Abstract
Renewable energy systems and electric vehicles (EVs) are receiving much attention in industrial and scholarly communities owing to their roles in reducing pollutant emissions. Integrated energy systems (IES), which connect different types of renewable energies and storages, have become common in many applications, such as the grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) and battery systems, fuel cells and battery/supercapacitor in EVs. The advantages of all energy sources are maximized by utilizing connection and control strategies. Because many storage systems and household loads are mainly direct current (DC) types, the DC grid has considerable potential for increasing the efficiency of distribution grids in the future. In IES and future DC grid systems, the triple active bridge (TAB) converter is an isolated bidirectional DC-DC converter that has many advantages as a core circuit. Therefore, this paper reviews the characteristics of the TAB converter in current applications and suggests next-generation applications. First, the characteristics and operation modes of the TAB converter are introduced. An overview of all current applications of the TAB converter is then presented. The advantages and challenges of the TAB converter in each application are discussed. Thereafter, the potential future applications of the TAB converter with an adaptable power transmission design are presented.
Highlights
In current years, renewable energy systems and electric vehicles (EVs) have been increasingly used [1,2,3,4,5,6]
The half-bridge triple active bridge (TAB) converter is suitable [50]. This shows that the TAB converter is an excellent selection for these proposed systems where all operation modes are achieved by one converter
This shows that all the operation modes of the TAB converter can be applied in this application to maximize the power and lifetime of the system
Summary
Renewable energy systems and electric vehicles (EVs) have been increasingly used [1,2,3,4,5,6]. The IESs can optimize the advantages of all the energy systems This type of IES will be developed more in the future. It has advantages such as a bidirectional power flow with high efficiency. The triple-active-bridge (TAB) converter was proposed to connect one more element by adding one more port to the DAB converter, as shown in Figure 2 [17]. The future DC grid has potential in household applications, for which the TAB converter has an advantage [19,20,21,22]. This becomes a reference for researchers and engineers in the related topic for improving the TAB converter in current applications and extending applications
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