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7.6 COMPARISON OF HARDWARE AND SIMULATION
RESULTS
In this section the hardware and simulation results with same electrical
specification are compared with each other. The electrical specifications of high step up
dc-dc converter are Vin = 7 V, Vo =105 V, Fs = 50 kHz, RL = 1000. C1 = C2 =4.7F,
C3 =1F.N = 5, D = as 55%.
Table 7.2
Comparison of hardware and simulation results
RESULTS Voltage across
diode D1
Voltage across
diode D2
Voltage across
diode D3
Output
voltage
Simulation
results
90 23 23 103
Hardware
results
90 20 20 105

The Comparison of hardware and simulation results with same electrical specification is
shown in table 7.2. The table 7.2 is build using the values observed from simulation
results shown in FIG 7.6, 7.7 and hardware results from FIG 7.16 .From table 7.2 it can
be observed that voltage across diode D1 in both hardware and simulation are same i.e.
90V. Further voltage across diode D2, D3 differ by 3V from simulation to hardware i.e.
23V to 20V.the output voltage of the converter in simulation is 103V and 105V hardware
i.e. there is difference of 2V between hardware output and simulation output.
7.7 COMPARISON WITH CONVENTIONAL METHODS
The dcdc converter requires large step-up conversion from the panels low voltage
to the voltage level of the application. Previous research on various converters for high
step-up applications has included analyses of the switched-inductor and switched-
capacitor types; transformerless switched-capacitor type [1], high-efficiency, high step-up
dcdc converters [2]; and the boost type integrated with a coupled inductor [3]. these
converters obtained high voltage gain than conventional boost converter and have
efficiency 95% to 98 % .but these converter increase they turns ratio of coupled inductor
to obtain higher output voltage. This leads to increase in size of the coupled inductors and
increase in the weight of converter. But the proposed converter gives the high voltage
gain without increase in the turns ratio of coupled inductor.
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Table 7.3
Voltage gain comparison

The voltage gain of the proposed converter and various other converters are
shown in table 7.3 From the table 7.3 it can be observed that voltage gain of the proposed
converter is 12 which is high value compared to the other converters. Hence the proposed
converter gives the high voltage gain without increase in the turns ratio of coupled
inductor.

Figure 7.17 Voltage gain as a function of the duty ratio of the proposed converter.
Fig 7.17 shows the voltage gain of proposed converter for different duty cycle. x axes
represents duty cycles and y axes represents voltage gain. From fig 7.17 it is observed
Converter Equation Voltage gain
High voltage gain ,High Step-Up DCDC
Converter


12
High-Efficiency, High Step-Up DCDC
Converters [2].


6
Transformer-less DCDC Converters
With High Step-Up Voltage Gain [1].


3
The boost type integrated with a coupled
inductor[3]



5

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that for duty cycle of 0.1 voltage gain is of 6.5 which is minimum and for duty cycle of
0.8 the voltage gain is 33 which is maximum. However when compared to conventional
converters [1][2] the voltage gain proposed converter is high for less number of turns
ratio and duty cycles.
7.8 SUMMARY
In this chapter the simulation result of solar panel, simulation results of high step
up dc-dc converter, simulation results of high step up dc-dc converter with PID controller
,simulation results of interleaved high step up dc-dc converter with PID controller,
hardware results of proposed converter,comparison with conventional methods is
discussed.





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CHAPTER 8
CONCLUSION AND SCOPE FOR FUTURE WORK
This thesis has introduced and developed a high step up DC-DC converter, high
step up DC-DC converter with PID controller, interleaved high step up DC-DC converter
with PID controller. The proposed high step up DC-DC converter is build using both
hardware and simulation .From the simulation and hardware results it is observed that the
reduction in the input ripple current is achieved and the energy of the coupled inductors
leakage inductor has been recycled, the voltage stress selected across the active switch
S1is constrained, which means low ON-state resistance RDS (ON) can be selected. Thus,
improvements to the efficiency of the proposed converter have been achieved. From the
converter, the turns ratio n=5 and the duty ratio D is 55%; thus, without extreme duty
ratios and turns ratios, the proposed converter achieves high step-up voltage gain, and
also reduction in the rise time and steady state error is achieved due use of PID controller
in feedback. The experimental results show the efficiency of the converter is 98.5 %.

Future developments include the use of multilevel inverter so that the harmonics
generated in the circuit can be reduced. Further by using maximum power point tracking
(MPPT) technique maximum power can be achieved and to reduce the ripple content on
the output side the ripple cancellation network need to be developed.












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