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A High Efficiency Isolated Bidirectional Reduced-Switch DC-DC Converter for Electric Vehicle Applications

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Recent Advances in Power Electronics and Drives

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In this paper, a new topology for an isolated DC-DC converter that can be used for electric vehicle applications is presented in a dual bridge structure, having just one switch, two capacitors, and an inductor each in the front-end and back-end H-bridges, along with a high-frequency transformer (HFT) for isolation of the bridges. Simulations were done in MATLAB/Simulink to verify the structure and working of the converter. The converter showed very high efficiency of more than 98% in isolation mode, buck mode, and boost mode operations, with very low voltage and current ripple values of less than 5%. Finally, a comparison study with a recent similar half bridge converter topology is also done to discuss the benefits of the proposed topology.

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This work is part of SRMIST Selective Excellence Research Initiative-2021: ‘DCFCEVB’.

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  1. Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Chennai, 603203, India

    Arya Venugopal & Femi Robert

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Venugopal, A., Robert, F. (2023). A High Efficiency Isolated Bidirectional Reduced-Switch DC-DC Converter for Electric Vehicle Applications. In: Kumar, S., Singh, B., Sood, V.K. (eds) Recent Advances in Power Electronics and Drives. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 973. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7728-2_5

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