Magnetizing-inductance-assisted extended range soft-switching three-phase ac-link current-fed dc/dc converter for low dc voltage applications

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 3317-3328

  Xuewei, Pan ^a   Prasanna, Udupi R ^a   Rathore, Akshay ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Current fed converter; high step up; low voltage dc sources; three phase circuit; wide range zero voltage switching (ZVS)

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION RATIO; ANALYSIS AND DESIGN; CONDUCTION LOSS; CONVERTER PERFORMANCE; CURRENT-FED CONVERTER; CURRENT-SHARING; DC SOURCES; DC VOLTAGE; EXTENDED RANGE; FUEL CELL APPLICATION; HIGH STEP-UP; HIGH-VOLTAGES; INPUT VOLTAGES; LOW-VOLTAGE; MAGNETIZING INDUCTANCE; NEW DESIGN; OUTPUT POWER; PEAK CURRENTS; POWER APPLICATIONS; POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; POWER SUPPLY; RECTIFIER DIODES; SOURCE VOLTAGE; STEADY-STATE ANALYSIS; STEADY-STATE OPERATION; THREE PHASE CIRCUITS; ZERO-CURRENT SWITCHING;

DC-DC CONVERTERS; DESIGN; FUEL CELLS; INDUCTANCE; SOFT SWITCHING; ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 84872027374     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2012.2226217     Document Type: Article

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