Three-Level Bidirectional Converter for Fuel-Cell/Battery Hybrid Power

System
Ke Jin; Mengxiong Yang; Xinbo Ruan; Min Xu;
Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on
Volume: 57 , Issue: 6
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TIE.2009.2031197
Publication Year: 2010 , Page(s): 1976 - 1986

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A novel three-level (3L) bidirectional converter (BDC) is proposed in this paper.

Compared with the traditional BDC, the inductor of the 3L BDC can be reduced
significantly so that the dynamic response is greatly improved. Hence, the proposed
converter is very suitable for fuel-cell/battery hybrid power systems. In addition, the
voltage stress on the switch of the proposed converter is only half of the voltage on the
high-voltage side, so it is also suitable for high-voltage applications. The operation
principle and the implementation of the control circuit are presented in detail. This paper
also proposes a novel bidirectional soft-start control strategy for the BDC. A 1-kW
prototype converter is built to verify the theoretical analysis. Read More»