| The DC-DC boost converters are getting more popular and important recently because of their extensive usage in home appliances, electronic equipments, HVDC transmission, Regenerative Energy capture in electric vehicles, and also in the green energy generation, for instance, PV arrays. There are a lot of techniques available to design boost converters with different control techniques, but the goal is to perform statistical analysis on a dc-to-dc boost converter before simulating it in a dynamic simulator Multisim. Multisim displays only the device parameters such as voltage and currents of individual elements, but the significance of the analyzer is that it estimates the overall statistical and performance parameters, such as the range of energy-storage-inductor for the converter to operate in continuous mode, the percentage of ripple in the output voltage for a given a given filter capacitor and vice versa, the energy sourced and delivered to and from the inductor, average power-output, and overall efficiency of energy-conversion, etc. For structured-implementation of the boost converters one needs to perform both the simulations, but initially to perform overall statistical-performance analysis, to determine the upper and lower limits for the critical elements for a desired performance, and overall efficiency of conversion. The analyzer is developed using the software package MS-Visual C++ Visual Studio .NET 2008. Finally, the same is simulated in Multisim and then a prototype is also developed to verify the results. |
