{"title":"A Transformerless Switched-Capacitor Converter Applicable for Photovoltaic Systems","authors":"S. Hasani, R. Beiranvand","doi":"10.1109/pedstc53976.2022.9767351","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A transformerless multi-input soft-switched high step-up switched-capacitor converter (SCC) suitable for high-power and high-voltage applications is going to be introduced in the present research. Zero voltage switching (ZVS) operation is provided for all power MOSFETs and diodes of the proposed topology by using active clamp circuits. Soft switching operation eliminates or significantly reduces the loss of switching so that high values of efficiency could be obtained. Moreover, the switching frequency could be highly increased as a result of soft switching operation. High switching frequency brings about high power density and passive components size reduction. Furthermore, Cockcroft-Walton voltage multiplier (CW-VM) units are employed to reach high values of voltage conversion ratio without applying high voltage stresses on the components. To approve the proper function of the proposed converter, a three phase prototype having three cell voltage multiplier (VM) units, 40 V input voltages, 925 W output power and 385 V output voltage is simulated at 150 kHz switching frequency.","PeriodicalId":213924,"journal":{"name":"2022 13th Power Electronics, Drive Systems, and Technologies Conference (PEDSTC)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2022 13th Power Electronics, Drive Systems, and Technologies Conference (PEDSTC)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/pedstc53976.2022.9767351","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A transformerless multi-input soft-switched high step-up switched-capacitor converter (SCC) suitable for high-power and high-voltage applications is going to be introduced in the present research. Zero voltage switching (ZVS) operation is provided for all power MOSFETs and diodes of the proposed topology by using active clamp circuits. Soft switching operation eliminates or significantly reduces the loss of switching so that high values of efficiency could be obtained. Moreover, the switching frequency could be highly increased as a result of soft switching operation. High switching frequency brings about high power density and passive components size reduction. Furthermore, Cockcroft-Walton voltage multiplier (CW-VM) units are employed to reach high values of voltage conversion ratio without applying high voltage stresses on the components. To approve the proper function of the proposed converter, a three phase prototype having three cell voltage multiplier (VM) units, 40 V input voltages, 925 W output power and 385 V output voltage is simulated at 150 kHz switching frequency.