This paper presents an analysis of the effect of parasitic resistances on the performance of DC-DC Single Ended Primary Inductor Converter (SEPIC) in photovoltaic maximum power point tracking (MPPT) applications. The energy storage elements incorporated in the SEPIC converter possess parasitic resistances. Although ideal components significantly simplifies model development, but neglecting the ...

A novel bidirectional DC-DC converter is presented in this paper. The circuit configuration of the proposed converter is very simple. The proposed converter employs a coupled inductor with same winding turns in the primary and secondary sides. In step-up mode, the primary and secondary windings of the coupled inductor are operated in parallel-charge and series-discharge to achieve high step-up ...

-The simulation of a nonlinear controller with power sharing control capabilities for a wind energy system double input buck boost–buck boost converter is presented. A multiple-input DC–DC converter is useful to obtain the regulated output voltage from input power source such as a wind array. Double input DC-DC buck boost converter principle of operation and the equations describing the convert...

Here an improved three-level integrated ac–dc converter is presented. This converter improving or boosting power factor correction. And also this converter topology is advanced than previous ac-dc converters mainly the converter is operating with two independent controllers. An input controller is used to power factor correction and it regulates the dc bus, and the output controller is used to ...

This paper presents the three phase AC/DC converter drive effects on the linearity of the Torque-speed characteristics. A MATLAB/Simulink realization of the three phase AC/DC converter drive is described. The DC motor speed control is achieved by controlling the voltage applied to the armature circuit using three phase AC/DC converter drive. A comparison between the application of three phase s...