Abstract
Wireless charging technology adapts to the electrified, lightweight, and intelligent trends of electric vehicle development. However, energy efficiency of wireless charging is still lower than conductive charging, and it is important for the wireless charging system to achieve global efficiency optimization in a constant current–constant voltage (CC–CV) charging operation. This paper proposes a novel system configuration, which adds an active power source into the receiver of the wireless charging system. It is proved that the efficiency can be increased significantly with amplitude and phase of the active power source be properly set. A novel current decoupling algorithm is used to analyze the efficiency of the new configuration, and a simulation model is established to validate the theoretical result and to explain the mechanism of efficiency improvement. The simulation shows that the active power source is able to change the power distribution and the current balance, and as a result, the efficiency increases in part of the operating region. The proposed configuration is realized in the experiment and then the efficiency improvement is demonstrated. The experimental result shows that the efficiency increases from 84.9% to 95.7% in a low coupling and slightly detuning working condition.
Highlights
With the promotion of electric vehicle (EV) and continuously increase of energy density of onboard EV battery, charging technology has become an important research field
Shi et al.: Efficiency Improvement of Wireless Charging System Based on active power source (APS) in Receiver system difficult to achieve global efficiency optimization in the charging operation
When the active power source works as a load, the current balance gets worse so the efficiency decreases
Summary
With the promotion of electric vehicle (EV) and continuously increase of energy density of onboard EV battery, charging technology has become an important research field. It is based on the technology of inductive power transfer. Technical problems of wireless charging are mainly focused on three areas: (1) coil design, (2) compensation topologies, (3) power electronic converters and control methods [1], [6]. B. Shi et al.: Efficiency Improvement of Wireless Charging System Based on APS in Receiver. This paper is aimed at proposing a new system configuration, and realizing efficiency improvement based on this.
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