CCM boost inductor design

[Jan Panteltje]

On a sunny day (Sun, 4 Aug 2019 22:06:52 -0400) it happened Phil Hobbs
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On 8/4/19 1:58 AM, Steve Wilson wrote:
Winfield Hill <winfieldhill@yahoo.com> wrote:

Nobody does active rectification? Common at lower voltages.
I think the HV transmission-line guys can get well over 99%.

I heard 5% is lost in transmission. That's why some long distance HV
transmissions use DC. But that's not a reason to ignore conversion losses.

If you are shipping 5GW, then 1% is 5e9*0.01 = 50,000,000W. A very good
reason to reduce losses. Where are you going to put the heat?


DC transmission is actually mostly to reduce corona losses, which depend
on the peak voltage. You can put twice the power through a given line.

Not exactly, there is a lot more to it than that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current