Soft Switching High Voltage Gain Quasi-Z-Source DC-DC Converter With Switched-Capacitor Technique

Nonisolated high-voltage gain soft-switching dc-dc converter is an ideal candidate for distributed generation system converters. This article proposes a high-voltage gain soft switching quasi-Z-source dc-dc converter. The converter integrates a coupled inductor and switched capacitor into a quasi-Z-source network. Soft switching is achieved for all active devices in the converter by controlling the auxiliary switch S-a. By inheriting the advantages of the quasi-Z-source network and coupled-inductor/switched-capacitor, the converter has high voltage gain, high efficiency, low input current ripple, low voltage spike of main switch, and common ground. In addition, the efficiency of the converter is improved by recycling the energy of leakage inductance, resulting from an inherent active clamp of the main switch. The steady-state operation, voltage relationship, current/voltage stress, and power dissipation of each component of the converter have been analyzed and derived in detail. The properties of the proposed converter are verified by designing a 200 W prototype in the laboratory. When the input voltage is 48 V and the output voltage is 380 V, the converter efficiency reaches 96.92%, while the efficiency is 93% in a hard switching. The key waveforms of the converter obtained from the experiment agree well with the theoretical analysis results.

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This article proposes a high-voltage gain soft switching quasi-Z-source dc-dc converter that achieves high efficiency conversion, low input current ripple, and other advantages. The performance of the proposed converter is verified through experiments, which are found to be consistent with the theoretical analysis results.