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Basic Electric Circuits with Switches

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In this chapter, basic electric circuits with switches are presented and analyzed as a basic knowledge for the next chapters, in which the static converters topological states

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Abbreviations

Vi:

Input DC voltage

E1:

DC voltage

vC:

Capacitor voltage

iC:

Capacitor current

vL:

Inductor voltage

vR:

Resistor voltage

vS:

Switch voltage

λ:

Time constant

S:

Switch

D:

Diode

T, T1 and T2:

Thyristors

Io and iL(∞):

Steady state inductor current

vL(∞) and vR(∞):

Steady state inductor and resistor voltages, respectively

W:

Energy

tf:

Energy recovery time interval

N1 and N2:

Transformer primary and secondary windings, respectively

Lm:

Transformer magnetizing inductance

\( {\text{L}}^{\prime}_{\text{m}} \) :

Transformer magnetizing inductance referred to the secondary winding

v1 and v2:

Transformer primary and secondary voltages, respectively

∆t1 and ∆t2:

Time interval 1 and 2, respectively

i1 and i2:

Currents at time interval 1 and 2, respectively

I1 and I2:

Initial currents at time interval 1 and 2, respectively

V1:

Input DC voltage referred to the transformer secondary winding

VC0 and IL0:

Capacitor and inductor initial conditions, respectively

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Barbi, I., Pöttker, F. (2019). Basic Electric Circuits with Switches. In: Soft Commutation Isolated DC-DC Converters. Power Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96178-1_1

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