Cascaded Dual-Active Bridge Cell Based Partial Power Converter for Battery Emulation

Sanchit Mishra, Sreekanth Tamballa, Manikanta Pallantala, Siddharth Raju, Ned Mohan

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Abstract

Battery emulators provide a method for examining various aspects of control algorithms and power interfacing converters used in applications such as AC/DC micro-grids, electric vehicle power train, battery cell balancing circuit and control, battery storage energy management system design, etc. Many of these applications can not afford the down time caused by recharging of batteries hence the testers usually keep an additional set of charged batteries, increasing the cost further. Due to non-linearities within battery chemistries and due to charge/discharge effects, two sets of batteries can no longer be considered identical. Additionally, actual batteries have extremely strict safety requirements that have to be fulfilled. To alleviate some of these issues, a battery emulator has been proposed in this paper to replicate the electrical characteristics of a battery. The emulator is designed using a partial power processing (input-parallel, output-series) approach such that high efficiency and low control effort is achieved by utilizing a dual-Active bridge (DAB) cell which is sized to less than 40% of overall power needed.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2019 IEEE 20th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics, COMPEL 2019
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781728118420
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2019
Event20th IEEE Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics, COMPEL 2019 - Toronto, Canada
Duration: Jun 17 2019Jun 20 2019

Publication series

Name2019 IEEE 20th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics, COMPEL 2019

Conference

Conference20th IEEE Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics, COMPEL 2019
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityToronto
Period6/17/196/20/19

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Funding support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Sustainability Research Network (SRN) grant-1444745 is gratefully acknowledged.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.

Keywords

  • battery
  • dual active bridge
  • emulator
  • partial power processing

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