QRAS and SAZZ Chopper for 1EV Drive Application

Author

Tsuruta, Y. ; Kawamura, A.

Author_Institution

Yokohama Nat. Univ., Yokohama

fYear

2007

fDate

2-5 April 2007

Firstpage

1260

Lastpage

1267

Abstract

In this paper, the technical stream on a high efficiency and high frequency chopper for the automotive industry, new energy and energy conservation technology field is surveyed. QRAS and SAZZ topologies aimed for the hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) drive application were proposed. 25 kHz-8 kW QRAS, 100 kHz-8 kW SAZZ choppers and 50 kHz-25 kW bilateral SAZZ-1 chopper were constructed and tested under rating conditions. It was verified that SAZZ topology retained high efficiency even at the increased operating frequency of 100 kHz. It is shown that high efficiency can be realized at high operating frequency even in high power converters by QRAS and newly proposed SAZZ soft switching topologies.

Keywords

DC-DC power convertors; choppers (circuits); electric drives; hybrid electric vehicles; switching convertors; DC-DC converter; HEV drive application; IGBT; QRAS chopper; SAZZ chopper; automotive industry; energy conservation technology; frequency 100 kHz; frequency 25 kHz; frequency 50 kHz; hybrid electric vehicle; power 25 kW; power 8 kW; power converters; soft switching topologies; Choppers; Circuit topology; Frequency; Prototypes; Schottky diodes; Silicon carbide; Switches; Switching circuits; Switching converters; Voltage; DC-DC converter; IGBT; chopper; soft switching;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Conversion Conference - Nagoya, 2007. PCC '07

Conference_Location

Nagoya

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0844-X

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0844-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PCCON.2007.373127

Filename

4239317