Abstract
A bidirectional resonant converter is presented and verified in this paper for an electric vehicle battery charger/discharger system. The presented circuit can achieve forward and backward power operation, low switching losses on active devices, and wide output voltage operation. The circuit structure of the presented converter includes two resonant circuits on the primary and secondary sides of an isolated transformer. The frequency modulation approach is adopted to control the studied circuit. Owing to the resonant circuit characteristic, active devices for both forward (battery charge) and backward (battery discharge) power operation can be turned on at zero voltage switching. In order to implement a universal battery charger for different kinds of electric vehicle applications, the DC converter is demanded to have a wide output voltage range capability. The topology morphing between a full bridge resonant circuit and half bridge resonant circuit is selected to obtain high- and low-output voltage range operations so that the 200–500 V output voltage range is realized in the presented resonant converter. Compared to the conventional bidirectional converters, the proposed can be operated under a wide voltage range operation. In the end, a 1 kW laboratory prototype circuit is built, and experiments are provided to demonstrate the validity and performance of the presented bidirectional resonant converter.
Highlights
The conventional buck/boost converter shown in Figure 2a is used to realize forward and backward power flows for battery charge and discharge operations
For low- and high-output voltage range modes under forward power operation, input terminal voltages are in/2 and VV
If the output battery stack voltage is in the high voltage range Vo = 310–450 V, the full bridge resonant circuit (Sac off) is operated on the proposed converter to achieve battery charge
Summary
The conventional buck/boost converter shown in Figure 2a is used to realize forward and backward power flows for battery charge and discharge operations. For forward power operation, S5–S8 are the output voltage terminal in the proposed circuit. Figure resonant converter with bidirectional power flowflow and and widewide output voltage opFigure3.3.Proposed. Proposed resonant converter with bidirectional power output voltage eration: circuit structure; forward power flow and low output voltage range; forward operation: (a) circuit structure; (b) forward power flow and low output voltage range; (c) forward power flow and high-output voltage range; (d) backward power operation.
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