A Novel Mega Voltage Gain Boost DC/DC Converter for DC Microgrids
摘要
Integrating renewable energy supplies with a DC microgrid requires DC/DC converter. This article proposes a new non-isolated boost DC/DC converter (NBC) which can provide lower voltage stress to switches along with high boost voltage gain (VG) and facilitate common grounding nature between supply and load. The circuit is designed by adding two control MOSFET switches, four diodes, one inductor and three capacitors. Therefore, keeping the component count of the proposed NBC to 10, high VG and low switch voltage stress is realized. The boost mode of the proposed NBC in a cycle operates on the principle of inductor charging with parallel connection of two in-built circuit capacitors and inductor discharging with added voltage of two in-built circuit capacitors across load. This article contains thorough examination on the proposed NBC in steady-state condition. The non-ideal simulation analysis of proposed NBC is performed in PSIM where voltage and current response of elements are captured at the attained VG of 19.05 with 95.3% converting efficiency. Overall, this article justifies the proposed NBC by detailed investigations through theoretical steady-state and non-ideal simulation analysis. Therefore, implementation of proposed NBC for DC microgrids is a viable solution.