Analysis and Design of Stacked Coupled Inductor Quadratic Boost Converter With a Lossless Snubber Cell

Abstract

This paper introduces the stacked coupled inductor quadratic boost converter with an inductorless, passive lossless snubber cell suited for high step-up applications with various microgrids. Some design constraints can be selected from the voltage gain techniques of the high step-up converters to obtain the solution of improvement performance of converter. The proposed converter utilizes quadratic boost converter and coupled inductor to attain high voltage gain beyond the voltage multiplier/lift cells. In this proposed converter, the use of a stacked coupled inductor type introduces the leakage inductor to snubber cell as an inductor without using an extra inductor in proposed snubber cell. Thus, a regenerative snubber cell is used to achieve a high system efficiency. Compared with earlier counterparts, the solution of attaining a high voltage gain in the proposed converter and passive lossless snubber cell leads to an increase in the converter's performance, reliability, and robustness. The theoretical expectations are supported by simulations and verified by experimental results obtained by implementing a 300-V, 120-W prototype.