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A Novel PWM High Voltage Conversion

Ratio Bi-Directional Three-Phase DC/DC
Converter with Y- Connected
Transformer
Abstract
Bi-directional DC-DC converter (BDC) is usually applied between DC
bus and energy storage unit in DC micro-grid. The DC bus voltage level is
about 360-400V, while the voltage of battery cell is as low as 12V or 48V.
Thus there is a big disparity between the two power sources in which the BDC
needs high voltage conversion ratio (HVCR). A high voltage level can be
acquired with batteries in series; however, extra charging and discharging
balance circuits are needed in order to avoid the problems of overcharge and
over discharge which will influence the lifespan of batteries. In high power
conditions, the voltage of battery cell is 12V or 48V that the power
semiconductors and magnetic components face severe current stress.
Paralleling of power switches becomes popular solution to increase the current
rating; however, it may incur several problems, such as current sharing and
complicated control strategy. Therefore, its necessary and meaningful to
research BDC with HVCR in high power ratings application.

Existing system
The TPDAB is composed of three interleaving single-phase dual active bridge
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current source bidirectional DC/DC converters (DAB), and each phase output
is 120 degree apart from each other. In this mode, the input current rating is
increased by interleaving three phases, not by paralleling components, and the
ripple frequency will be increased to three times the switching frequency and
current ripple will be greatly reduced due to cancelling effects between each
phase. The power flow of the TPDAB is controlled by the shifting phase
between active bridges at low voltage side (LVS) and high voltage side (HVS).
When energy flows from the 12V net side to the high voltage DC (HVDC)
netside, the TPDAB works in boost mode, in which the driving pulses at LVS
are ahead of that at HVS. The leakage inductances La~Lc of the high frequency
transformer are acting as intermediate elements to store and transfer the power.
The 12V net, the coupling three-phase input inductors L1~L3, and the switches
S2, S4, S6 compose boost circuits. The duty cycles of the switches S1, S3, S5
are set at D, so the voltage V1 of capacitor C1 is boosted to 1/D times of Vin.
The capacitors C1, C2 are used to handle high switching current ripple and
maintain a nearly constant dc bus voltage. The stress of each switch of TPDAB
converter is about one third of the single-phase topology, although the total
stress is about the same for both converters since the number of switches is
increased three times in TPDAB converter. The current stress of capacitors C1
and C2 of three-phase topology is much lower than that of the single-phase
circuit therefore smaller capacitor could be used for three-phase topology and
power density will be improved.

Proposed system
The topology of proposed three-phase BDC with Y-connected
transformer. The high voltage side (HVS) connected to DC bus is three-phase
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full-bridge chopper unit composed of power MOSFETs QH1-QH6 paralleled
with body diodes DH1 DH6. The low voltage side (LVS) is a current-tripler
unit composed of power MOSFETs QL1-QL3 paralleled with body diodes
DL1-DL3, filter inductors Lf1-Lf3 and filter capacitor CfL. If the energy
transfers from HVS to LVS, the converter works in Buck mode, otherwise in
Boost mode.

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