Implementation of An Active-Clamped Full-Wave ZCS of

Quasi-Resonant Boost Converter in Power Factor Correction

Application

PRESENTED BY GUIDED BY

V.SENTHIL NAYAGAM, Mrs. JAYARAMAPRADEEP M.E.,(Ph.D)

Reg. No:31709415013, Associate Professor – EEE,
St.Joseph’s College of Engineering. St.Joseph’s college of Engineering.

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 Contents
 Abstract
 Block Diagram
 Conventional Circuit Diagram (Diode Clamped Full-Wave
ZCS of Quasi-Resonant Boost Converter Circuit)
 Conventional Circuit Drawbacks
 Proposed Circuit diagram and its modes of operation
(Active-Clamped Full-Wave ZCS of Quasi-Resonant Boost
Converter Circuit)
 Simulation circuit of Active-Clamped Full-Wave ZCS of
Quasi-Resonant Boost Converter Circuit and results
 Hardware Circuit and results
 Advantages
 Conclusion
 References
 Abstract
 Boost converter generates switching losses at turn ON and
OFF, results in reduction in the system efficiency.
 Active-Clamped Full-Wave ZCS of Quasi-Resonant Boost
Converter utilizes a soft switching method using an Active-
Clamped circuit with a resonant inductor, capacitor, auxiliary
switch and clamping diode.
 Advantage of Active-Clamped Full-Wave ZCS of Quasi-
Resonant Boost Converter is reduced switching losses and
achieve high efficiency.
 Soft switching boost converter is suitable for photovoltaic
dc/dc converters, power factor correction circuit and battery
chargers.
Block Diagram
CONVENTIONAL CIRCUIT DIAGRAM
 Conventional Circuit Drawbacks
• More EMI
• Ringing problem
• More switching losses
 Active-Clamped Full-Wave ZCS of
Quasi-Resonant Boost Converter Circuit
 Modes of Operation

Assumptions:-

 All the switching devices and passive elements

are ideal
 Input voltage (Vin) is constant
Mode1
• I/P Voltage Vi is given
• Main switch S 1 is
closed and Auxiliary
switch S2 is open
• Current starts flowing
in the circuit
• L 1 & L r Starts charging
because of i1 & iLr resp.
• Diode Db is forward
biased and current
flowing through it.
• c0 is charging.
Mode2
• In this mode resonant condition
takes place because L r andc r
comes into picture.
• Charge in c0 reverse biases the
Db
• Now current starts flowing
through c r
• Current through L r increases.
• At the end of this mode pulse
to S 1 is removed.
Mode3

• s 1 is turned off
• Its voltage is reached to VS1
During this mode
energy stored
Lr on is Cc
cdumped
o
to Ro
• discharges through
Mode4
• Here stored energy in Lr
is completely dumped
1L i 0
in Cc . 2 r Lr ,therefore Ds1
is turned off.
• Both s1 and s2 is off.
• Again L 1 and L r are
starts storing energy
(closed path is
maintained by c )
s1
Mode5
• Discharging of c 0
makes the Db forward
biased.
• Now current flows
through Db and charges
the c 0
Mode6
• Auxiliary switch s 2 is
turned on.
• Then VS 2  0
• Charge on Lr discharges Cs1
and chargesCs 2
• At the end of this mode,
pulse to s 2 is removed.
• Due to the discharging
of Cs1 ,During next cycle
the switch s1 can be
turned on at zero
voltage condition.
SIMULATION CIRCUIT DIAGRAM
AC INPUT VOLTAGE AND CURRENT
DC OUTPUT VOLTAGE
DC OUTPUT CURRENT
DC OUTPUT POWER
Hardware Diagram

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 Hardware circuit

• The overall hardware circuits involves

• Power supply circuits
• PIC Microcontroller
• Driver circuit
• Active-Clamped Full-Wave ZCS of Quasi-Resonant
Boost Converter Circuit

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Hardware circuit

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Pulses for switch S1 & S2

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Driver output

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 ADVANTAGES

• Reduce the EMI

• Switching losses are less due to ZCS
• Improve the efficiency
 Applications
• Telecom applications
• Lamp Load.
• DC Motor Load.
 CONCULSION

 
• In this Paper, A topology called active-clamped full-wave zero-current
switched quasi-resonant boost converters has been demonstrated.
• Its basic operation principles and experimental results have been
presented.
• This new topology has proven to be able to alleviate the voltage
ringing phenomena during switch turn-off period on a full-wave ZCS-
QR boost converter. Beside that, active clamp circuit also gives
additional benefit by adding ZVS characteristic to current converter.
• It has been shown that this technique performance is better if compared
to former simple diode clamp topology in terms of efficiency, voltage
regulation, and conducted EMI characteristics.
 Reference
1. E. Firmansyah, S. Abe, M. Shoyama “An Active-Clamped Full-
Wave Zero-Current-Switched Quasi-Resonant Boost
Converter in Power Factor Correction Application “2010 IEEE
2. E. Firmansyah, S. Tomioka, S. Abe, M. Shoyama, T. Ninomiya,
“Zero Current Switch-Quasi Resonant Boost Converter
Performance in Power Factor Correction Application” ,Proc.
of APEC 2009, pp. 1165-1169..
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4.Muhammad Rashid ,” Power electronics
circuits ,devices and application ”.
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6.www.mathworks.com
7.http://www.epanorama.net/links/psu_general.htm
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