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Improved Battery Charger Circuit Utilizing Reduced DC-link Capacitors
Improved Battery Charger Circuit Utilizing Reduced DC-link Capacitors

Author(s): Vencislav Valchev, Plamen Yankov, Orlin Stanchev
Subject(s): ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: UIKTEN - Association for Information Communication Technology Education and Science
Keywords: Battery charger;Electric vehicles;Simulation

Summary/Abstract: 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.

  • Issue Year: 6/2017
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 732-737
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: English
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