Series partial power converter with half bridge LLC series resonant converter for PV application

Abstract This study proposes a series partial power converter with a half-bridge LLC series resonant converter for photovoltaic (PV) applications. The main advantage of the implementation of a partial power converter with LLC series resonant converter is zero voltage switching (ZVS) operation of primary side enables the converter to work at a higher switching frequency. The partial power topology used in the proposed converter enables low power rating switches in the primary, which in other terms reduces the primary current. The proposed converter achieves excellent efficiency due to its ZVS and partial power operating capabilities. The valuation of the proposed converter is done in MATLAB Simulink with a 300 W PV module, which is made to operate in varying irradiance and module temperature of 25 °C. The operational waveforms and the power outputs obtained when the proposed converter is implemented by using perturbation and observation (P&O) maximum power point tracking (MPPT) control algorithm are discussed in this paper.