Solar powered boost converter with passive snubber

Abstract

This paper does the simulation of solar cell powered boost converter with resonant snubber. The converter system have a solar photo voltaic module and a closed loop boost converter. The low input from the solar PV module is converted to high level dc voltage by means of the closed loop boost converter. Converter have a 2D-2C-2L resonant snubber. This snubber ensures turn on at ZCS, and turn off at ZVS which will leads to considerable increase in performance. Converter has low complexity. The simulation of the converter for an input voltage of 12V is also presented.