A Current Fed Two-Inductor Boost Converter with Lossless Snubbing for Photovoltaic Module Integrated Converter Applications

In this paper, a photovoltaic Module Integrated Converter (MIC) is implemented with a current fed two-inductor boost converter cascaded with a line frequency unfolder. The two-inductor boost cell is fed from a sinusoidally modulated two-phase buck converter with an interphase transformer and operate...

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Main Authors: Li, Q., Wolfs, Peter
Other Authors: Jason Lai
Format: Conference Paper
Published: IEEE 2005
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/45397
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description In this paper, a photovoltaic Module Integrated Converter (MIC) is implemented with a current fed two-inductor boost converter cascaded with a line frequency unfolder. The two-inductor boost cell is fed from a sinusoidally modulated two-phase buck converter with an interphase transformer and operates at a fixed duty cycle. The boost cell features the magnetic integration approach to combine the three cores of the two inductors and the transformer, the lossless snubbers to recover the switching losses and the silicon carbide rectifiers to avoid the reverse recovery losses. The two-inductor boost converter output interfaces with the mains via an unfolding stage, where the MOSFETs are driven by the photovoltaic gate drivers. Experimental results are provided for a 100 W converter developing a single phase 240 V 50 Hz output.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-453972017-10-02T02:27:10Z A Current Fed Two-Inductor Boost Converter with Lossless Snubbing for Photovoltaic Module Integrated Converter Applications Li, Q. Wolfs, Peter Jason Lai In this paper, a photovoltaic Module Integrated Converter (MIC) is implemented with a current fed two-inductor boost converter cascaded with a line frequency unfolder. The two-inductor boost cell is fed from a sinusoidally modulated two-phase buck converter with an interphase transformer and operates at a fixed duty cycle. The boost cell features the magnetic integration approach to combine the three cores of the two inductors and the transformer, the lossless snubbers to recover the switching losses and the silicon carbide rectifiers to avoid the reverse recovery losses. The two-inductor boost converter output interfaces with the mains via an unfolding stage, where the MOSFETs are driven by the photovoltaic gate drivers. Experimental results are provided for a 100 W converter developing a single phase 240 V 50 Hz output. 2005 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/45397 IEEE fulltext
spellingShingle Li, Q.
Wolfs, Peter
A Current Fed Two-Inductor Boost Converter with Lossless Snubbing for Photovoltaic Module Integrated Converter Applications
title A Current Fed Two-Inductor Boost Converter with Lossless Snubbing for Photovoltaic Module Integrated Converter Applications
title_full A Current Fed Two-Inductor Boost Converter with Lossless Snubbing for Photovoltaic Module Integrated Converter Applications
title_fullStr A Current Fed Two-Inductor Boost Converter with Lossless Snubbing for Photovoltaic Module Integrated Converter Applications
title_full_unstemmed A Current Fed Two-Inductor Boost Converter with Lossless Snubbing for Photovoltaic Module Integrated Converter Applications
title_short A Current Fed Two-Inductor Boost Converter with Lossless Snubbing for Photovoltaic Module Integrated Converter Applications
title_sort current fed two-inductor boost converter with lossless snubbing for photovoltaic module integrated converter applications
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/45397