The goal of this thesis is to design and fabricate a DC-to-DC converter for use in high-voltage capacitor charging applications. The primary objectives include increasing the efficiency and reducing the cost of traditional methods used for this application. Traditional methods were not designed specifically for high-voltage capacitor charging and were thus very primitive and exhibited lower efficiency. Prior methods made use of a high voltage power supply and a current limiting resistor or control scheme. The power supply would often only operate efficiently at a single voltage value and would thus function poorly over a range used in charging a capacitor. The resistor would also dissipate a fair amount of power, also limiting efficiency. This design makes use of a traditional flyback topology utilizing a controller developed specifically for this application, centering the design approach on the LT3750. Hence, taking full advantage of the efficiency improving control scheme it provides. Additionally, through the use of advanced techniques to eliminate noise and power losses, the efficiency may be significantly improved. A detailed theoretical analysis of the charger is also presented. The analysis will then be applied to optimization techniques to select ideal component values to meet specific design specifications. In this research, a specifically designed and developed prototype will be used to experimentally verify the theoretical work and optimization techniques.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ucf.edu/oai:stars.library.ucf.edu:etd-5176 |
| Date | 01 January 2009 |
| Creators | Islas, Michael |
| Publisher | STARS |
| Source Sets | University of Central Florida |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | Electronic Theses and Dissertations |
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