A Single-Phase Battery Charger Design for LEV Based on DC-SRC With Resonant Valley-Fill Circuit

Author

Jun-Young Lee ; Young-Doo Yoon ; Jung-Won Kang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Myongji Univ., Yongin, South Korea

Volume

62

Issue

4

fYear

2015

fDate

Apr-15

Firstpage

2195

Lastpage

2205

Abstract

This paper suggests a single-phase and single-stage battery charger for a light electric vehicle to improve the lifetime by removing high voltage electrolytic capacitors. The proposed charger is based on a diode-clamped series resonant converter equipped with a resonant valley-fill circuit, which increases the power factor by removing dead zones in the line current and reduces the switching loss of the valley-fill circuit. The feasibility of the proposed charger has been verified with a 1.7-kW prototype.

Keywords

battery chargers; battery powered vehicles; electrolytic capacitors; power factor; resonant power convertors; DC-SRC; LEV; dead zone; diode-clamped series resonant converter; high voltage electrolytic capacitor; light electric vehicle; power 1.7 kW; power factor; resonant valley-fill circuit; single-phase battery charger design; single-stage battery charger; switching loss; Battery chargers; Capacitors; Equivalent circuits; Films; Power harmonic filters; RLC circuits; Video recording; Battery charger; electric vehicle; resonant converter;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0278-0046

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TIE.2014.2351371

Filename

6882835