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Mahdi Rezvanyvardom

Mahdi Rezvanyvardom

Academic rank: Associate Professor
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7268-5358
Education: PhD.
ScopusId: 36988238600
HIndex:
Faculty: Engineering
Address: Arak University
Phone: 086-32625630

Research

Title
High step-up fully soft switched interleaved Sheppard-Taylor converter with only one auxiliary switch for PV application
Type
JournalPaper
Keywords
Soft Switching, Sheppard-Taylor, PV, Interleaved, High Gain
Year
2019
Journal Solar Energy
DOI
Researchers Amin Mirzaei naghlbari ، Mahdi Rezvanyvardom ، Majid Taati

Abstract

This paper presents a high step-up fully soft switching interleaved Sheppard-Taylor converter to be used in PV applications. The proposed converter utilizes only one auxiliary switch to create the soft switching conditions for all semiconductor devices. The converter has a simple structure, and its control circuit remains PWM. Moreover, the auxiliary switch is not located in the main power path; therefore, the conduction losses are decreased, and the overall efficiency is improved. Besides, the rate of the auxiliary switch current will be very low. On the other hand, the proposed converter has a high-voltage gain. Furthermore, all switches and other circuit elements have low current stress due to the interleaved structure in the proposed converter. The guidelines for the design consideration are presented. A 250 W, 25–250 V laboratory prototype operating at 100 kHz is implemented to verify the performance of the converter and an efficiency of 96% at full load can be achieved.