Design of High Voltage, High Power and High Frequency Transformer in LCC Resonant Converter

The design of a high voltage, high power and high frequency transformer is introduced considering its operation in the LCC resonant converter. The leakage inductance and winding capacitance of the transformer are used as the resonant elements. An additional series resonant capacitor is added to form the LCC topology. The discontinuous current mode (DCM) is adopted to achieve the ZCS turn-on and ZVZCS turn-off of the power switches. Smaller value of the winding capacitance is preferred because it has the effect of decreasing the peak value of the resonant current at almost the same output voltage. The theoretic calculation of the winding capacitance and leakage inductance of the transformer is given. The error between the theoretical calculation and practical measurement is within 15%. So optimization design of the parasitic resonant elements can be achieved to meet requirement of the circuit. A prototype of LCC resonant converter with 60kW and 60kV output is built based on the designed transformer. Experiment results are given.