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Large- and small-signal average modeling of dual active bridge dc-dc converter considering power losses

University of British Columbia

Detailed switching models are commonly used for analysis of power electronic converters, whereas the average-value modeling (AVM) provides an efficient way to study the power electronic systems in large and small signal sense. This thesis considers a dual-active-bridge (DAB) DC-DC converter, as this topology is very common in applications that require bi-directional power flow and galvanic isolation between the input (primary) and output (secondary) sides. Although this type of converter is very common, the available state-of-the-art models often relay on many assumptions and neglect the losses, which make such models inaccurate for studies where the converter efficiency and small- and large-signal responses must be predicted with high fidelity in system-level studies. We first present an improved detailed model of the DAB DC-DC converter by including the conduction loss, switching loss and core loss, which are derived based on the conventional phase shift modulation approach while considering the energy conservation principle. According to the proposed methodology, the equivalent resistances representing switching loss and core loss have been appropriately derived and added to the final simplified circuit model. The proposed approach is simple to use for modeling DAB converters when considering non-ideal circuit components. The new detailed model increases the accuracy in efficiency predictions over wide range of converter operating conditions. Furthermore, this thesis presents a new reduced-order AVM that includes the parasitic resistance and input/output filters. Based on the large-signal AVM, the small-signal model and control-to-output transfer function are also derived. The proposed AVM is compared with full-order generalized average model and the detailed model in predicting large-signal transients in time domain and small-signal analysis in frequency domain. Experimental prototype of a 150W, 24/48 VDC DAB converter has been designed and built to validate the proposed modeling methodologies. The experimental results confirm that the proposed detailed and average-value models yield high accuracy in predicting the power losses and time-domain responses, which represents an improvement over the existing state-of-the-art models.

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2015-08-10

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/54321

Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of British Columbia

UBCV

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/