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Highly Efficient Asymmetrical PWM FullBridge Converter for Renewable Energy

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Introduction:
With the exhaustion of the global resources and the environmental
pollution, the research on the renewable energy sources such as fuel
cells and photovoltaic cells has been gradually increased in industrial
fields. Generally, the renewable energy sources generate low-voltage
energy. The photovoltaic cells that depend on environment conditions
especially generate fluctuating low-voltage energy. Thus, a frontend
converter for fluctuating low-voltage energy is required between the
low-voltage source and load requiring high voltage. The power capacity
of these front-end converters is normally less than 250 W. As the cell
technology advances, the power capacity of front-end converter should
be increased. It can also reduce the cost per watt due to the increased
power capacity. Thus, the increased power rating of the front-end
converter is required to cope with large power rating of the advanced
cells and lower the cost per watt of the renewable energy system.

Existing system:
A steady state analysis with complete characterization of the
converter operation and small-signal ZVS-PWM converter was
introduced. It requires no additional active devices, and utilizes leakage
inductance of the power transformer to achieve ZVS. The converter
permits all switching devices to operate under ZVS by using circuit
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parasitic to achieve resonant switching. To achieve ZVS, the two legs of

the bridge are operated with a phase shift.

Drawbacks:

Narrow ZVS range of lagging-leg switches, high power losses by

circulating current, and voltage ringing across rectifier diodes.
Increases conduction losses.

Proposed system:
A full-bridge converter with asymmetrical pulse-width modulated
(APWM) control that is fixed-frequency method, which achieves ZVS
turn-on of the switches and ZCS turn-off of the output diode by utilizing
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resonance of the components. The voltage stresses across the power

switches (S1S4) of the primary side are clamped to the input voltage
and the voltage stress of the output diode is also reduced without any
voltage spike. Generally, APWM control scheme has the stress with
unbalance of the output components and the reverse recovery problem of
the secondary side of the transformer. In the APWM full-bridge
converter, these problems can be eliminated by ZCS turn-off. The
circulating current loss is also removed at the primary side of the
transformer because there is no freewheeling period, which is especially
profitable for high efficiency under fluctuating input voltage.

Advantages:

High efficiency under fluctuating input voltage.

All power switches operate under ZVS and output diode operates
under ZCS without extra components.
Minimize power losses.

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Applications:

Fuel cells.
Photovoltaic cells.

Block diagram:
Input DC
Supply

12V DC

High Frequency
Transformer

Full Bridge
Inverter

Rectifier
& Filter

Gate Driver
Circuit

Buffer Circuit
5V DC
Micro Controller
Circuit

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DC
Load