AN ISOLATED MULTI-INPUT ZCS DC–DC

FRONT-END-CONVERTER BASED MULTILEVEL

INVERTER FOR THE INTEGRATION OF RENEWABLE
ENERGY SOURCES

INTRODUCTION:
BECAUSE of limited availability, increasing prices, and
environmental concerns with conventional energy sources and
advances in power electronics, renewable energy (RE) sources
are attaining much higher attention nowadays . Also it has
become necessary to connect several RE sources viz., wind and
solar with varying capacities to a grid or stand-alone power
systems via power electronic converters with low expenditure,
compact structure, and efficient power management in
distributed power systems . In this case, more efficient power
electronic circuit configurations for establishing such a hybrid
energy system are needed;
In general, based on topology, multi-input converters
(MICs) can be classified as isolated topologies and nonisolated
topologies . In which isolated topologies offer galvanic isolation,
high-power handling capability, high voltage conversion, and
better converter optimization . Several circuit configurations
have been introduced in the literature to combine dissimilar RE
sources to a common dc bus via separate single-input converters
for hybrid power systems. However, use of multiple single-input
converters in a hybrid power system leads to increased
component count and expense due to multistage conversion,
whereas isolated MIC technology focuses to minimize these
limitations by employing common control scheme, reduced
component count, and efficient power flow management.

EXISTING SYSTEM:

A multi-winding dc/dc converter is for dual input

applications. The main benefits of this converter are a separate
controller for each input voltage source, possibility of expansion
to n number of inputs, and the converter is operational even for a
single input. However, by increasing the input sources, the
number of transformer windings, component count, and control
complexity also increases. Moreover, converter lacks soft
switching. An isolated multiport converter uses only one control
switch in each port to which a source is connected. Therefore, it
has lesser number of switches, thus lower conduction loss but
hard switched. Similarly, a multi-input three-level dc/dc uses
four switches and four diodes on the primary side of a high-
frequency (HF) transformer leading to huge power loss due to
hard switching.

DRAWBACKS:

 A high frequency will increase switching losses.

 No isolation
PROPOSED SYSTEM:
This paper proposes a two-stage multi-input dc/ac inverter
as shown in Fig. for the hybrid stand-alone power system. It
consists of a novel multi-input zero-current switched (ZCS) high
gain front-end dc/dc converter and a standard multilevel inverter
In the proposed converter, V1 and V2 are two
dissimilarrenewable voltage sources, L1 and L2 are the boost
inductors,Llk is the leakage inductance of an HF transformer, Cs
is the seriesresonant capacitor, and Cp is the parallel resonant
capacitor.Leakage inductance Llk and resonant capacitors (Cp
and Cs )are utilized as tank circuit parameters in the converter
operation for obtaining ZCS turn-OFF.
In the proposed circuit, two active switches are operated with
more than 50% duty ratio to make the two switches conduct
simultaneously for a small duration of time, during which circuit
operates in a resonant mode. During this resonant mode,
switches turn-OFF with ZCS. For maintaining the load voltage
constant and ZCS at different load conditions, frequency
modulation along with a variable duty ratio technique is
employed.

ADVANTAGES:
 Switching losses are reduced.
 Isolations provided
 The proposed model can avoid complexity of the circuit
 The voltage stress on each power device due to the
utilization of multiple levels on the dc bus can be
reduced
 Total harmonic distortion is less

APPLICATIONS:
 Renewable resources
 Hybrid electric vehicle
 Facts devices