Applying an optimized switching strategy to a high gain boost converter for input current ripple cancellation

This paper discusses applying various switching strategies such as conventional complementary and proportional methods on a specific converter. This converter was recently presented and it can provide high voltage gain and has current ripple cancelation ability at a preselected duty-cycle. The input current ripple is zero when the converter works at a special duty-cycle. But load disturbance leads to output voltage changes that maybe cause the duty-cycle to deviate from its preselected value. In this situation, the input current ripple cannot be completely canceled. The proposed proportional strategy is an optimized method for minimizing input current ripple at other operating duty-cycles and also it provides a voltage gain lower than conventional complementary strategy. Here, the converter's performance is analyzed under two switching strategies and the effect of various strategies has been investigated on converter parameters including output voltage and input current ripple. These considerations are verified by implementing a 100-W prototype of the proposed converter in laboratory.