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access icon free Bidirectional soft-switching dc–dc converter for battery energy storage systems

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Received 12/02/2018, Accepted 14/06/2018, Revised 11/05/2018, Published 11/07/2018

The study introduces a bidirectional dc–dc converter with current- and voltage-fed (VF) ports that features soft switching in both buck and boost operating modes. The converter can be used for integration of low-voltage DC sources, such as batteries into a dc bus of considerably higher voltage or a dc link of a grid side inverter. Zero current switching, assisted with the leakage inductance of the isolation transformer, can be achieved at the current-fed side along with zero voltage switching of the VF side, assisted by snubber or intrinsic capacitances of the transistors. Soft switching can be maintained over a wide range of voltage and power levels, regardless of the energy transfer direction. Converter operation is described and theoretical findings were verified with experimental results obtained by means of a 300 W prototype operating at a switching frequency of 100 kHz and designed for integration of a 24 V battery into 400 V dc bus. The converter proposed is compared in terms of efficiency to other competing soft-switching full-bridge topologies implemented with the same components.

Inspec keywords: power transistors; zero current switching; invertors; snubbers; zero voltage switching; power grids; battery storage plants; DC-DC power convertors

Other keywords: transistor snubber capacitance; leakage inductance; voltage 24 V; transistor intrinsic capacitance; frequency 100 kHz; boost operating mode; current-fed port; power 300 W; soft-switching full-bridge topologies; zero current switching; grid side inverter; voltage level; switching frequency; power level; battery energy storage systems; energy transfer direction; dc link; isolation transformer; dc bus; voltage-fed port; zero voltage switching; low-voltage DC sources; VF side; buck operating mode; bidirectional soft-switching dc-dc converter

Subjects: Power semiconductor devices; Other power stations and plants

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