The DC House project relies primarily on renewable energy sources to provide DC power to the various loads of the house. However, not all renewable sources are capable of providing power at all times of the day. A back-up energy source in the form of a battery storage system must be available to meet the electrical needs of the house. A bi-directional flyback power converter was initially designed to allow a battery to charge from as well as discharge to the 48V bus line of the DC House. The design provided a 35W prototype to demonstrate the converter’s feasibility. Further improvements to increase power output through changes in design as well as improving the control scheme of the bi-directional converter were conducted. Results allowed an increase of output power to 48W with efficiency at 82% for both charging and discharging. The improvements to the control scheme allowed for better management of charging and discharging cycles of the battery.

Energy Harvesting from Exercise Machines (EHFEM) is an ongoing project pursuing alternate forms of sustainable energy for Cal Poly State University. The EHFEM project seeks to acquire user-generated DC power from exercise machines and sell that energy back to the local grid as AC power. The end goal of the EHFEM project aims to integrate a final design with existing elliptical fitness trainers for student and faculty use in Cal Poly’s Recreational Center. This report examines whether including the DC-DC converter in the EHFEM setup produces AC power to the electric grid more efficiently and consistently than an EHFEM system that excludes a DC-DC converter. The project integrates an overvoltage protection circuit, a DC-DC converter, and a DC-AC microinverter with an available elliptical trainer modified to include an energy converting circuit. The initial expectation was that a DC-DC converter would increase, when averaged over time, the overall energy conversion efficiency of the EHFEM system, and provide a stable voltage and current level for the microinverter to convert DC power into AC power. In actuality, while including a DC-DC converter in a test setup allows the EHFEM system to function with less frequent interruptions, this occurs at the cost of lower efficiency. Testing demonstrates the EHFEM project can convert user-generated DC mechanical power into usable AC electrical power. Retrofitting existing equipment with the EHFEM project can reduce Cal Poly’s energy cost.

This diploma thesis deals with design and subsequent realization of DC / DC converter for supply of matrix LED fields for the automotive industry. Such a converter must be able to supply a current of several Amperes and a voltage of the order of tens of Volts. Matrix headlights are currently being developed by a number of automotive companies. These headlamps allow independently to control the intensity of light incident on different objects or people who are in front of a car. In addition to the front headlamps the matrix LED lights are also used in the rear and signaling lights. Here it serves mainly to create different animations that have no function except the overall enhancement appearance of the vehicle. All of these lights need power units that will be suitable to regulate current flowing into various combinations of LEDs illuminated.

A boost converter is one of the most efficient techniques to step up DC input voltage to a higher needed DC output voltage. The boost converter has many possible applications, such as in a photovoltaic system, hybrid car and battery charger. The proposed prototype in this report is a proof of concept that a Two-Phase Boost Converter is a possible improvement topology to offer higher efficiency without compromising any advantages readily offered by a basic boost. The prototype is designed to be able to handle up to 200 watts of output power with an input of 36 volts and an output of 48 volts. This paper goes through step-by-step the calculation, design, build and test of a Two-Phase Boost Converter. Calculations found in this paper were done on Mathcad and the simulations were done on LTSpice and Pspice. These include converter’s efficiency and other measures of converter’s performance. Advantages, disadvantages as well as possible improvements of the proposed topology will be presented. Data collected and analyzed from the prototype were done on a bench test, not through an actual application.

This master´s thesis puts mind to choice and suggestion of suited type of DC/DC tension converter for power supply of power LED. It shows comparison of available types of accumulators in The Czech Republic and types of DC/DC converters used in construction of the sample. The choice of available source of energy is subordinated to final weight and size of a battery. There are also some explicit requirements for the smallest possible size and highest effictivity. So the choice is aimed only for converters with a simple coil and minimum numbers of switching elements to realize the converter, for example by SMT technology. One of many possibilities is LTC3453 circuit, which is described in this thesis, assembled and measured. On the basis of this circuit the next two samples are assembled. Here I try to suppress problems from previous circuit and expand it´s possibilities by adding the control of luminance via the microcontroller ATtiny. Then is introduced the basic description of flashlight Petzl MYO XP which is available in stores.

The aim of this diploma thesis is to study the resonant converters operation. This paper is concretely specialized to design and implementation the LLC resonant converter with output power about 350 watts. LLC resonant converter is prospective solution for similar applications. The general advantages are that the power MOSFETs are working on zero voltage switching condition, which reduce the switching loss and improve EMI performance. The detailed design for the LLC resonant tank characteristics presented in this paper, which fully guarantees the ZVS condition. This study is based on replacing the rectifier and load by an equivalent resistance applies the first harmonics approximation and the assumption that the current trough the diodes of the output rectifier has a sinusoidal waveform.

