Project 1 - Loss calculation for a DC/DC converter-MATLAB
- Design of boost converter, and calculating the loss of different components including power switching device and deriving efficiency of boost converter. This is applicable in power supply industry, electric vehicles etc where DC-DC converter is required to boost the voltage from DC source. All the aspects of this project with loss calculation, device selection, simulation etc are industry relevant.
- The loss calculation and efficiency of boost converter are shown below :-




- The simulation for the above calculated model is shown below :-
- The simulink model build is shown below :-

- All the block parameters are shown below :-
1) Configuartion parameters :-

2) DC voltage source :-

3) Inductor :-

4) RL ( Resistance of inductor ):-

5) MOSFET :-

6) Pulse generator :-

7) Capacitor :-

8) Rc ( Resistance of capacitor )

9) Diode :-

10) Load resistance (R) :-

- With the above designed parameters the simulink is run for 0.1 second and the results are shown below:-
- Output voltage :-

- Inductor current :-
- Zoomed out :-

- Zoomed in :-

- Pulse, Diode, MOSFET currents and voltages, capacitor voltage :-

- Hence the required calculations and simulation for the boost converter to find losses , simulation and all the graphs are shown successfully.