Improved Battery Charger Circuit Utilizing Reduced DC-link Capacitors

The article presents a comparison of advantages and disadvantages of a battery charger circuit with and without the use of DC-link capacitors in it. The specific application requirements, namely ultra-light electric vehicles, are set as lightness, efficiency and robustness of the design. Prove of gr...

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Main Authors: Vencislav Valchev, Plamen Yankov, Orlin Stanchev
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: UIKTEN 2017-11-01
Series:TEM Journal
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Online Access:http://www.temjournal.com/content/64/TemJournalNovember2017_732_737.pdf
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spelling doaj-507dba5e1d7c4a4cae101ee93a462bfa2020-11-24T22:09:49ZengUIKTENTEM Journal2217-83092217-83332017-11-016473273710.18421/TEM64-12Improved Battery Charger Circuit Utilizing Reduced DC-link CapacitorsVencislav ValchevPlamen YankovOrlin StanchevThe article presents a comparison of advantages and disadvantages of a battery charger circuit with and without the use of DC-link capacitors in it. The specific application requirements, namely ultra-light electric vehicles, are set as lightness, efficiency and robustness of the design. Prove of greater reliability and improvement on maintenance costs without significant decrease in the quality of charging process with the removal of DC-link capacitors in rectifier and boost converter circuits is accomplished. The proposed circuit parameters are analyzed by carried out simulations.http://www.temjournal.com/content/64/TemJournalNovember2017_732_737.pdfBattery chargerElectric vehiclesSimulation
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author Vencislav Valchev
Plamen Yankov
Orlin Stanchev
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Plamen Yankov
Orlin Stanchev
Improved Battery Charger Circuit Utilizing Reduced DC-link Capacitors
TEM Journal
Battery charger
Electric vehicles
Simulation
author_facet Vencislav Valchev
Plamen Yankov
Orlin Stanchev
author_sort Vencislav Valchev
title Improved Battery Charger Circuit Utilizing Reduced DC-link Capacitors
title_short Improved Battery Charger Circuit Utilizing Reduced DC-link Capacitors
title_full Improved Battery Charger Circuit Utilizing Reduced DC-link Capacitors
title_fullStr Improved Battery Charger Circuit Utilizing Reduced DC-link Capacitors
title_full_unstemmed Improved Battery Charger Circuit Utilizing Reduced DC-link Capacitors
title_sort improved battery charger circuit utilizing reduced dc-link capacitors
publisher UIKTEN
series TEM Journal
issn 2217-8309
2217-8333
publishDate 2017-11-01
description The article presents a comparison of advantages and disadvantages of a battery charger circuit with and without the use of DC-link capacitors in it. The specific application requirements, namely ultra-light electric vehicles, are set as lightness, efficiency and robustness of the design. Prove of greater reliability and improvement on maintenance costs without significant decrease in the quality of charging process with the removal of DC-link capacitors in rectifier and boost converter circuits is accomplished. The proposed circuit parameters are analyzed by carried out simulations.
topic Battery charger
Electric vehicles
Simulation
url http://www.temjournal.com/content/64/TemJournalNovember2017_732_737.pdf
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