Charge balance control schemes for cascade multilevel converter in hybrid electric vehicles

By Leon M. Tolbert, Fang Z. Peng, T. Cunnyngham, John N. Chiasson. IEEE transactions on industrial electronics (1982. Print), 2002

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Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Medium-Voltage Multilevel Converters—State of the Art, Challenges, and Requirements in Industrial Applications (2010, methodology): “This topology has also been used for active filter and reactive power compensation [20], [24], [54]– [56], electric vehicles [146], photovoltaic power conversion [139]–[141], uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs) [147], and magnetic resonance imaging [23], etc.”
Elimination of harmonics in a multilevel converter with nonequal DC sources (2005, methodology): “A battery bank of 15 SDCSs of 60 V dc (nominally) each feed the inverter configured with five SDCSs per phase [20].”
A General Review of Multilevel Inverters Based on Main Submodules: Structural Point of View (2019, background): “solid state transformers [36]–[39]), motor drives (which used in transportation/traction [40]–[47], marine propulsion [48]–[52], mine hoists [53], conveyors [54], [55]), industrial application”
The Use of Power Sums to Solve the Harmonic Elimination Equations for Multilevel Converters (2005, methodology): “One approach to solving this set of nonlinear transcendental equations (2) is to use an iterative method such as the Newton-Raphson method [18-21].”
Elimination of harmonics in a multilevel converter with nonequal DC sources (2003, methodology): “The gate driver boards and MOSFETs are shown in Fig. 7. A battery bank of 15 SDCSs of 60 V dc (nominally) each feed the inverter configured with five SDCSs per phase [ 20 ].”
A unified approach to solving the harmonic elimination equations in multilevel converters (2004, methodology): “A battery bank of 15 SDCSs each feed the inverter configured with five SDCSs per phase [15].”
PSO, an effective tool for harmonics elimination and optimization in multi-level inverters (2009, background): “However, these equations are not soluble for some operating points, associated with Modulation indices (M).”
A Single-Phase Multilevel Inverter Using Switched Series/Parallel DC Voltage Sources (2009, methodology): “Applying a multilevel inverter to EVs is proposed in [5] and [6].”
Design and Control of a Modular Multilevel DC/DC Converter for Regenerative Applications (2013, methodology): “In [21], a modular multilevel converter (MMC) is used as a traction converter in an hybrid vehicle achieving charge balance in batteries.”
A Modularized Charge Equalizer for an HEV Lithium-Ion Battery String (2009, background): “Such problems include the difficulty of implementing multiple windings in a single transformer [11]–[14], [16], the high voltage stress of rectifier diodes [15], [17], the long equalization time of the switched capacitor [4], [23]–[25], and the high complexity of controlling the bidirectional dc–dc ”
Harmonic Elimination of Cascade Multilevel Inverters with Nonequal DC Sources Using Particle Swarm Optimization (2010, background): “This can be caused by the different charging and discharging time intervals of dc-side voltage sources [ 8 ].”