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Article

Noncascading Quadratic Buck-Boost Converter for Photovoltaic Applications

by
Rodrigo Loera-Palomo
1,*,
Jorge A. Morales-Saldaña
2,
Michel Rivero
3,
Carlos Álvarez-Macías
4 and
Cesar A. Hernández-Jacobo
4
1
CONACYT–TecNM/Instituto Tecnológico de La Laguna, Torreón 27000, Mexico
2
Facultad de Ingeniería, UASLP, San Luis Potosí 78290, Mexico
3
Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales, Unidad Morelia, UNAM, Morelia 58190, Mexico
4
TecNM/Instituto Tecnológico de La Laguna, Torreón 27000, Mexico
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Micromachines 2021, 12(8), 984; https://doi.org/10.3390/mi12080984
Submission received: 13 July 2021 / Revised: 15 August 2021 / Accepted: 16 August 2021 / Published: 19 August 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Power Electronics Technologies for Sustainable Energy Conversion)
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Abstract

The development of switching converters to perform with the power processing of photovoltaic (PV) applications has been a topic receiving growing interest in recent years. This work presents a nonisolated buck-boost converter with a quadratic voltage conversion gain based on the I–IIA noncascading structure. The converter has a reduced component count and it is formed by a pair of L–C networks and two active switches, which are operated synchronously to achieve a wide conversion ratio and a quadratic dependence with the duty ratio. Additionally, the analysis using different sources and loads demonstrates the differences in the behavior of the converter, as well as the pertinence of including PV devices (current sources) into the analysis of new switching converter topologies for PV applications. In this work, the voltage conversion ratio, steady-state operating conditions and semiconductor stresses of the proposed converter are discussed in the context of PV applications. The operation of the converter in a PV scenario is verified by experimental results.
Keywords: switching DC-DC converters; quadratic converter; PV systems switching DC-DC converters; quadratic converter; PV systems
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Loera-Palomo, R.; Morales-Saldaña, J.A.; Rivero, M.; Álvarez-Macías, C.; Hernández-Jacobo, C.A. Noncascading Quadratic Buck-Boost Converter for Photovoltaic Applications. Micromachines 2021, 12, 984. https://doi.org/10.3390/mi12080984

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Loera-Palomo R, Morales-Saldaña JA, Rivero M, Álvarez-Macías C, Hernández-Jacobo CA. Noncascading Quadratic Buck-Boost Converter for Photovoltaic Applications. Micromachines. 2021; 12(8):984. https://doi.org/10.3390/mi12080984

Chicago/Turabian Style

Loera-Palomo, Rodrigo, Jorge A. Morales-Saldaña, Michel Rivero, Carlos Álvarez-Macías, and Cesar A. Hernández-Jacobo. 2021. "Noncascading Quadratic Buck-Boost Converter for Photovoltaic Applications" Micromachines 12, no. 8: 984. https://doi.org/10.3390/mi12080984

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Loera-Palomo, R., Morales-Saldaña, J. A., Rivero, M., Álvarez-Macías, C., & Hernández-Jacobo, C. A. (2021). Noncascading Quadratic Buck-Boost Converter for Photovoltaic Applications. Micromachines, 12(8), 984. https://doi.org/10.3390/mi12080984

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