Design and Analysis of a New Structure for Non-Isolated DC-DC Boost Converters

Subject Areas : Power electronics converters

Massoud Emamdad ¹ , Ehsan Akbari ² , Shima Karbasi ³ , Abbas Zare Ghaleh Seyyedi ⁴

1 - Electrical Engineering Department- Dezful Branch, Islamic Azad University, Dezful, Iran.
2 - Department of Electrical Engineering- Mazandaran University of Science and Technology, Babol, Iran
3 - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering- Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran
4 - Department of Electrical Engineering- Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran

Received: 2022-01-03 Accepted : 2022-05-01 Published : 2024-08-22

Keywords: Efficiency, DC-DC converter, Voltage gain, Booster,

Abstract :

Following the scarcity of non-renewable resources such as oil, gas and coal, more research is focused on the issue of high energy consumption and society's dependence on fossil fuels. The use of renewable energy and the development of microgrids can be necessary to reduce dependence on fossil fuels. Photovoltaic systems play a key role in microgrids as a source of renewable energy supply. In these systems, the output voltage of the cell is usually much lower than the voltage required by the DC bus, and as the output current increases, the amount of this voltage decreases significantly. Therefore, the presence of a step-up DC-DC converter with a wide input voltage range is necessary to connect the low-voltage cell source and the high-voltage DC bus connected to the inverter. In this paper, a new structure is presented for non-insulated DC-DC boost converters based on voltage lift technique. The proposed converter has a proper voltage gain at output and an acceptable voltage stress on switch and diodes in comparison with recent references. The proposed converter has a switch with easier control and high reliability due to the input source common point and the output load of the converter. Analysis of the voltage stress as well as selection of suitable elements along with converter analysis in continuous mode are performed and calculation validity is confirmed by presented laboratory results.

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