High Voltage Gain Bidirectional DC-DC Converters for Supercapacitor Assisted Electric Vehicles: A Review

Publisher:
China Power Supply Society
Publication Type:
Journal Article
Citation:
CPSS Transactions on Power Electronics and Applications, 2022, 7, (4), pp. 386-398
Issue Date:
2022-12
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Integration of supercapacitor alongwith battery in electric vehicles (EVs) improves the life cycle of the battery. Additionally, supercapacitor supplies or absorbs a large amount of instantaneous power during sudden demand such as acceleration or regenerative braking operation, hence also improve the dynamics of the internal power system. However, a major challenge with supercapacitor is that its terminal voltage is low and varies in a wide range during charging and discharging operation. Thus, a high voltage conversion ratio based bidirectional DC-DC converters are required to connect the lower supercapacitor voltage to higher DC-link voltage. The steep voltage conversion ratio with continuous gain based bidirectional DC-DC converters are an integral part of such applications. Various high gain converters exist in the literature such as isolated, non-isolated, cascaded, switched, flying capacitor, and coupled inductor based DC-DC converters, however all these converters have some limitations in context to high gain/high power applications. Therefore, to understand the development of next-generation high voltage gain bidirectional DC-DC converter, this paper focus to comprehensively review and classify various bidirectional step-up DC-DC converters based on their characteristics and voltage-boosting techniques. Further, practical suitability of the reviewed converters and future research directions in switched capacitor converters in context to EVs are also discussed in detail.
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