A Two-Stage Interleaved Bridgeless SEPIC based PFC Converter for Electric Vehicle Charging Application

Abstract

Electric vehicles are become more popular nowadays due to negligible gas emissions and less dependent on fossil fuel. However, the battery charging process is the main challenge that influences the electric vehicle (EV) transportation system. The power factor correction (PFC) and dc-dc converter stages are the main phases in the EV charging system. Various electric vehicle charging technologies are developed using different power electronics converter topologies, such as cuck, Zeta, SEPIC, and buck-boost converter. SEPIC (Single Ended Primary Inductor Converter) converter topology is the most preferred topology for battery charging applications due to providing non-inverting output with buck boost operation and reduced input and output ripple current. Although the SEPIC convertor topology has many advantages still possess a lot of challenges. The main challenges are reducing the converter size, conduction loss, voltage stress and increasing the efficiency when compared with the existing recent developed Bridgeless SEPIC topologies with interleaved concept. In this proposed research, a modified interleaved bridgeless, SEPIC based converter is proposed to improve the Power Quality (PQ) for vehicle charging station. The proposed topology is able to reduce the voltage stress, power loss, increase the converter efficiency and improve the power factor due to the bridgeless with interleaved configuration compared to other topologies. The preliminary design of the of the bridgeless interleaved topology is developed with the help of MATLAB Simulink software. The various preliminary results were obtained at the input supply voltage of 70-230 V ac supply.