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Four Level Boost Converter for Linear Loads

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Emerging Trends in Electrical, Communications and Information Technologies

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering ((LNEE,volume 394))

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In renewable energy systems, the output voltage obtained will be of low level. In order to bring the voltage to nominal level, we need a step up DC-DC converter. Conventional boost converters has disadvantages like switch voltage stress, diode reverse recovery losses and high duty cycle losses. This paper presents a Multilevel DC-DC Boost Converter. To obtain 4 level output voltage, required number of switches, inductors, diodes and capacitors are one, one, seven and seven respectively. This converter has the ability to maintain equal voltage magnitudes in all the 4 output levels and also has a command over the input current. In this paper, a four level boost converter was simulated and implemented in hardware for an input and output specifications of 20 volts and 220 volts respectively.

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  1. School of Electrical Engineering, V.I.T University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

    H.M. Tania, Jagadish Kumar Patra, Vinson John, D. Elangovan & G. Arunkumar

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  2. Jagadish Kumar Patra
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  1. Mathematics and Computer Science, Chicago State University, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Kapila Rohan Attele

  2. BioAxis DNA Research Centre (P) Hyderabad, IEEE India Council, Hyderabad, India

    Amit Kumar

  3. Department of Electrical Engineering, JNTU College of Engineering, Ananthapur, India

    V. Sankar

  4. Department of Computer Science, CVR College of Engineering, Hyderabad, India

    N. V. Rao

  5. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Srinivasa Ramanujan Institute of Technology, Ananthapur, India

    T. Hitendra Sarma

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Tania, H., Patra, J.K., John, V., Elangovan, D., Arunkumar, G. (2017). Four Level Boost Converter for Linear Loads. In: Attele, K., Kumar, A., Sankar, V., Rao, N., Sarma, T. (eds) Emerging Trends in Electrical, Communications and Information Technologies. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 394. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1540-3_39

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