A passive lossless snubber applied to the ACDC interleaved boost converter

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 775-785

  Gallo, Carlos Alberto ^a   Tofoli, Fernando Lessa ^b   Pinto, João Antonio Corrêa ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO JOÃO DEL REI   (Brazil)

^c Federal Institute of Education   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Interleaving techniques; Passive snubbers; Power factor correction; Soft switching

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE METHOD; ADDITIONAL CONTROL; DESIGN PROCEDURE; ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE; HIGH EFFICIENCY; INTERLEAVED BOOST CONVERTERS; INTERLEAVING TECHNIQUE; LOAD RANGE; LOSSLESS; NULL VOLTAGE; PASSIVE SNUBBERS; POWER FACTOR CORRECTION; POWER FACTOR CORRECTIONS; SOFT COMMUTATION; STATIC POWER CONVERTERS; SWITCHING LOSS;

COST REDUCTION; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR CORRECTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; SOFT SWITCHING; ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

ELECTRIC CONVERTERS;

EID: 77950800391     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2009.2033063     Document Type: Article

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