In power conversion of photovoltaic (PV) energy, a hard-switching buck converter always generates some disadvantages. For example, serious electromagnetic interference (EMI), high switching losses, and stresses on an active switch (metal-oxide-semiconductor-field-effect-transistor, MOSFET), and high reverse-recovery losses of a freewheeling diode result in low conversion efficiency. To release ...

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...

The paper presents three different computational schemes for achieving space vector pulse width modulation, in the control of a multilevel flying capacitor inverter. Each scheme uses the same method of achieving cell-capacitor voltage balancing. Results of realistic simulations are used to compare and contrast these approaches. The timing control of the inverter switches and output performance ...

This paper analyzes the advantages and limitations of using the floating(or flying-) capacitor technique as a building block with differential input and either differential or single-ended output to implement voltage amplifiers, multiplexers, and coherent amplitude demodulators. Theoretical analysis, supported by experimental results, shows that the fully differential configuration has a better...

Reduced switching loss favours Pulse Skipping Modulation mode of switching dc-to-dc converters at light loads. Under certain conditions the converter operates in discontinuous conduction mode (DCM). Inductor current starts from zero in each switching cycle as the switching frequency is constant and not adequately high. A DC-to-DC buck converter is modelled and simulated in this paper under DCM....

A fully integrated successive-approximation (SAR) switched-capacitor (SC) DC–DC converter is presented that overcomes the coarse output voltage resolution limitation of traditional SC converters. An SAR SC converter cascades multiple stages of 2:1 SC converters, and achieves a fine-grained conversion ratio resolution of VIN/2 , where VIN is the input voltage and N is the number of stages. As th...

This paper presents a review and analysis of multilevel inverter topologies. Multilevel inverters are most widely used for medium-voltage high-power converter like fans, pumps and material transport drives. In this active area, different inverter topologies, circuits, advantages and drawbacks are discussed. Multilevel Inverter topologies such as diode-clamped, flyingcapacitor, cascaded H-bridge...

This paper present a pulse width modulation non-isolated buck converter using PID controller. The buck converter constituted by one Gto, one inductor, one capacitor, one diode and one load resistor. In this the buck converter connected to the PID controller, PID controller calculate an error value as the difference between a measured process variable and a desired set point. The proportional P ...

Abstract : This paper proposed a new high-voltage gain resonant switched-capacitor dc-dc converter for high-power offshore wind energy systems. The proposed new dc-dc converter is characterized by the resonant switching transitions to achieve minimal switching losses and maximum system effi ciency. Here, the converter operates at fi fteen times as high as the input voltage with a small device c...

The multilevel cascaded converters are extensively applied for high-voltage and high-power applications, which are considered as the most favorable topologies for the high power ac-drives and the high-voltage DC transmission (HVDC) systems using the voltage source converters (VSCs). This paper presents the dc capacitor balancing and effective current regulation methodologies for the multilevel ...