A Nonisolated DC–DC Boost Converter With High Voltage Gain and Balanced Output Voltage

This paper presents a dc-dc boost converter with high voltage gain based on the three-state switching cell for split-capacitor neutral-point-clamped inverters. The proposed converter is analyzed considering the operation in continuous conduction mode and duty cycle higher than 0.5, which corresponds to overlapping mode. The main characteristics of the topology are operation at high switching frequency, whereas the input inductor is designed for twice such frequency; in order to minimize weight and volume, the voltage stress across the switches is lower than half of the output voltage and naturally clamped by one output capacitor, allowing the use of MOSFET transistors with reduced intrinsic on-resistance; the input current presents small ripple; the output voltage can be further stepped up by increasing the transformer turns ratio without compromising the voltage stress across the switches; and the output voltage is naturally balanced, thus making the converter suitable for supplying split-capacitor inverters. Several topologies where a high voltage step-up is possible are initially investigated in the literature. Then, the principle of operation and experimental results for a 1-kW prototype are presented to validate the theoretical analysis and demonstrate the converter performance.

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