一种新型软开关推挽三电平直流变换器

由于传统推挽直流变换器中开关管的电压应力高（输入电压的两倍），故该变换器的应用范围受到限制。本提出了一种新型的零电压零电流开关PWM推挽三电平直流变换器，其中开关管的电压应力为输入电压。对该变换器采用移相控制，可以发现超前管只能实现零电压开关。加入阻断电容和阻断二极管可以使滞后管实现零电流开关。在这种控制方式下该变换器克服了传统推挽变换器存在的偏磁现象，开关损耗大，开关管有电压尖峰等缺点，使得其变换效率更高，有更广的应用范围。该变换器的工作原理在一个600W，50kHz的实验样机上得以分析和验证。最后，本还提出了另外几种零电压零电流开关PWM推挽三电平直流变换器。

A NEW SOFT-SWITCHING PUSH-PULL THREE-LEVEL CONVERTER

The application areas of conventional push pull converters are limited because of high voltage stress of switches (twice of input voltage). This paper presents a novel zero voltage and zero current switching (ZCS) PWM push pull three level converter in which the voltage stress of switches is input voltage. With phase shifted modulation strategy, the leading switches can only realize zero voltage switching (ZVS), and the lagging switches can realize ZCS when block capacitor and block diodes are added. Using the strategy, the converter overcomes the drawbacks presented by the conventional push pull converter, such as magnetic aberration, large switch loss, and voltage spike on switches, so it can get higher efficiency, and a wider application area. The operating principle of the new converter is analyzed and verified on a 600 W, 50 kHz experimental prototype. Several zero voltage and zero current switching PWM push pull three level converters are proposed.