Wong and Kazerani - 2012 - A Review of Bidirectional On-Board Charger Topologies For Plugin Vehicles
Wong and Kazerani - 2012 - A Review of Bidirectional On-Board Charger Topologies For Plugin Vehicles
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frequency, reduced harmonics, higher power factor on ac-side and 2.3.3. Capacitor Clamped Converter
better-regulated lower-ripple dc-side voltage. Multilevel converters
are suitable for high-power, high-voltage applications. The draw- A flying capacitor is adopted in the capacitor clamped topology pro-
backs include control complexity and power circuit cost, making it posed in [14] and shown in Fig. 3. All four switches in this circuit
difficult to justify for applications where one charging level is de- have a voltage stress of VDC /2. The overall control scheme for
sired. this converter is identical to that presented in [13] for the switched
In the following, four different single-phase three-level PWM clamped topology. Experimental results from a lab prototype indi-
ac-dc converters topologies reported in [12–15] will be described. cate an efficiency of 86% with close to unity power factor at 1kW
power level [14].
2.3.1. Diode Clamped Converter
The diode clamped topology [12] is shown in Fig. 1. Each switch T1 +
experiences a voltage stress of VDC /2. An outer loop regulates the C1
dc voltage and an inner loop guarantees a high-quality sinusoidal
L T2
current and a unity power factor at the interface with the utility grid.
Reference [12] reports an efficiency of 90% and a power factor of
VDC
0.998 at the power level of 900W obtained from a lab prototype. Vgrid
T2’ Cf
T1 +
C1 C2 -
T1’
L T2
VDC
Vgrid Fig. 3. Capacitor Clamped Three-Level PWM Converter
T1’
C2 -
T2’
2.3.4. Other Multilevel Converters
C1
L T1 T2’
T1 +
C1 VDC
S Vgrid
L
VDC
Vgrid T1’ C2
-
T2 C2
-
Fig. 4. Three-Level PWM Converter
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Full-Bridge AC- DC Two-Quadrant Buck-Boost
2.4. Isolated AC-DC Converter
+
Galvanic isolation can be a desirable feature for a plugin vehicle T1 T3 T5
charger due to safety reasons [16]. A single-stage isolated bidi-
L
rectional charger is introduced in [17]. The proposed converter, il- LDC
lustrated in Fig. 5, combines two active bridges with an interme- Vgrid
C VDC
diate high-frequency ac link and a series resonant tank. The high-
frequency ac link increases power density and the presence of the
CDC vbatt
resonant tank results in soft-switching operation.
T2 T4 T6
The purposed control scheme uses square wave modulation
-
on the grid-side active bridge while the modulating signal for the
battery-side active bridge is phase-shifted by an angle varying be-
tween −90◦ and 90◦ with respect to the first modulating signal to
allow bidirectional power flow. Unity power factor can be achieved Fig. 6. A Two-Stage Charger: Full-Bridge AC-DC + Two-Quadrant
with this control scheme. Buck-Boost
The battery-side dc current has a high ripple content at twice the
line frequency, asking for additional filtering.
3.2. Split-Phase Three-Leg AC-DC + Two Quadrant Buck-
Boost
Fig. 7 illustrates a two-stage charger designed specifically for an
American household [21, 22]. A split-phase three-leg AC-DC con-
S1 S1 S2 S3 verter is connected to the split-phase transformer at the main input
Series Resonant
panel on the grid-side and a two-quadrant buck-boost is used on the
C Tank
L 1:n battery-side. Again, a harmonic component at twice the line fre-
quency appears in the dc-link voltage.
Vgrid Cin vbatt Controller for the three-leg converter behaves based on the same
principle as the controller for the full-bridge converter. However,
[21] proposes using a 2nd order notch filter tuned to 120Hz in the
voltage feedback loop to remove the low-frequency harmonics in
S2 S3 the reference current. Moreover, a Proportional + Resonant (PR)
S1 S1
controller is utilized in the current control loop for better tracking.
S7 S5 S3 S1
C1 240V
Fig. 5. Single-Stage Isolated Battery Charger
L3 120V
C3 Utility
Plug
120V
vbatt S8 S6 S4 S2
3. TWO-STAGE TOPOLOGIES C2
3.1. Full-Bridge AC-DC + Two-Quadrant Buck-Boost 3.3. Full-Bridge AC-DC + Dual-Active Bridge DC-DC
A single-phase full-bridge AC-DC converter combined with a two- Conventional two-stage topologies connect the two converters via a
quadrant buck-boost DC-DC converter (Fig. 6) is a popular topology high-voltage electrolytic capacitor to filter out dc-link voltage and to
for the bidirectional on-board charger [2–4, 18–20]. The AC-DC provide the necessary buffering. High-voltage electrolytic capacitors
converter is responsible for ac-side current waveshaping, power fac- are not suitable for on-board chargers because of their bulkiness and
tor correction and regulating the dc-link voltage, while the DC-DC their short lifetime. Newer charger designs aim to reduce the size
converter controls the charging and discharging current of the battery of the dc-link capacitor through implementing novel control strate-
through buck and boost operations. These chargers, even though rel- gies [23]. The topology in Fig. 8 incorporates two existing converter
atively easy to design and implement, are challenged by the dc-link topologies: full-bridge AC-DC converter and a dual-active bridge
voltage ripple content at twice the grid frequency. (DAB) DC-DC converter. The DAB converter is chosen for its extra
The control schemes discussed in [18] and [19] are very similar. galvanic isolation for higher power applications.
