Energy storage management control based on supercapacitors using a modular multilevel inverter topology for electrical vehicles

Author

Ciccarelli, F. ; Clemente, G. ; Iannuzzi, Diego

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Inf. Technol., Univ. Federico II of Naples, Naples, Italy

fYear

2013

fDate

11-13 June 2013

Firstpage

170

Lastpage

176

Abstract

The paper suggests a power traction converter for battery electrical vehicles (BEV) based on a modular multilevel topology integrated with supercapacitor energy storage system (ESS). The relevant contribution is given by the integration of a control method for mitigating the ac voltage fluctuation at low speed operation, with an energy management control strategy. Some numerical simulations referring to a 400 V, 37 kW traction drive is presented in order to verify the effectiveness of the proposed controls.

Keywords

battery powered vehicles; fluctuations; invertors; network topology; numerical analysis; power control; supercapacitors; traction motor drives; voltage control; AC voltage fluctuation; BEV; ESS; battery electrical vehicles; modular multilevel inverter topology; numerical simulations; power traction converter; supercapacitors-based energy storage management control; traction drive; Batteries; Electric vehicles; Supercapacitors; Traction motors; Voltage control; Electrical vehicle; Energy Storage; Modular Multilevel Converter;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Clean Electrical Power (ICCEP), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Alghero

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4429-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCEP.2013.6586985

Filename

6586985