Einstein International Journal Organization(EIJO)

Abstract  

With the rapid development of large-scale renewable energy sources and HVDC grid, it is a promising option to connect the renewable energy sources to the HVDC grid with a pure dc system, in which high-power high-voltage step-up dc–dc converters are the key equipment to transmit the electrical energy. This paper proposes a resonant converter which is suitable for grid-connected renewable energy sources. The converter can achieve high voltage gain using an LC parallel resonant tank. It is characterized by zero-voltage-switching (ZVS) turn-on and nearly ZVS turn-off of main switches as well as zero-current-switching turn-off of rectifier diodes; moreover, the equivalent voltage stress of the semiconductor devices is lower than other resonant step-up converters. The operation principle of the converter and its resonant parameter selection is presented in this paper. The operation principle of the proposed converter has been successfully verified by simulation and experimental results.

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