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Snubber Circuit Design Guide

The document discusses snubber circuits used in power converters. It defines snubber circuits and explains that they help reduce transistor switching losses and stresses. It then provides examples of calculating component values for snubber circuits used in buck, boost, buck-boost, and flyback converter topologies. The examples calculate the capacitor and resistor values based on circuit parameters like input/output voltages, current, switching frequency, and transistor switching times.

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Snubber Circuit Design Guide

The document discusses snubber circuits used in power converters. It defines snubber circuits and explains that they help reduce transistor switching losses and stresses. It then provides examples of calculating component values for snubber circuits used in buck, boost, buck-boost, and flyback converter topologies. The examples calculate the capacitor and resistor values based on circuit parameters like input/output voltages, current, switching frequency, and transistor switching times.

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WORKSHOP

KONVERTER DAYA
BY:
MOH. ZAENAL EFENDI
INDUSTRIAL ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
PENS 2020

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SNUBBER CIRCUIT
• Snubber circuits reduce power losses in a
transistor during switching (although
not necessarily total switching losses)
• Protect the device from the switching
stresses of high voltages and currents or for
purposes of suppressing the surge voltage across
the transistor and improving its reliability,

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RCD SNUBBER

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Snubber Circuit Operation
• A snubber circuit alters the transistor voltage and current
waveforms to an advantage. The snubber provides
another path for load current during turnoff. As the
transistor is turning off and the voltage across it is
increasing, the snubber diode Ds becomes forward
biased and the capacitor begins to charge. The rate of
change of transistor voltage is reduced by the capacitor,
delaying its voltage transition from low to high.

• The capacitor charges to the final off-state voltage across


the transistor and remains charged while the transistor is
off.

• When the transistor turns on, the capacitor discharges


through the snubber resistor and transistor
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Snubber Circuit Operation

• The size of the snubber capacitor determines the


rate of voltage rise across the switch at turnoff. The
transistor carries the load current prior to turnoff,
and during turnoff the transistor current decreases
approximately linearly until it
reaches zero.
• The load diode remains off until the capacitor
voltage reaches Vs. The snubber capacitor carries
the remainder of the load current until the load
diode turns on

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Snubber Circuit Calculations
for DC-DC Converter

DT I ON  t fall
Rsnubber  Csnubber 
2  Csnubber 2  VOFF

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Snubber Calculations for
Buck Converter
Example:
Please design a Snubber Circuit for Buck Converter
with following parameters:
Vs=24Volt
Vo=12 Volt
Io=3A
fs=40kHz
Switching component is MOSFET IRFP460 with tfall=43ns

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We know that:
I ON  I o  3 A
Voff  Vs  24Volt
12
Duty cycle : D   0.5
24
1 1
Peride :T   3
 25s
f s 40 10

Snubber capacitor can be calculated:

I ON  t fall
Csnubber 
2  VOFF
3  43 10 9
Csnubber 
2  24
Csnubber  2.69nF
Csnubber  2.7nF
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Now, we calculate snubber resistor:

DT
Rsnubber 
2  C snubber
0.5  25 10 6
Rsnubber 
2  2.7 10 9
Rsnubber  2315 
Rsnubber  1100 

We use diode FR307 for snubber diode (fast


recovery diode

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Snubber Calculations of Boost Converter

Example:
Please design a Snubber Circuit for Boost Converter
with following parameters:

Vs=12Volt
Vo=24 Volt
Io=2A
fs=40kHz
Switching component is MOSFET IRFP460 with tfall=43ns

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We know that:
Vo 24
I ON  I i  I o   2  4A
Vs 12
Voff  Vo  24Volt
Vs 12
Duty cycle : D  1   1  0.5
Vo 24
1 1
Peride :T    25s
f s 40 103

Snubber capacitor can be calculated:

I ON  t fall
C snubber 
2  VOFF
4  43 10 9
C snubber 
2  24
C snubber  3.6nF
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Now, we calculate snubber resistor:

DT
Rsnubber 
2  C snubber
0.5  25 10 6
Rsnubber 
2  3.6 10 9
Rsnubber 1736 
Rsnubber  850 

We use diode FR307 for snubber diode

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Snubber Calculations for
Buck-Boost Converter
Example:
Please design a Snubber Circuit for Buck-Boost Converter
with following parameters:
Vs=9 Volt
Vo=14,5 Volt
Io=2A
fs=40kHz
Switching component is MOSFET IRFP460 with tfall=43ns

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We know that:

Po V I 14.5  2
I ON  I L   o o   6.444 A
Vs  D Vs  D 9  0.5
Voff  23.5Volt
Vs 12
Duty cycle : D  1   1  0.5
Vo 24
1 1
Peride :T    25s
f s 40 103

Snubber capacitor can be calculated:

I ON  t fall
Csnubber 
2  VOFF
6.444  43  109
Csnubber 
2  23.5
Csnubber  6nF

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Now, we calculate snubber resistor:

DT
Rsnubber 
2  Csnubber
6
0.5  25 10
Rsnubber 
2  6 10 9
Rsnubber 1042 
Rsnubber  500 

We use diode FR307 for snubber diode

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Snubber Calculations for
Flyback Converter
Example:
Please design a Snubber Circuit for Flyback Converter
with following parameters:
Vs=50 Volt
N1:N2 =2
Vo=10 Volt
Io=2A
fs=40kHz
Switching component is MOSFET IRFP460 with tfall=43ns

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