A rather slow outer loop is used to control the dc link voltage and Conventionally, the AC-DC converter regulates the dc voltage
generate the amplitude of the ac-side current reference. and provides power factor correction, while the DC-DC converter
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Full-Bridge AC-DC DAB Bidirectional DC-DC Three-Level AC-DC Modified Bidirectional Buck-Boost T1
S1 S2 D3 S7
+ T2
Sa Sb S1 S2 S3 S4
D1
L LL RL C1 High Voltage Bus
D5 S10
S3
Vgrid VDC vbatt
L1 R1
D2 C2
S9
D4 C3 vbatt
S5 S6
Fig. 8. Two Stage Charger: Full-Bridge AC-DC + DAB DC-DC
controls the direction of the current and output ripples. Since the cur-
rent reference is difficult to define in the DAB, novel control strate- Fig. 9. Integrated Charger Three-Level AC-DC + Modified Buck-
gies propose that the roles of the controllers be switched. Conse- Boost Converter
quently, the controller for the DAB is now responsible for regulating
the dc link voltage, whereas the controller of the full-bridge becomes
the inductances in the motor windings for filtering purposes. This
a current regulator. This eliminates low-frequency ripple content in
integrated charger can achieve unity power factor.
the dc link and considerably reduces the capacitor size. However,
The proposed integrated charger is a non-isolated solution. Al-
this advantage is achieved at the price of added cost and weight of
though the hardware and control implementations are relatively sim-
the switches in the DAB.
ple, this solution requires high number of switches.
The idea of integrating the battery charger with the high voltage a c
(HV) bus of plugin vehicle was first proposed in [24] in 2009. The
original design cascades a diode rectifier with a modified buck-boost
EMI Filters
converter. Much of the pioneer work was dedicated to the modified
Single-Phase
buck-boost converter design, which supports three modes of opera- or
Three-Phase
tion: plug-in charging, battery discharge to high-voltage dc bus and
Vgrid
regenerative charging from the HV bus. However, the use of diode
rectifier prevents vehicle-to-grid power flow. A more comprehensive
solution to support bidirectionality is presented in [25]. As shown in Fig. 10. Integrated Charger using AC Motor Windings
Fig. 9, a three-level PWM AC-DC converter is adopted on the grid-
side for its ability to achieve close-to-zero current harmonics and
unity power factor. This integrated charger reduces the number of 4.3. Integrated Charger Based on Permanent Magnet Syn-
high-current inductors. chronous Machine
Current-mode PWM control is adopted for controlling the
charger. The operation details are explained in [26]. The charger Permanent-magnet synchronous motors (PMSM) are a favorable
does not utilize any switching devices to configure the circuitry for choice as a traction motor for electric vehicles owing to their high
different operating modes; therefore, careful coordination of the con- efficiency and ruggedness [28–30]. An integrated charger system
trollable switches is needed for the safe operation of this charger. including a PMSM is reported in [31]. This topology contains a
three-phase full-bridge AC-DC converter and a bidirectional DC-DC
4.2. Integrated Charger using AC Motor Windings converter. It supports five operating modes: (a) boost power transfer
from battery to high voltage bus, (b) regenerative charging of bat-
Another integrated topology utilizes the traction AC motor windings tery, (c) plug-in charging of battery, (d) standalone inverter, and (e)
in a plugin vehicle to realize the AC-DC part of the charger. The in- power delivery from battery to grid.
tegrated topology discussed in [27] is composed of three full-bridge This charger reduces the number of inductors and eliminates cur-
PWM converters for grid-side connection and traction control, and a rent transformers. However, the efficiency of the proposed charger
two quadrant buck-boost chopper for dc-side management. Fig. 10 is slightly lower than that of its unidirectional version due to extra
shows the proposed integrated charger. It is possible to interface conduction losses. Simulation results show that sinusoidal current
this integrated charger with both single-phase and three-phase util- with unity power factor can be observed in both direction of power
ity grids. Most of the size reduction is realized through the use of flow at the utility grid interface.
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4.4. Integrated Charger Based on Induction Motor 5. CONCLUSIONS
An integrated charger based on an induction machine is reported A review of the converter topologies used in single-stage and two-
in [32]. This integrated charger uses a novel Eight-Switch Inverter stage on-board bidirectional battery chargers with V2G capability
(ESI) and an interleaved DC-DC converter. Fig.11 illustrates this in- for plugin vehicles were presented in this paper. Single-stage topolo-
tegrated charger. The ESI has four operating modes: (a) DC-AC in- gies are simple, but are limited to level 1 charging. Two stage topolo-
verter, (b) three-phase PWM AC-DC rectifier for transferring power gies are suitable for high-voltage charging and achieve better perfor-
from induction motor to dc link, (c) single-phase PWM AC-DC con- mances with a tradeoff in size and weight. Integrated topologies aim
verter for charging the battery from the grid, and (d) single-phase to reduce component count by combining existing power electronics
DC-AC inverter for delivering power from the battery back to the in motor drives.
grid.
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