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...

This paper presents the design of simple but powerful soft switching scheme for a DCDC Boost Converter with a closed loop control. A new novel soft switching scheme is proposed with a single switch and minimum components which offers load independent operations. The only switch used in this converter is switched ON at zero current and switched OFF at zero voltage .The proposed Controller is use...

Wearable devices require power management systems to achieve high conversion efficiency over a wide range of load currents. Multi-mode mixed modulation can be used in DCDC converters current range. The boost converter proposed this paper uses hybrid DGM (Deep Green Control Mode), PCMC (Peak mode control)-PFM (Pulse Frequency Modulation) and PCMC-PWM Width Modulation). switches smoothly from PCM...

This application note describes the use of a Fairchild QFET (FQP60N03L ) in the power supply (DC-DC converter) of computer microprocessors. Chapter 2 describes QFET’s organizational features and the improvements in its electrical characteristics based on these features. Chapter 3 outlines the required input voltage and current based on the latest trends in microprocessors, and describes the opt...

High Output Voltage Based Multiphase Step-Up DC-DC Converter topology with voltage doubler rectifiers is presented in this paper. High output voltage is obtained due to the series combination of voltage doubler rectifiers on the secondary side of high frequency transformers. This topology is useful in the application where the output voltage is greater than the input. The two loop control strat...

This paper proposes an implementation of Single Ended Primary Inductor Converter (SEPIC) converter and Voltage Source Inverter for an Induction Motor using Photovoltaic energy as a source. Generally the larger number of drives employed for industrial and commercial applications are induction motor drives. To run such kind of motor from the PV source, it is proposed to have a DCDC converter and ...

A non-isolated DC/DC converter with high transfer gain is proposed in this paper. The presented converter consists of the switched inductor and three-level converters. The DC/DC power converter is three-level boost converter to convert the output voltage of the DC source into two voltage sources. The main advantages of DC/DC converter are using low voltage semiconductors and high gain voltage. ...

This paper reports a new functional design and modeling of a vibration energy harvester composed from a mechanical resonator (MEMS), capacitive transducer and a conditioning circuit based on the BUCK DCDC converter architecture. The basic configuration of conditioning circuit from [1][2] is enhanced with two major features for the power management allowing, firstly, to adapt dynamically to the ...

Standalone photovoltaic system requires a proper battery charge controller. The main disadvantage of photovoltaic system is its variations in output voltage. Therefore to obtain a stable voltage from solar panels, DCDC converters are used. This paper explains the use of cuk converter with MPPT technique in a photovoltaic system. The MPPT is implemented by incremental conductance algorithm with ...

DC-DC converters are widely used as reliable power source for many industrial and military applications, computers and electronic devices. Several control methods were developed for DCDC converters control mostly with asymptotic convergence. Synergetic control (SC) is a proven robust control approach and will be used here in a so called terminal scheme to achieve finite time convergence. Lyapou...