Title
A novel single-phase five-level active rectifier for on-board EV battery chargers
Abstract
This paper presents a novel single-phase active rectifier for applications of on-board EV battery chargers. The proposed active rectifier, with reduced number of semiconductors, is constituted by four MOSFETs and four diodes, and can produce five distinct voltage levels, allowing to reduce the passive filters used to interface with the electrical power grid. An almost sinusoidal grid current with unitary power factor is achieved in the grid side for all the operating power range, contributing to preserve the power quality. The principle of operation, the current control strategy and the modulation technique are presented in detail. Simulation results in different conditions of operation are presented to highlight the feasibility and advantages of the proposed active rectifier.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/ISIE.2017.8001311
2017 IEEE 26th International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE)
Keywords
Field
DocType
EV Battery Charger,Five-Level Active Rectifier,Power Quality,Sinusoidal Grid Current
Rectifier,Smart grid,Metal rectifier,Power factor,AC power,Electronic engineering,Control engineering,Engineering,Precision rectifier,Battery (electricity),Electrical engineering,Constant power circuit
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2163-5137
978-1-5090-1413-2
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
9
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Vitor Monteiro16819.43
J. G. Pinto2299.90
Andrés A. Nogueiras Meléndez3126.04
João L. Afonso47817.85