This paper is published in Volume-4, Issue-3, 2018
Area
Power Electronics
Author
Sreelakshmi K S, Ninu Joy, Deena Mathew
Org/Univ
Mar Athanasius College of Engineering, Kothamangalam, Kerala, India
Pub. Date
28 May, 2018
Paper ID
V4I3-1618
Publisher
Keywords
Plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, Uninterruptible power supply, Soft-switching, Snubber, Zero voltage switching, Zero current switching

Citationsacebook

IEEE
Sreelakshmi K S, Ninu Joy, Deena Mathew. Soft switching bidirectional DC-DC converter for energy storage systems, International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology, www.IJARIIT.com.

APA
Sreelakshmi K S, Ninu Joy, Deena Mathew (2018). Soft switching bidirectional DC-DC converter for energy storage systems. International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology, 4(3) www.IJARIIT.com.

MLA
Sreelakshmi K S, Ninu Joy, Deena Mathew. "Soft switching bidirectional DC-DC converter for energy storage systems." International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology 4.3 (2018). www.IJARIIT.com.

Abstract

Bidirectional DC-DC converters are one of the most important parts of energy storage systems such as in plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV), the fuel-cell vehicle, renewable energy system, and uninterruptible power supply (UPS). Energy storage systems are used for storing energy and use it during fluctuations or supply outage. To improve its efficiency a soft-switching bidirectional DC-DC converter using a lossless active snubber is used. In this converter, Zero Voltage Switching (ZVS) of the main switches and Zero Current Switching (ZCS) of the auxiliary switches are always achieved by utilizing an active snubber which consists of auxiliary switches, diodes, an inductor, and a capacitor. In addition, by utilizing this active snubber, there is no reverse recovery problem induced by the poor dynamic performance of the MOSFETs body diode. Moreover, by adjusting according to loads, it is possible to achieve optimized overall efficiency throughout the whole loading range. This system is analyzed by the simulation in MATLAB/SIMULINK 2017. Hardware is implemented using dsPIC30f2010 microcontroller for 20W and 20 kHz and results are verified.