The first part of this work describes the design and implementation of switch-mode power supply for control circuits for 12/2x24V 4.5A fuel cells. The introduction picks the issue of power sources in electromobiles and final design and implementation of switching power suply. The next part deals with the issues of fast-charger and generators for power transistors. It describes the structure of DC converter and control and protectin circuits of quick-charger. In the end this work describes selected driver circuits and charge tests on fast-charger as evidenced by measurements.

This master thesis deals project and realization of universal transistor converter for power electronics course. For this converter was at the same time designed control circuit and drive circuit. Next part is about the design of compact converter for DC. This converter is controlled by a microprocessor Freescale.

L'amélioration de la compacité et du rendement des convertisseurs à découpage est une problématique centrale en électronique de puissance; elle l'est encore plus à bord des satellites où chaque gramme et chaque watt comptent. Chacun des nombreux émetteurs et récepteurs radiofréquence qui équipent les satellites de télécommunication a besoin d'être alimenté par diverses tensions, converties de façon isolée à partir du bus principal de distribution de puissance. En raison des lourdes contraintes thermiques, de fiabilité et de résistance aux radiations qui pèsent sur les composants électroniques dans les applications spatiales, les degrés de liberté pour améliorer les alimentations sont restreints, en tout cas avec les technologies actuelles de semiconducteurs qualifiés (couteuses et très en retrait des performances de l'état de l'art). La commercialisation assez récente de transistors de puissance en nitrure de gallium (GaN) à canal normalement bloqué, présentant des caractéristiques électriques supérieures à celles des meilleurs MOSFET de puissance en silicium, est prometteuse sur ce point. En effet leur robustesse intrinsèque aux radiations semble permettre leur emploi dans des convertisseurs spatiaux. Le but de ce travail est l'évaluation des apports possibles de cette technologie dans la réalisation d'alimentations DC/DC isolées pour des équipements typiques des charges utiles des satellites de télécommunication. Le fonctionnement à des fréquences de découpage plus élevées avec ces composants plus performants doit, au premier abord, réduire l'encombrement des convertisseurs à rendement égal (voire meilleur) tout en continuant à respecter le cahier des charges spécifique à chaque application. La pertinence de cette hypothèse et l'architecture de mise en œuvre la plus adéquate ont été explorées pour l'alimentation faible puissance d'un récepteur RF, avec réalisation et comparaison de plusieurs maquettes de démonstration. Afin d'aborder des convertisseurs de plus fortes puissances, une étude théorique et expérimentale des pertes par commutation dans les jambes de pont de transistors GaN a été menée. Un programme de calcul de performances a été développé en Python et mis en œuvre pour identifier l'optimum global du dimensionnement d'un convertisseur Dual Active Bridge destiné à l'alimentation d'un amplificateur RF de puissance (250 W DC). Une maquette prototype a été réalisée et a démontré l'intérêt de la topologie et des composants GaN dans cette application, tout en mettant en évidence la prédominance des pertes haute fréquence des composants magnétiques parmi les pertes totales du convertisseur. Ce dernier point s'avère finalement être la principale limitation de l'approche, précieuse pour l'ingénierie, de dimensionnement optimal par le calcul : les modèles actuellement existants d'estimation des pertes dans les éléments magnétiques se révèlent insatisfaisants pour prédire les performances de ce type de convertisseur. / Improving the compactness and efficiency of switching converters is a central issue in power electronics; even more so in satellites where every gram and every watt counts. Each of the many radio-frequency emitters and receivers onboard telecommunications satellites need to be powered by various voltages, converted in an isolated way from the main power distribution bus. Due to the strong thermal, reliability and radiation hardness constraints applying to electronic components in space applications, available degrees of freedom for improvement of power supplies are limited - at least with current qualified semiconductor technologies (which are both expensive and far behind state-of-the-art performance). The recent commercialization of gallium nitride (GaN) normally-off power transistors, having superior electrical characteristics compared to the best silicon power MOSFET, is promising on that regard. Indeed, their intrinsic radiation hardness seems to allow their use in space-grade converters. The aim of this work is the evaluation of how this technology can help improve the design of isolated DC/DC power supplies for typical hardware units of telecommunications satellite payloads. Operation at higher switching frequencies with these better performing components should, in principle, reduce converters' footprint while keeping the same (or better) efficiency level and still obeying each application's specific requirements. The accuracy of this hypothesis as well as the most adequate implementation architecture have been explored for the low power supply of a RF receiver, including realization and comparison of several demonstration boards. In order to approach higher power converters, a theoretical and experiment study of switching losses in GaN transistor bridge legs has been performed. A performance computation software has been developed in Python and used to identify the global optimum of the design of a Dual Active Bridge converter for a power RF amplifier (250 W DC). A prototype board has been built and demonstrated the interest of both the topology and GaN devices in this application, while clearly showing that high-frequency losses in magnetic components dominate total converter loss. This last issue happens to be the main limitation of the approach - precious to the engineer - of optimum design by computation: currently existing models for power loss estimation in magnetic elements are not satisfactory to predict performances of this type of converter.

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