• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.312-323
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• 2017

This paper introduces the bidirectional dc-dc converter design case study, which employs silicon-carbide (SiC) MOSFETs for battery energy storage system (BESS). This converter topology is selected as bidirectional synchronous buck converter, which is composed of a half bridge converter, an inductor, and a capacitor, where the converter has less conduction loss than that of a unidirectional buck and boost converter, and to improve the converter efficiency, both the power stage design and power conversion architecture are described in detail. The conduction and switching losses are compared among three different SiC devices in this paper. In addition, the thermal analysis using Maxwell software of each switching device supports the loss analyses, in which both the 2 kW prototype analyses and experimental results show very good agreement.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.311-318
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• 2008

본 논문은 소프트 스위칭 기법을 적용한 싱크로너스 양방향 DC-DC 컨버터를 제안한다. 제안된 컨버터는 싱크로너스 벅 컨버터를 병렬구성을 하여 인터리브드 기법을 통해 도통 손실을 줄이고, 하나의 공진인덕터를 사용한 ZVT-Cell을 적용함으로써 스위칭 손실을 최소화 하였다. 전 부하 범위에서 CCM(Continuous Conduction Mode) 으로 동작하고 ZVS가 성립되도록 하였으며, 전류주입 기법을 통해 넓은 출력전압 범위에서도 ZVS 조건을 만족하였다. 또한, 기존 싱크로너스 벅 컨버터의 데드타임(dead time)동안 발생하는 역병렬 다이오드의 도통손실 및 dv/dt, di/dt 발생을 저감하는 효과를 얻을 수 있다. 제안된 컨버터의 유효성은 실험을 통해서 검증하였다.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.235-244
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• 2010

This paper presents a new isolated soft-switching bidirectional buck-boost inverter for fuel cell applications. The buck-boost inverter combines an isolated DC-DC converter with a conventional inverter to implement buck-boost DC-DC and DC-AC conversion. The main switches achieve zero voltage switching and zero current switching by using a novel synchronous switching SVPWM and the volume of the transformer in the forward and fly-back mode is also minimized. This inverter is suitable for wide input voltage applications due to its high efficiency under all conditions. An active clamping circuit reduces the switch's spike voltage and regenerates the energy stored in the leakage inductance of the transformer; therefore, the overall efficiency is improved. This paper presents the operating principle, a theoretical analysis and design guidelines. Simulation and experimental results have validated the characteristics of the buck-boost inverter.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제56권2호
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• pp.301-310
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• 2007

Bidirectional DC-DC converters allow transfer of power between two dc sources, in either direction. Due to their ability to reverse the direction of flow of power, Dey are being increasingly used in many applications such as battery charge/dischargers, do uninterruptible power supplies, electrical vehicle motor drives, aerospace power systems, telecom power supplies, etc. This Paper Proposes a new bidirectional Sepic/Zeta converter. It has low switching loss and low conduction loss due to auxiliary communicated circuit and synchronous rectifier operation, respectively Because of positive and buck/boost-like DC voltage transfer function(M=D/1-D), the proposed converter is very desirable for use in distributed power system. The proposed converter also has both transformer-less version and transformer one.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.2035-2044
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• 2016

In order to match the voltages between high voltage battery stacks and low voltage super-capacitors with a high conversion efficiency in hybrid energy sources electric vehicles (HESEVs), a high ratio bidirectional DC-DC converter with a synchronous rectification H-Bridge is proposed in this paper. The principles of high ratio step-down and step-up operations are analyzed. In terms of the bidirectional characteristic of the H-Bridge, the bidirectional synchronous rectification (SR) operation is presented without any extra hardware. Then the SR power switches can achieve zero voltage switching (ZVS) turn-on and turn-off during dead time, and the power conversion efficiency is improved compared to that of the diode rectification (DR) operation, as well as the utilization of power switches. Experimental results show that the proposed converter can operate bidirectionally in the wide ratio range of 3~10, when the low voltage continuously varies between 15V and 50V. The maximum efficiencies are 94.1% in the Buck mode, and 93.6% in the Boost mode. In addition, the corresponding largest efficiency variations between SR and DR operations are 4.8% and 3.4%. This converter is suitable for use as a power interface between the battery stacks and super-capacitors in HESEVs.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전기기기및에너지변환시스템부문B
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• 제55권4호
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• pp.224-230
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• 2006

The conventional way to implement a bidirectional converter with boost/buck has been to use two general purpose PWM ICs with a single supply voltage. In this case, when one direction mode is in operation, the other is disabled and the output of the error amplifier of the disabled IC may be saturated to a maximum value or zero. Therefore, during mode transition, a circuit which can disable the switching operation for a certain time interval is required making it impossible to get a seamless transition. In this paper, the limitations of the conventional 42V/14V bi-directional DC/DC converter implemented with general current mode PWM ICs with a single supply voltage are reviewed and a new current mode PWM controller circuit with a dual voltage system is proposed. The validity of the proposed circuit is investigated through simulation. and experiments.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2005년도 전력전자학술대회 논문집
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• pp.549-551
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• 2005

Bidirectional DC/DC converters allows transfer of power between two dc sources, in either direction. Due to their ability to reverse the direction of flow of power, they are being increasingly used in many applications such as battery charger/dischargers, dc uninterruptible power supplies, electrical vehicle motor drives, aerospace power systems, telecom power supplies, etc. This paper proposes a new bidirectional Sepic/zeta converter. It has low swicthing loss and low conduction loss due to auxiliary communicated circuit and synchronous rectifier operation, respectively. Because of positive and buck/boost-like DC voltage transfer function(M=D/1-D), the proposed converter is very desirable for use in distributed power system . The proposed converter also has both transformerless version and transformer one.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.97-105
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• 2013

The control method of the bidirectional DC/DC converter for instantaneous regenerative current control is described in this paper. The general method to control the DC/DC converter is the output voltage control. However, the regenerative current cannot be controlled to be constant with this control method. To improve the performance of the conventional control method, the DC-link voltage of the inverter is controlled within the tolerance range by the instantaneous boost and buck operations of the bidirectional DC/DC converter. By the proposed control method, the battery current can be controlled to be constant regardless of the motor speed variation. The improved performance of the DC/DC converter controlled by the proposed control method is verified by the experiment and simulation of the system with the inverter and IPMSM(Interior Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor) which is operated by the reduced practical speed profile.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2014년도 전력전자학술대회 논문집
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• pp.9-10
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• 2014

자동차 업계는 전장화 가속화와 강화된 환경규제에 대응하기 위해 자동차의 12[V] 전기시스템과 더불어 48[V] 전기 시스템에 대한 도입을 추진하고 있다. 듀얼 전기시스템을 사용할 경우 소모 전력이 적은 부품에 대해서는 기존의 12[V] 시스템을 유지하고 전력 소모가 큰 전동식 조향장치, 브레이크, 공조 시스템은 48[V] 시스템을 사용함으로써 비용을 최소화 하고 연비를 최대 15[%]까지 개선시킬 수 있는 특징을 갖고 있다. 이를 구현하기 위해서는 양방향 DC/DC 컨버터가 필수적 이며 LS그룹 계열사인 자동차부품 전문기업인 대성전기에서는 4-phase Synchronous Buck 구조의 양방향 DC/DC 컨버터를 개발하였다.