Active clamp interleaved forward converter with single-capacitor turn-off snubber for stunning poultry applications

S. Y. Tseng*, C. T. Hsieh, H. C. Lin

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Abstract

This paper proposes an active clamp interleaved forward converter with a single-capacitor turn-off snubber constructed with a full-bridge inverter for stunning poultry applications. The proposed converter can use active clamp circuit to recover the energy trapped in magnetizing and leakage inductors of transformer and to achieve zero-voltage switching at turn-on transition. In addition, the proposed one adopts a single-capacitor snubber not only to smooth out switch voltage at turn-off transition for reducing switching loss but to decrease the ringing voltage across output freewheeling diodes of the proposed converter at turn-on transition of each switch. As compared with the counterparts of the conventional converter topologies, the proposed converter has the merits of less component counts, higher efficiency, smaller size, and they are easier to implement. Performance measurements from a prototype have verified feasibility of the overall system design. This designed system has contributed a lot of humane slaughter and has attracted much attention.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - CIS Workshops 2007, 2007 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security Workshops, CISW 2007
Pages450-456
Number of pages7
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
EventPESC '08 - 39th IEEE Annual Power Electronics Specialists Conference - Rhodes, Greece
Duration: 15 06 200819 06 2008

Publication series

NamePESC Record - IEEE Annual Power Electronics Specialists Conference
ISSN (Print)0275-9306

Conference

ConferencePESC '08 - 39th IEEE Annual Power Electronics Specialists Conference
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityRhodes
Period15/06/0819/06/08

Keywords

  • Active clamp interleaved forward converter
  • Humane slaughter
  • Single-capacitor snubber

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