Author(s)

Kuppan Senthil^1*, Dr. Daniel Mary²

¹Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Adhiyamaan College of Engineering, Hosur, India.
²Department of Electrical Engineering, Government College of Technology, Coimbatore, India.

The interests on energy storage schemes, bidirectional dc-dc converter and uninterruptible power supplies have been increasing nowadays as there wide researches are undertaken in the area of electric vehicles. A modified bi directional class-E resonant dc-dc converter is introduced here in this proposed topology for the application in electric vehicles. The advantages of soft switching techniques have been utilized for making analysis simple. The main advantage here in this system is that it can operate in a wide range of frequencies with minimal switching loss in transistors. This paper elaborates a detailed analysis on converter design and the same has been simulated and verified in Matlab/Simulink.

Bidirectional DC-DC, Fuel Cell, Electric Vehicle, Resonant Converter

Senthil, K. and Mary, D. (2016) A Resonant Dual Full-Bridge Class-E Bidirectional DC-DC Converter for Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle. Circuits and Systems, 7, 3392-3402. doi: 10.4236/cs.2016.710289.