Evaluation of lithium-ion synergetic battery pack as battery charger

Author

Davis, Amanda ; Salameh, Ziyad M. ; Eaves, Stephen S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Massachusetts Univ., Lowell, MA, USA

Volume

14

Issue

3

fYear

1999

fDate

9/1/1999 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

830

Lastpage

835

Abstract

A new battery configuration technique and accompanying control circuitry, termed a synergetic battery pack (SBP), is designed to work with lithium batteries, and can be used as both an inverter for an electric vehicle AC induction motor drive and a battery charger. In this paper, the authors compare the performance of the synergetic battery pack as a battery charger with several simple conventional battery charging circuits via computer simulation. The factors of comparison were power factor, harmonic distortion and circuit efficiency. The simulations showed that the SBP is superior to conventional charging circuits since the power factor is unity and harmonic distortion is negligible

Keywords

DC-AC power convertors; battery chargers; electric vehicles; harmonic distortion; invertors; lithium; power conversion harmonics; power factor correction; secondary cells; Li; Li-ion synergetic battery pack; battery charger; battery configuration technique; circuit efficiency; control circuitry; electric vehicle AC induction motor drive; harmonic distortion; inverter; power factor; Batteries; Circuits; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Electric vehicles; Harmonic distortion; Induction motor drives; Inverters; Lithium; Reactive power;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Energy Conversion, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8969

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/60.790961

Filename

790961