{"title":"A new two-stage converter with reduction of DC-link capacitor for plug-in electric vehicle battery charger","authors":"A. Singh, M. Pathak, Y. S. Rao","doi":"10.1109/CIACT.2017.7977338","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The battery charger manufacturers want high power density with lower size and weight for on-board plug-in electric vehicles. But battery chargers with isolated converters is one of the major barriers for weight and power density. In addition, due to flow of second harmonic ripple in dc-link, a bulky dc-link capacitor is deployed at PFC stage, which has another cause of low power density in two stage battery charging. To deal with above aspects, this study presents a two-stage single-phase non-isolated converter for an onboard plug-in electric vehicles with sinusoidal charging battery method. The first stage is a conventional boost power factor correction (PFC) converter and the second stage is a proposed bidirectional dc/dc converter. In addition that, the second stage bidirectional dc/dc converter also has efficiency improvement compared to conventional two switches buck/ boost converter. The sinusoidal charging method of the battery allows to reduce the dc-link capacitor about 85–90% compared to conventional two-stage charging methods. The simulation results are shown to validate the proposed charger.","PeriodicalId":218079,"journal":{"name":"2017 3rd International Conference on Computational Intelligence & Communication Technology (CICT)","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2017-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"11","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2017 3rd International Conference on Computational Intelligence & Communication Technology (CICT)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CIACT.2017.7977338","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 11
Abstract
The battery charger manufacturers want high power density with lower size and weight for on-board plug-in electric vehicles. But battery chargers with isolated converters is one of the major barriers for weight and power density. In addition, due to flow of second harmonic ripple in dc-link, a bulky dc-link capacitor is deployed at PFC stage, which has another cause of low power density in two stage battery charging. To deal with above aspects, this study presents a two-stage single-phase non-isolated converter for an onboard plug-in electric vehicles with sinusoidal charging battery method. The first stage is a conventional boost power factor correction (PFC) converter and the second stage is a proposed bidirectional dc/dc converter. In addition that, the second stage bidirectional dc/dc converter also has efficiency improvement compared to conventional two switches buck/ boost converter. The sinusoidal charging method of the battery allows to reduce the dc-link capacitor about 85–90% compared to conventional two-stage charging methods. The simulation results are shown to validate the proposed charger.