Hybrid Renewable Source Powered Dual Input Single Output Converter With High Voltage Gain for Rural Healthcare Facilities
clamped capacitor converter; energy management; hybrid solar PV-supercapacitor; interleaved switched capacitor two-way converter; MATLAB/Simulink; rural health care center; voltage source inverter
Rural dwellers need a well-equipped healthcare service for a decent life. Most of the rural areas located in southern parts of India away from the grid connection thereby lack in electricity. Unreliable electric power leads to the limited access or inaccessibility of most essential medical equipment in the clinic. The deficiency has also reduced rural healthcare centers ethics criteria. This research work finds all the available resources in the rural healthcare clinic and proposes hybrid solar PV source and supercapacitor-based approaches to make sure of reliable energy access and uninterrupted power supply. Any healthcare facilities include an emergency room, waiting hall, nursing room, consulting room, delivery room, male and female room, and a testing lab. It may take a daily average energy consumption of 16 kWh with 3 kW peak demand. In the input side, solar PV system with an H-type clamped capacitorbased boost converter is proposed for the reduction of input current ripples and power switch conduction losses. At the load side, a capacitor with a switch (switched capacitor) is considered to reduce voltage stress of the components present in the topology and to attain high gain. This research work adopts interleaved structure-based capacitors for current ripple reduction, and the series structure is considered to attain high gain. The proposed novel converter takes the input voltage of 40 V and produces the output voltage of 280 V. The DC link output is then connected with the voltage source inverter (VSI) to get a desired output. The proposed novel converter is employed to run a 3? induction motor for the AC load with the rating of 400 V, 15 A AC power. MATLAB R2015a software is preferred for the simulation analysis. Copyright 2025 K. M. D. Riyaz Ali et al. Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Ali, K. M. D. Riyaz; Memala, W. Abitha; Amutha, W. Margaret
Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering;Volume;2025;Issue;1;Article No.;8855158;
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https://doi.org/10.1155/jece/8855158 https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105021859625?origin=resultslist
Ali K.M.D.R., Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology (Deemed to be University), Tamil Nadu, Chennai, India; Memala W.A., Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology (Deemed to be University), Tamil Nadu, Chennai, India; Amutha W.M., Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Deemed to be University, Ramapuram Campus, Ramapuram, Tamil Nadu, India