Experimental study of a bidirectional DC-DC converter for the DC link voltage control and the regenerative braking in PM motor drives devoted to electrical vehicles

Author

Caricchi, F. ; Crescimbini, F. ; Noia, G. ; Pirolo, D.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Rome Univ., Italy

fYear

1994

fDate

13-17 Feb 1994

Firstpage

381

Abstract

The use of a bidirectional DC-DC converter operating in the DC link of CRPWM-inverter-fed motor drives devoted to electric vehicles (EVs) application allows a suitable control of both motoring and regenerative braking operations, and it can contribute to a significant increase of the motor drive overall efficiency. This paper deals with the experimental study of a bidirectional DC-DC converter prototype which has been designed for application in small-size EVs propelled by axial-flux PM motor drives. The paper discusses the converter modes of operation and reports the experimental results taken from a converter prototype which has been constructed using an IGBTs power module rated 600 V, 50 A

Keywords

electric drives; electric motors; electric propulsion; electric vehicles; insulated gate bipolar transistors; invertors; permanent magnet motors; power convertors; pulse width modulation; regenerative braking; road vehicles; voltage control; 50 A; 600 V; CRPWM-inverter-fed motor drives; DC link voltage control; IGBT; PM motor drives; axial-flux; bi-directional DC-DC converter; converter operation modes; efficiency; electrical vehicles; motoring; regenerative braking; AC motors; Battery powered vehicles; DC-DC power converters; Electric vehicles; Inverters; Motor drives; Propulsion; Prototypes; Vehicle driving; Voltage control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, 1994. APEC '94. Conference Proceedings 1994., Ninth Annual

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1456-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APEC.1994.316373

Filename

316373