Abstract
The partial power processing (PPP) concept has been extensively employed in many two-port converters to achieve high efficiency and high power density by modifying one of the original converter ports to be connected in series between input and output. This is attractive but is confined to two-port applications, and how to extend it to multiport applications is not clear. Hence, this paper aims to explore a generalized PPP multiport scheme by arranging the connection of the module rather than the converter. For a PPP single-input(output)-N-outputs(inputs) converter, one terminal of all N+1 modules is connected together to construct a radial structure, and another terminal is series/parallel connected with the input/output port. Each module only needs to process partial power caused by the voltage or current difference between input and output. Therefore, the required power rating of components is effectively reduced, contributing to low cost as well as low power loss. In this paper, a PPP single-input dual-output converter with active bridge modules is also taken as an example to be introduced in detail, designed and experimented upon, which validates that high efficiency and high power density can be achieved.
| Original language | English |
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| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics |
| Early online date | 7 Jun 2022 |
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| Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 7 Jun 2022 |
Bibliographical note
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- active bridge
- Bridge circuits
- Costs
- DC-DC power converters
- Density measurement
- multiport DC-DC
- Partial power processing
- Power system measurements
- radial module connection
- Stress
- Voltage