Design and Implementation of Three-Winding Coupled Inductor and Switched Capacitor-Based DC–DC Converter Fed PV-TDVR

Abstract

This paper presents a three-winding coupled inductor-based high-gain DC–DC converter fed transformerless dynamic voltage restorer (TDVR) to compensate the voltage sag, voltage swell and interruption in the single-phase power distribution network. The TDVR supported by the cascaded DC–DC boost converters offers high boosting gain. The cascaded connection of DC–DC converters reduces the efficiency due to the usage of more active and passive devices. The proposed PV-TDVR is designed to provide higher efficiency by reducing the number of power conversion stages with reduced numbers of active and passive components. The operating modes of the proposed PV-TDVR are presented in a comprehensive way. The MATrix LABoratory (MATLAB) simulation and 1-kV prototype model results are presented to analyze the performance of PV-TDVR in mitigating the voltage disturbances in the single-phase power distribution network.