Design of A 97%-efficiency 10kW power factor correction for fast electric chargers of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles

Author

Taylor, Allan ; Wang, Xuntuo ; Bai, Hua ; Szatmari-Voicu, Gyula ; Patterson, Jeff ; Kane, James

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Kettering Univ., Flint, MI, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

18-20 June 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Power factor correction controllers are widely used in the battery chargers of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle, connecting the grid with charging system to reach power factor equal to 1. Increasing the operational efficiency of the PFC is the inward search. This paper presents a three-phase full-bridge PFC circuit with >;97% efficiency at 10kW. Comparison of different control algorithms with corresponding power loss calculations is pursued to optimize the system design. Experiments on two 208VAC/10kW PFC prototypes equipped with either fast reverse recovery diode or Silicon Carbide Schottky Diode respectively validated the effectiveness of the design.

Keywords

diodes; hybrid electric vehicles; power control; power factor correction; PFC prototypes; control algorithms; fast electric chargers; fast reverse recovery diode; plug-in hybrid electric vehicles; power 10 kW; power factor correction controllers; silicon carbide Schottky diode; system design; three-phase full-bridge PFC circuit; Insulated gate bipolar transistors; Prototypes; Schottky diodes; Silicon carbide; Space vector pulse width modulation; Switches; Vectors; IGBT; Power Factor Correction (PFC); Rectifier; SVPWM; Schottky diodes; Silicon Carbide; soft switching;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo (ITEC), 2012 IEEE

Conference_Location

Dearborn, MI

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1407-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-1406-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITEC.2012.6243498

Filename

6243498