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 International Journal of Engineering Technology, Management and Applied Sciences

www.ijetmas.com April 2017, Volume 5, Issue 4, ISSN 2349-4476

Selection of High Efficient Passive Soft Switching

Regenerative Snubber for DC-DC Boost Converter

Shrirang G Kulkarni
Assistant Professor
BLDEA’s Dr.PG Halakatti College of Engg and Tech
Vijayapur, Karnataka,India

Abstract: This paper represents simulation of snubber
capacitor configuration for the boost converter which
operates in continuous conduction mode. Objective of the
paper is to reduce the stress on switch by improving the
efficiency and reliability of converter .Process involves
the soft switching of semiconductor switch with reduced
loss in turning off process. This is achieved by
connecting snubber circuit consisting of capacitor and
inductor on converter. Results are discussed for high
voltage and low voltage conditions with different values
of snubber capacitance values.Theorotical and simulated
output values are tabulated and represented graphically.
Outputs are showing high improved performance of
converter .Simulation is carried out in
MATLAB/Simulink
I. INTRODUCTION
Semiconductor devices are the heart of power
electronics. So Snubber elements are connected
with semiconductor switch which makes the
Protection of these devices along with
improvement in the performance. Snubber circuits
will gives the protection against voltage and current
spikes,di/dt or dv/dt .Snubber circuits reduces the
switching losses and EMIs in converter circuit.
Active soft switching circuit incorporates the extra
additional switches to achieve the result as in SMPS
and passive soft switching involves passive
elements like R,L ,C and diode. Series inductors are
used mainly to reduce the turn on switching loss
and called as di/dt limiters Whereas to reduce turn
off loss, Shunt capacitors (dv/dt limiters) are used.
Lowering in losses leads to enhancement in the
converter efficiency and decreases the stress in
switch.
Switching frequency is also a key element to decide
the value of snubber elements and circuit size.
Higher the switching frequency is much
advantageous to reduce the size of converter.
Typical snubber circuits and clamps are analyzed to
reduce the switching losses in converter (1) includes
transformer. Magnetically coupled regenerative turn
on and turn off snubber is used for boost converter (
2) emphasizes the soft switching along with
reduction in stress. Each Switching device in PWM
inverter is incorporated with passive soft switching
snubber (PSSS) elements (3) and transformer based
energy recovery technique improves the efficiency
in inverter system
Transformer introduces additional loss.
Magnetically coupled inductor does not make any
difference as that of transformer in system. Another
passive snubber circuit (4) introduces the new
technique to reduce turn on loss of switch .Still
gives hard switching operation for turn off
operation
By connecting snubber capacitor in parallel with
switch improves converter efficiency and decreases
the switching loss is explained in(5) and also
consists of an advantage of energy recovery
Present work emphasizes on passive soft switching
operation with reverse recovery with detailed
analysis about converter operation and its behavior
at different frequencies, at different converter and
snubber elements .Graphical representation conveys
information effectively.
II. CIRCUIT OPERATION
A. Basic boost converter
Fig1 is the basic Boost converter circuit diagram
without any snubber elements. It consists of inductor
Lm, Diode Dm and switch S as main components.

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Fig 1 Basic boost converter
B. Basic snubber circuit without energy recovery
Boost converter with passive soft switching
snubber circuit is represented in fig 2.Energy
recovery option is not present. Snubber consists of
diode (D1 and D2) and capacitors (C1 and C2)
connected in parallel with switch S without energy
recovery. Recovery of energy to source or load is
possible through additional inductor (L1 and L2)
and diodes (D3 and D4)
Fig 2.Snubber circuit without reverse
III. MODES OF OPERATION
Snubber circuit with energy recovery (regenerative)
is presented in fig 3.Snubber capacitance (C1 and
C2) in the circuit will affect the turn off loss in the
converter. Perfect designed value will reduce the
turn off loss.
Fig 3 Regenerative snubber circuit for boost
converter
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A.Mode 1
When switch is turn off. Inductor current flows to
load through inductor. At the same time current
charges the snubber capacitors equally up to
Vo.Operation is as same as normal boost converter
operation .Output voltage Vo is the sum of inductor
voltage (VL) and input voltage (Vin)
Vo=Vin+VL ............................................(1)
B.Mode 2
When switch is turn on. Capacitor voltage
discharges into load side. Switch carries inductor
current and capacitor discharging current. At the
end of this mode. Voltage capacitor should be zero.
Capacitors in snubber circuit are having equal
value. C1=C2=C
Inductors in recovery path are having equal value
L1=L2=L.
IV. CALCULATION OF BOOST INDUCTOR
TABLE I. Design specifications
Input voltage 24v
Output power (Nearby) 200w
Switching frequency 50Khz
Input current ripple 30%
Duty cycle 70%
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Vin=24V
……………………..(2)
Substituting Vin and D values in equation 2,
Vo=80V
……………………………………(3)
Io=0.8A
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………………………………..(4)
Iin=2.66A
Ripple current is 30% of input current
…………………………….(5)

……………………………….(6)
Boost inductor value is
Lm=0.425mH

V. SIMULATION RESULTS
Simulation results of converter are listed in the table
2.Theorotical and simulated output voltages are
given. It consists of output voltages without
snubber and with snubber. It is observed that using Fig 4 .Graph of snubber capacitance Vs Output
snubber circuit will give the large voltage compared voltage
to theoretical values and reduces the losses in the
converter. VI. RESULTS DISCUSSION
TABLE II. Output voltages of boost converter Output voltages at different snubber capacitance
Vin Vo Vo (simulated With values are plotted in the graph Fig 4.Obervation can
(theoretical) without snubber be analyzed as below
snubber) a) 1𝞵F to 8𝞵F ,Voltage Vo Increases
b) 9𝞵F to 15𝞵F ,Voltage Vo is at peak value
c) 15𝞵F to 90𝞵F ,Voltage Vo again decreases
24 80 79.24 150
From simulation, it is observed that output voltage
Range of snubber capacitance values are taken and at range 9𝞵F to 15𝞵F, it will reach the highest
output voltages of boost converter are listed in table value. Vo is at peak value. Vo is low at low value
3.Output voltages for Snubber capacitance of 1 𝞵F of snubber capacitance and at value of above 20
to 90 𝞵F is tabulated 𝞵F, Again there is decrease in the output voltage.
So to get high output from boost converter,
snubber capacitance value should be in the range
TABLE III. Output voltage Vs Snubber of 9𝞵F to 15𝞵F .Turn off energy loss during
capacitance switching period at this range is much less.
C(Snubber Vo(V)
capacitance𝞵F) VII. CONCLUSION
1 135 Boost converter with snubber circuit is simulated
with passive soft switching strategies on
5 151.8
MATLAB/Simulink software. Output of the
10 153 converter is improved in large scale due to presence
of snubber capacitor compared to conventional
20 152
boost converter and high output voltage is observed
50 149 when snubber capacitance value should be in the
90 139.4 range of 9𝞵F to 15𝞵F . turn off Switching losses at
the time of turn off is reduced.

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