This paper explains the design of a standalone Solar/ Fuel cell/ Battery hybrid power system which involves the design of individual systems along with the power management circuit. The variation of solar insolation according to the time and the Maximum Power Point Tracking’s (MPPT) Perturb and Observe (P&O) algorithm is considered in the design of solar system. Similarly, the control of fuel f...

This paper presents a high step-up boost converter with diode capacitor technique. In this topology an additional stage of voltage multiplier cells (diodes and capacitors) is incorporated into the conventional boost converter which will increase the voltage gain and efficiency of the converter. The peculiarity of this new method is that the switching losses, ripples and the stresses are low. An...

Within the photovoltaic (PV) power-generation market, the ac PV module has shown obvious growth. However, a high voltage gain converter is essential for the module’s grid connection through a dc–ac inverter. This paper proposes a converter that employs a floating active switch to isolate energy from the PV panel when the ac module is OFF; this particular design protects installers and users fro...

DC-DC boost converters are mostly employed in renewable energy system such as photovoltaic system, fuel cell and so on, because these systems generate low output voltage which is not suitable for grid connected power applications. This paper proposes an interleaved boost converter which consists of voltage doubler cell and clamped circuit to achieve large output voltage gain without extremely i...

Boost converters are needed in many applications which require the output voltage to be higher than the input voltage. Recently, boost type converters have been applied for industrial applications, and hence it has become an interesting topic of research. Many researchers proposed different impedance source converters with their unique advantages as having a high voltage gain in a small range o...

High power and high voltage gain DC-DC converters are key to high-voltage DC (HVDC) power transmission for offshore wind power. This paper presents an isolated ultra-high step-up DC-DC converter in matrix transformer configuration. A flyback-forward converter is adopted as the power cell and the secondary side matrix connection is introduced to increase the power level and to improve fault tole...

This paper presents the design and simulation of modified step-up converter with high voltage gain using quasi switched inductor capacitor. High Voltage are major requirements for renewable energy applications. The operating modes is analyzed proposed simulated MATLAB/SIMULINK platform. Key Words: gain, converter, lower duty ratio.

A new high step-up dc/dc converter is presented for renewable energy applications. The construction implementation of a dual inductor and more than one voltage multiplier cells, to obtain large step-up voltage gain, two capacitors has been placed charged during the switch-off period, energy accumulated in the dual inductor which increases the voltage gain. The MMF energy in the leakage inductan...

High step-up voltage gain nonisolated DC-DC converter have attracted much attention in photovoltaic, fuel cells and other renewable energy system applications. In this paper, by combining input current ripple-free boost cell with coupled-inductor voltage-doubler cell, an input current ripple-free high voltage gain nonisolated converter is proposed. In addition, passive lossless clamp circuit is...