A laboratory model of a dual active bridge DC-DC converter for a smart user network

Author

Burgio, A. ; Menniti, D. ; Motta, M. ; Pinnarelli, A. ; Sorrentino, N. ; Vizza, P.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende, Italy

fYear

2015

fDate

10-13 June 2015

Firstpage

997

Lastpage

1002

Abstract

The paper presents an application of a dual active bridge DC-DC converter for a smart user network that is a microgrid with a DC-powered local network (or DC bus). In such a microgrid the DC-DC converter connects a battery energy storage system to the DC bus. In a previous paper, the authors demonstrated that the DC-DC converter is able to assure a stable DC bus voltage to a reference value; performance was evaluated by means of numerical experiment using Simplorer. In this paper the DC-DC converter is further investigated using a 400W laboratory model of a smart user network; the laboratory results demonstrate that the converter provides a high level of reliability and resilience against disturbances.

Keywords

DC-DC power convertors; distributed power generation; secondary cells; DC-powered local network; Simplorer; battery energy storage system; dual active bridge DC-DC converter; laboratory model; microgrid; power 400 W; reference value; smart user network; stable DC bus voltage; Batteries; Bridge circuits; DC-DC power converters; Microcontrollers; Sun; Voltage control; Voltage measurement; DAB; DC-DC; bidirectional converters; dual active bridge; microgrid; phase-shift control; smartgrid;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC), 2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Rome

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-7992-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EEEIC.2015.7165300

Filename

7165300