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A Hybrid Modulation Featuring Two-Phase Clamped Discontinuous PWM and Zero Voltage Switching for 99% Efficient DC-Type EV Charger

Journal

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY
Volume 71, Issue 2, Pages 1454-1465

Publisher

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2021.3133647

Keywords

Pulse width modulation; Voltage control; Modulation; Switching loss; Zero voltage switching; Capacitors; Switches; Electric vehicle (EV); two-stage AC-DC converter; discontinuous pulse width modulation (DPWM); zero voltage switching (ZVS)

Funding

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [51577118]

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This paper proposes a new hybrid modulation method to address the high switching losses and large volume issues of two-stage AC-DC converters in DC-type EV chargers. By using a two-phase clamped discontinuous pulse-width-modulation (DPWM) in the front-end circuit, and cooperating it with the variable frequency triangular-current-mode (TCM) zero voltage switching (ZVS) or boundary-ZVS (B-ZVS) strategy in the back-end circuit, the system can reduce switching losses to the best extent and improve power density.
Two-stage AC-DC converters are considered as a prominent solution for DC-type electric vehicle (EV) chargers. However, this kind of architecture suffers from high switching losses with large heatsink and DC-link capacitor volume. To relieve this issue, this paper presents a new hybrid modulation for DC-type EV chargers, where a two-phase clamped discontinuous pulse-width-modulation (DPWM) in the front-end circuit is cooperated with the variable frequency triangular-current-mode (TCM) zero voltage switching (ZVS) or its simplified implementation, i.e., boundary-ZVS (B-ZVS) strategy, in the back-end circuit. The former can stop the switching actions in the front-end stage during two-thirds of the grid period, while the AC currents are at their highest values, which can yield to the best switching loss reduction and deliver high power factor operation. Besides, TCM-ZVS or B-ZVS modulations can achieve ZVS turn-on action for all semiconductors during all operating range in the DC-DC stage to further reduce the power losses on the semiconductors. With such characteristics, the proposed strategies can reduce the switching losses of the system to the best extent, and thus allow an enhancement of the system power density by improving the power conversion efficiency. The proposed strategy is described, analyzed, validated, and benchmarked in a 5 kW SMD SiC MOSFET-based two-stage AC-DC converter. A 99% power efficiency can be achieved with the solution implementing the TCM-ZVS strategy at an output voltage of 400 V and rated power.

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