• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.19 no.7
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• pp.45-52
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• 2005

This paper is studied on boost AC-DC converter of high power factor and high efficiency for discontinuous current control. The converter operated in discontinuous current control eliminates the complicated circuit control requirement, and reduces a number of components. The input current waveform in proposed circuit is got to be a discontinuous sinusoidal form in proportion to magnitude of ac input voltage under the constant duty cycle switching. Therefore, the input power factor is nearly unity and the control circuit is simple. Also the switching devices in a proposed circuit are operated with soft switching by the partial resonant method. The result is that the switching loss is very low and the efficiency of system is high. The partial resonant circuit makes use of a inductor using step up and loss-less snubber capacitor. The circuit topology of the converter is simplified. Some simulative results on computer and experimental results are included to confirm the validity of the analytical results.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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• v.55 no.8
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• pp.423-429
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• 2006

Recently, the high frequency isolated boost DC/DC converter has been widely used for the PCS (Power Conditioning System) system because of its small size and low cost. However, the high frequency isolated boost DC/DC converters applied the conventional voltage-fed converter and current-fed converter have the problems such as the high conduction losses and the surge voltage due to the high circulating current and the leakage inductance, respectively. To overcome this problems, in this paper the secondary LLC resonant converter is proposed, and the experimental results of the secondary LLC series resonant converter for boost DC/DC converter are verified on the simulation based on the theoretical analysis and the 700W experimental prototype.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 1999.07a
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• pp.622-625
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• 1999

This paper introduces a novel zero-voltage switching (ZVS)) pulse width modulation (PWM) active clamping dc-to-dc boost converter. This technique presents ZVS commutation without additional voltage stress and a significant increase in the circulating reactive energy throughout the converter. Therefore, all of the losses for the switches are minimized, and high power density system can be realized. The characteristics are verified through simulation and experimental results.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2019.07a
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• pp.267-268
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• 2019

제안하는 모듈을 기반한 고승압 및 고용량 DC/DC 컨버터는 직류 탭리액터를 인터리브드 형태와 결합한 승압형 컨버터를 모듈화하여 변압기 턴비를 작게 할 수 있고 스택을 통해 고승압에 유리하다. 연료전지 응용분야에 적용가능하며 추후 양방향제어를 통하여 전기자동차와 같은 견인구동 응용분야에도 적용할 수 있는 장점이 있다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.254-255
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 연료전지와 같은 신재생에너지원을 상용전환으로 변환시 낮은 직류전압을 높은 직류 전압으로 변환하는 승압형 DC/DC 컨버터의 고효율화 방안을 다룬다. 하드스위칭 컨버터의 경우, 스위치 소자의 병렬수 변화와 인덕터의 재질 변화, 쇼트키 다이오드의 사용으로 고효율화를 꾀한다. 소프트 스위칭 컨버터의 스위치에서 발생하는 손실을 스위칭 주파수와 공진주파수의 비로 수식적으로 해석하고자한다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.11 no.8
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• pp.2999-3004
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• 2010

In comparison with some other light sources, LED has merits such as long lifetime, pollution free, and high energy efficiency. Lately, due to development of LED with high brightness and capacity, LED, which has been applied in display system only, has applied in the field of lighting system. As power LED for lighting system can be burned out by heat problem, the driving current of power LED has to be controlled below the designed value. In this paper, power LED photovoltaic lighting system, which has the current limitting function, has been described. After photovoltaic power is generated from PV panel. it is charged into a battery. And then, after the charged power is converted to DC24[V] through a boost DC-DC converter, it is supplied to power LED at night. It has been validated by designing and testing of 72[W] power LED lighting system, which includes a PV charger, a boost DC-DC converter and a current limiter for driving power LED.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.119-127
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• 2008

In this paper, the modular line-connected photovoltaic PCS (photovoltaic power conditioning system) is proposed. A step-up DC-DC converter using a active-clamp circuit and a dual series-resonant rectifier is proposed to achieve a high efficiency and a high input-output voltage ratio efficiently. An IncCond (incremental conductance) MPPT (maximum power point tracking) algorithm that improves MPPT characteristic is used. The PV module current is estimated without using a DC current sensor. By control a inverter using a linearized output current controller, a unity power factor is achieved. All algorithms and controllers are implemented on a single-chip microcontroller and the superiority of the proposed DC-DC converter and controllers is proved by experiments.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.474-475
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 저전압 대전류응용의 양방향 절연형 DC-DC 컨버터를 제안한다. 제안한 컨버터는 직렬 공진형 컨버터를 이용한 2단 방식으로 비절연 컨버터가 전압 및 양방향 제어를 하며 절연부는 고정듀티와 고정주파수로 동작시켜 전 부하영역에서 ZCS 턴온 턴오프가 가능한 장점을 갖는다. 12V, 1000A 시작품으로 제안한 방식의 타당성을 검증하였으며 강압시 최대효율 98.5%, 승압시 최대효율 98.6%를 달성하였다.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.461-468
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• 2008

This paper presents a novel series connected DC/DC converter and a proper variable phase shift switching method in order to obtain high voltage ratio for fuel cell system. The proposed series connected DC/DC converter has same rectifier and LC filter for DC output voltage, so it can reduce the number of passive devices regardless of the converter number. In the conventional constant phase shift switching method, the proposed series connected DC converters have inverse bias output voltage. In order to overcome this problem, a simple but proper variable phase shift switching method is proposed in the a novel series connected DC/DC converter. In order to verify the proposed system, simulation and experiments are implemented.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.456-464
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• 2007

This paper proposes a novel three-phase current-fed active clamp DC-DC converter for fuel cells. A single common active clamp branch is used to limit transient voltage across the three-phase full bridge and to realize zero-voltage switching(ZVS) in all switches. To apply for the power generation system current-fed type has been combined with the three-phase power conversion system. The proposed approach has the following advantages: an increase (by a factor of three) of input current and output voltage chopping frequencies; lower RMS current through the inverter switches with higher power transfer capability; reduction in size of reactive later components and the power conditioning system; better transformer utilization; increase of the system reliability. Therefore, the proposed three-phase current-fed active clamp DC-DC converter is appropriate for the boost type DC-DC converter for fuel cells and also applicable for the photovoltaic and battery charge system. The paper details the analysis, simulation and hardware implementation of the proposed system. Finally, experimental results with the proposed PWM strategy demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed scheme on a 500W prototype converter.