Development of 80-kW High-Voltage Power Supply for X-ray Generator

This article describes the development of an 80-kW high-voltage power supply (HVPS) to drive an X-ray tube. Since the developed HVPS is based on an LCC resonant converter with a symmetrical bipolar voltage multiplier (SBVM), it shows many superior features such as soft switching capability and low voltage imbalance among stages. In addition, the proposed circuit has high power density because a series resonant capacitor is removed by using a method converting the SBVM into capacitors and the full-wave rectifier. Furthermore, a suggested transformer achieves high insulation performance and effective winding area utilization by applying half of the output voltage to the core. The detailed design based on the fundamental harmonic approximation is presented for the practical use of the LCC resonant converter with the SBVM in high voltage and high power applications. Also, some significant issues in the implementation are addressed. The performance of the developed HVPS is verified by simulations and experimental results.