Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>Battery-powered trends in consumer electronics, transportation, and renewable energy sectors increase demands on DC/DC converter technology. Higher switching frequency and efficiency reduces solution size and cost, while increasing power capabilities. Still, switching noise remains the primary drawback associated with any DC/DC converter. Reducing a converter’s input ripple helps prevent switching noise from spreading to other systems on a shared DC power bus. This thesis covers the analysis, simulation, and implementation of a recently-proposed boost converter topology, alongside an equivalent standard boost converter, operating in steady-state, continuous conduction mode. A Matlab-based simulation predicts each converter’s input ripple performance using a state-space model. The converters’ hardware implementation minimizes component and layout differences to create an equivalent comparison. The simulation and hardware measurements demonstrate a 40% input current ripple reduction using the modified topology. Replacing standard boost converters with the modified topology minimizes the switching noise conducted through a system’s DC power network.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- MS in Electrical Engineering
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Electrical Engineering
- Year dc:date.available
- 2017
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Lentz, Nathan H
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- NFN Taufik
Subjects
dc:subject × 7Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- 10.15368/theses.2017.50
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:digitalcommons.calpoly.edu:theses-2976