Ph.D. Dissertation Defense: Haoyu Wang

Tuesday, July 22, 2014
10:30 a.m.
1146 AVW Bldg
Maria Hoo
301 405 3681
mch@umd.edu

ANNOUNCEMENT: Ph.D. Dissertation Defense
 
Name: Haoyu Wang
 
Committee:
Professor Alireza Khaligh, Chair/Advisor
Professor Robert Newcomb
Professor Neil Goldsman
Professor Isaak Mayergoyz
Professor Patrick McCluskey, Dean’s representative
 
Date/Time: Tuesday, July 22, 2014 at 10:30 am
 
Location: 1146 AVW Bldg.
 
Title: Ultra-compact and highly efficient SiC onboard chargers for plug-in electric vehicles

Abstract:
 
Grid-enabled plug-in electrified vehicles (PEVs) are deemed as the most sustainable solution, to profoundly reduce both oil consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. One of the most important realities, which will facilitate the adoption of PEVs is the method by which these vehicles will be charged. This dissertation focuses on the research of compact, reliable, and highly efficient onboard charging solutions for next generation PEVs.
 
This dissertation designed a two-stage onboard battery charger to charge a 360 V lithium-ion battery pack. An interleaved boost topology is employed in the first stage for power factor correction (PFC) and to reduce total harmonic distortion (THD). In the second stage, a full bridge inductor-inductor-capacitor (LLC) multi-resonant converter is adopted for galvanic isolation and dc/dc conversion. Design considerations focusing on reducing the charger volume, and optimizing the conversion efficiency over the wide battery pack voltage range are investigated. The designed 1 kW Silicon based charger prototype is able to charge the battery with an output voltage range of 320 V to 420 V from 110 V, 60 Hz single phase grid. Unity power factor, low THD, and high peak conversion efficiency have been demonstrated experimentally.
 
This dissertation proposed a new technique is to track the maximum efficiency point of LLC converter over a wide battery state-of-charge range. With the proposed variable dc link control approach, dc link voltage follows the battery pack voltage. The operating point of the LLC converter is always constrained to the proximity of the primary resonant frequency, so that the circulating losses and the turning off losses are minimized. Proposed variable dc link voltage methodology, demonstrates efficiency improvement across the wide state-of-charge range. An efficiency improvement of 2.1% at the heaviest load condition and 9.1% at the lightest load condition are demonstrated experimentally.
 
This dissertation proposed a novel PEV charger based on single-ended primary-inductor converter (SPEIC) and the maximum efficiency point tracking technique of LLC converter. The proposed charger architecture demonstrates attracting features such as (1) compatible with universal grid inputs; (2) able to charge the fully depleted battery pack; (3) pulse width modulation and simplified control algorithm; and (4) the advantages of Silicon Carbide MOSFETs can be fully manifested. A 3.3 kW all Silicon Carbide based PEV charger prototype was designed to validate the proposed idea.
 
 

Audience: Graduate  Faculty 

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