A New ZVS Nonisolated Bidirectional DC-DC Converter with Minimal Auxiliary Element

Subject Areas : Power electronics converters

Nasrin Asadi Madiseh ¹ (Ms.C/Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University)
Majid Delshad ² (Assistant Professor/Khorasgan Branch, Islamic Azad University)

Received: 2012-01-14 Accepted : 2012-12-14 Published : 2013-01-01

Keywords: Bidirectional dc–dc converter, pulse width modulation (PWM), zero- voltage switching (ZVS), buck-boost converter, nonisolated,

Abstract :

In this paper, a new nonisolated bidirectional buck–boost dc–dc converter is introduced. The proposed converter can be operated under ZVS condition and fixed switching frequency regardless of the direction of power flow. To provide ZVS condition for switches a simple auxiliary circuit is used, that consists of an auxiliary inductor and a coupled winding to main inductor. Due to ZVS operation of switches, the reverse recovery problem of the body diode of the switches does not occur. Moreover, to provide soft switching any extra switch is not used in this converter, so its implementation and control is very simple. The experimental and simulation results of the proposed bidirectional converter are given to confirm the theoretical analysis.