TITLE OF THE PROJECT:

Design and Implementation of a Synchronous Buck Converter with reduced Switching

Losses for Charging a Battery. (Tentative)

INTRODUCTION:
The Photo Voltaic (PV) energy system is a very new concept and PV systems are being
developed to extract energy from the sun in the most efficient manner and suit them to the
available loads without affecting their performance.
A synchronous buck converter based photo voltaic energy system can be used for portable
applications such as charging the batteries used in mobile phones. The most important
advantage of using synchronous buck converter is to reduce the switching loss in the main
MOSFET when compared with a conventional buck converter. The switching loss is
minimized by applying soft switching techniques such as zero-voltage switching (ZVS) and
zero-current switching (ZCS) in the proposed converter. Hence it is a cost effective solution.
The DC power extracted from the PV energy system is synthesized and modulated through
synchronous buck converter in order to suit the load requirements i.e. the battery used. The
performance of such a converter is analyzed and compared with classical buck converter in
terms of switching loss reduction and improved converter efficiency.

OBJECTIVES:

To study and analyse the characteristic of a PV array.

To analyse of the operation of the synchronous buck converter and to carry out its
simulation using MATLAB Simulink.
To comparing the performance of a synchronous buck converter with that of
conventional buck converter in terms of efficiency.
To carry out the real time implementation of the synchronous buck converter for
charging the battery of a cellular phone.

BLOCK DIAGRAM:
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SUN LIGHT

PV
MODULE

SYNCHRONOUS
BUCK
CONVERTER

CONTROL
CIRCUIT

LOAD

METHODOLOGY:

Literature Survey
Studying and analysing the material obtained.
Analysing the operation of each block in the system.
Practical implementation of the system
Studying the output of the system in terms of losses and efficiency.