A Modified Dual Input DC-DC Converter for Hybrid Energy Application

Sivaprasad Athikkal (National Institute of Technology Calicut)
Kumaravel Sundaramoorthy (National Institute of Technology Calicut)
Ashok Sankar (National Institute of Technology Calicut)

International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS)
Vol 8, No 1: March 2017

Power electronic interface has reached a new level in the area of  hybrid energy integration nowadays. The existence for the concept of  hybrid energy integration is truly questionable without a proper power electronic interface. In this paper, a modified dual input DC-DC converter which is capable of incorporating two distinct V-I characteristic sources such as solar-PV, battery, fuel cell, etc., is proposed. The converter has the ability to operate in both unidirectional and bidirectional mode with buck, buck-boost and boost operation. The software simulation of the proposed converter has been conducted in MATLAB/Simulink platform in a detailed manner and an experimental prototype of the propsed converter has been built to validate the simulation results.