Journal of Power Electronics

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Wide input/output control strategy for multiphase series capacitor bidirectional DC-DC converters

  • Guo, Zheng (School of Electrical Engineering, Shandong University) ;
  • Wang, Yubin (School of Electrical Engineering, Shandong University) ;
  • Wang, Fan (School of Electrical Engineering, Shandong University) ;
  • Tian, Xinna (School of Electrical Engineering, Shandong University) ;
  • Dong, Yuxiang (School of Electrical Engineering, Shandong University)
  • Received : 2020.09.24
  • Accepted : 2021.01.19
  • Published : 2021.05.20
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Abstract

The series capacitor converter is one kind of high-gain bidirectional DC-DC converter based on interleaved and switched capacitor techniques. For the n-phase series capacitor converter, n times voltage gain when compared with the traditional boost converter under a specific duty cycle, as well as automatic current sharing among phases can be achieved. The specific duty cycle is (n - 1)/n to 1 in the boost mode and 0 to 1/n in the buck mode, which means that it is not suitable for wide input and/or wide output applications. To solve this issue, an 180° interleaved switching strategy is proposed in this paper. The proposed strategy is more suitable for converters to widen the working duty cycle range. The working principle, voltage gain and current distribution/sharing characteristics with the duty cycle ranging from 0 to 1 are analyzed and calculated in greater detail. In addition, as one of the n-phase series capacitor converters, a small signal model of a three-phase series capacitor converter is built, and a dual closed-loop controller is studied and designed. Finally, an experimental prototype with an input voltage that varies from 10 to 30 V and an output voltage of 100 V is built and tested. Results obtained with the prototype verify the correctness of the proposed switching strategy.

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Acknowledgement

This research work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of P. R. of China (Grant number 51277115), and the Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation (Grant number ZR2018MEE037).

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