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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Sumathy, P.
• Navamani, J. Divya
• Lavanya, A.
• Sathik, Jagabar
• Zahira, R.
• Essa, Fadl A.

Titel

PV Powered High Voltage Pulse Converter with Switching Cells for Food Processing Application

Ist Teil von

• Energies (Basel), 2023-01, Vol.16 (2), p.1010

Ort / Verlag

Basel: MDPI AG

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In recent years, industries in the suburb have retrofitted their power supply units with solar power supply systems. Using solar power supply systems for various applications, such as food processing, enables energy expense saving. A promising opportunity in the food industry is solar-powered Pulsed Electric Field (PEF) used in the treatment of fruits and their by-products. For this application, a converter is proposed in this paper with a combination of a passive switched inductor cell and a switched capacitor cell. Furthermore, the derived topology possesses an extendable feature. This topology generates high voltage repetitive pulses with a single semiconductor switch and a reduced component count. Dynamic study of the converter is also performed with the derivation of the transfer function. Cost effective, reliable, and simple circuitry are the critical features of this topology. The circuit topology can generate high voltage pulses by increasing the number of switched inductors and switched capacitor cells. A correlation study on the impact of the switched inductor/capacitor cell is also performed and analyzed, which is not usually performed. A 50 W prototype is designed and tested to validate the performance of the converter