Implementation of Resonant and Passive Lossless Snubber Circuits for DC-DC Boost Converter

  • Authors

    • A.N. Kasiran
    • A. Ponniran
    • A. A. Bakar
    • M.H. Yatim
    • M. K. R. Noor
    • J.N. Jumadril
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.30.22276

    Received date: November 29, 2018

    Accepted date: November 29, 2018

    Published date: November 30, 2018

  • DC-DC Boost Converter, Passive Lossless Snubber, Resonant, Soft-Switching, Switching Frequency

  • Abstract

    This paper presents the comparison of resonant and passive lossless snubber circuits implementation for DC-DC boost converter to achieve soft-switching condition. By applying high switching frequency, the volume reduction of passive component can be achieved. However, the required of high switching frequency cause the switching loss during turn-ON and turn-OFF condition. In order to reduce the switching loss, soft-switching technique is required in order to reduce or eliminate the losses at switching devices. There are various of soft-switching techniques can be considered, either to reduce the switching loss during turn-ON only, or turn-OFF only, or both. This paper discusses comparative analyses of resonant and passive lossless snubber circuits which applied in the DC-DC boost converter structure. Based on the simulation results, the switching loss is approximately eliminated by applying soft-switching technique compared to the hard-switching technique implementation. The results show that the efficiency of resonant circuit and passive lossless snubber circuit are 82.99% and 99.24%, respectively. Therefore, by applying passive lossless snubber circuit in the DC-DC boost converter, the efficiency of the converter is greatly increased. Due to the existing of an additional capacitor in soft-switching circuit, it realizes lossless operation of DC-DC boost converter.

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    Kasiran, A., Ponniran, A., Bakar, A. A., Yatim, M., Noor, M. K. R., & Jumadril, J. (2018). Implementation of Resonant and Passive Lossless Snubber Circuits for DC-DC Boost Converter. International Journal of Engineering and Technology, 7(4.30), 246-252. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.30.22276