A DC-AC conversion efficiency of over 99.7% is experimentally measured using a two battery high efficiency energy conversion system (HEECS) inverter. The accuracy of the efficiency measurement is evaluated by two methods: the direct measurement method and the loss breakdown method. After several measurements, calculations and analyses it is concluded that the measurement error based on the loss breakdown method is 0.04%.

This paper proposes a fast and robust nonlinear deadbeat control for boost DC-DC converters. First, the nonlinear state equation is derived, and second a nonlinear current reference deadbeat control is proposed. Third, a new nonlinear controller to implement the load disturbance compensation is proposed. After the simulations and verification by experiments, it was confirmed that under the conditions of an input voltage of 12 V, an output voltage of 20 V, a load resistance of 4 Ω and a sampling frequency of 100 kHz, the voltage command tracking capability of a settling time of 280 μs was achieved, and an output voltage recovery time of 1.46 ms was achieved for a sudden load change.

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In this study, a virtual transformer-based loss measurement method is proposed for inverter power conversion efficiency measurements, and the accuracy of this method is theoretically analyzed. This concept is further extended to a practical measurement procedure, wherein asynchronous loss measurements are conducted for powering and regenerating operations using a single set of measurement instruments. The average efficiency can be obtained with a very high accuracy after calibration of the measurement instruments. A high-efficiency system inverter was selected as the converter under test, and its efficiency and accuracy were experimentally measured and validated. An efficiency of 99.75% ± 0.006% was obtained at an output of 1600 W.