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358 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS, VOL. 24, NO. 2, FEBRUARY 2009 A Three-Phase Current-Fed Push–Pull DC–DC Converter Romero Leandro Andersen and Ivo Barbi, Senior Member, IEEE Abstract—In this paper, a new three-phase current-fed push– required [1]. Some different topologies [2], [3] as well as soft- pull dc–dc converter is proposed. This converter uses a high- commutation techniques [2], [4]–[6] were presented. frequency three-phase transformer that provides galvanic isolation In recent years, work has been done to apply three-phase dc– between the power source and the load. The three active switches are connected to the same reference, which simpli?es the gate drive dc conversion to fuel cell energy processing [7]–[10] and bat- circuitry. Reduction of the input current ripple and the output teries in automotive devices [11], which exemplify the potential voltage ripple is achieved by means of an inductor and a capacitor, of these converters in applications where the source voltage is whose volumes are smaller than in equivalent single-phase topolo- low. gies. The three-phase dc–dc conversion also helps in loss distribu- This paper proposes a three-phase current-fed dc–dc push– tion, allowing the use of lower cost switches. These characteristics make this converter suitable for applications where low-voltage pull converter inspired by the conventional single-phase counter- power sources are used and the associated currents are high, such part. In the proposed converter, the isolation between the power as in fuel cells, photovoltaic arrays, and batteries. The theoret- source and the load is provided by a high-frequency three-phase ical analysis, a simpli?ed design example, and the experimental transformer, the losses are better distributed than in a single- results for a 1-kW prototype will be presented for two operation phase topology, and the chopping frequencies of the input cur- regions. The prototype