Minimum Flying Capacitor for N-Level Capacitor DC/DC Boost Converter

This paper proposes a multilevel flying capacitor dc/dc boost converter (FCBC) with a small capacitance of the flying capacitor for the reduction of converter size. In this paper, the design methods for the boost inductor and the flying capacitor in the n-level FCBC are principally and experimentall...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on industry applications 2016-07, Vol.52 (4), p.3255-3266
Main Authors: Bin Ponniran, Asmarashid, Orikawa, Koji, Itoh, Junichi
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Capacitance
Capacitors
Circuits
Converters
Design methodology
Distortion
Electric potential
Flight
Flying
Flying capacitor
Inductance
Inductors
multilevel flying capacitor boost converter
output voltage ripple
Stress
Switches
Voltage
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Summary:This paper proposes a multilevel flying capacitor dc/dc boost converter (FCBC) with a small capacitance of the flying capacitor for the reduction of converter size. In this paper, the design methods for the boost inductor and the flying capacitor in the n-level FCBC are principally and experimentally confirmed. Furthermore, the boost inductor is designed based on maximum product of voltage-time, regardless the number of level. Meanwhile, the minimum capacitance of the flying capacitor is designed based on the maximum switching device voltage stress, regardless of the output voltage ripple influences. Moreover, the achieved maximum efficiency of the designed three-level FCBC is 98.5% at the output power of 1 kW. Finally, the effectiveness of small capacitances of the flying capacitor in the three-level and five-level FCBCs is analyzed. The characteristics of the distorted voltage across the input voltage source and the boost inductor, and the distorted current to the output side (output capacitor and load) are investigated with several capacitances of the flying capacitors in the three-level and five-level FCBCs. As a result, it is experimentally confirmed that the distorted voltage is drastically reduced by increasing the number of level. Besides, the distorted current is almost the same although the number of level is increased. Therefore, based on the experimental results, it is shown that small capacitance of the flying capacitor can be used in the n-level FCBC without compromising the stability of converter operation.
ISSN:0093-9994
1939-9367
DOI:10.1109/TIA.2016.2555789