As important elements of the hydrogen economy, fuel cells (FCs) require high step-up DC-DC converters. To this end, a new high voltage gain interleaved DC-DC converter benefiting from expandable quadratic-boost and switched-capacitor networks is proposed in this paper. A switching model shows that the proposed converter reaches a voltage gain of about 10, semiconductor voltage stresses are half of the output voltage or less, and current stresses are cut in half when compared to the non-interleaved version. Besides, according to a dynamic simulation study, the newly proposed single-input fuzzy-logic controller-based control method allows less than half the settling time and 5% less voltage overshoot than the current mode control; moreover, it attains a perfect current sharing while voltage mode control fails by having a current unbalance factor of up to 0.33. Finally, an average model demonstrates the accomplished operation of the offered system under an office block power demand.
Fürkan Akar (Thu,) studied this question.
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