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A non-isolated soft switched integrated boost converter having high voltage gain is proposed for the module integrated PV systems, fuel cells and other low voltage energy sources. Here a bidirectional boost converter is integrated with a resonant voltage quadrupler cell to obtain higher voltage gain. The auxiliary switch of the converter, which is connected to the output port acts as an active clamp circuit. Hence ZVS (zero voltage switching) turn on of the MOSFET switches are achieved. Coupled inductor's leakage energy is recycled to the output port through this auxiliary switch. In the proposed converter, all the diodes of the quadrupler cell are turned off with ZCS (zero current switching). This considerably reduces the high frequency turn off losses and reverse recovery losses of the diodes. ZCS turn off of the diodes also remove the diode voltage ringing caused due to the interaction of the parasitic capacitance of the diodes and the leakage inductance of the coupled inductor. Hence to protect the diodes from the voltage spikes, snubbers are not required. The voltage stress on all the MOSFETs and diodes are lower. This helps to choose switches of low voltage rating (low RDS(ON )) and thus improve the efficiency. Design and mathematical analysis of the proposed converter are made. A 250W prototype of the converter is built to verify the performance.

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