Advanced power conditioner using sinewave modulated buck–boost converter cascaded polarity changing inverter

Abstract: This paper presents an advanced power converter employs a sinusoidal voltage absolute value tracking buck–boost DC–DC converter in the first power processing stage and a polarity changing full-bridge inverter in the second stage. The proposed power conversion system has the capability of delivering good quantitative and qualitative sinusoidal output current and voltage waveforms with good output voltage regulation. Consequently, the complete voltage regulator system, which is mainly suitable for new energy generation systems as well as energy storage systems, can be constructed compactly and inexpensively without DC link electrolytic capacitor. Also, the paper presents an auxiliary passive resonant circuit for soft switching operation. Simulation results using PSIM software are presented to verify the operation principles and feasibility of the proposed power conversion system. Finally, these results are verified by means of an experimental prototype. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]