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SINGLE STAGE AC-DC STEP UP CONVERTER USING BOOST AND BUCKBOOST CONVERTERS

Kumar K, S.V. Sivanagaraju, Rajasekharachari k

This paper presents a single stage AC-DC step up power converter that avoids the bridge rectification and directly converts the low AC input voltage to the required high DC Output voltage at a higher efficiency. In order to convert AC-DC we need a bridge rectifier and boost converter for step up the DC output voltage to meet the load demand. This twostage conversion process increases the converter cost and reduces the efficiency of converter due to presence of more no. of semi conductor devices. The proposed converter consists of a boost converter in parallel with a buck–boost converter. Boost converter operated in the positive half cycle and buck-boost converter in the negative half cycle. As a result we obtain a high DC output voltage from a low AC input voltage in single stage conversion. The proposed converter has been designed by using MATLAB.