New Battery Balancing Circuit using Magnetic Flux Sharing

Sung-Geun Song; Seong-Mi Park; Sung-Jun Park

New Battery Balancing Circuit using Magnetic Flux Sharing

Sung-Geun Song

Seong-Mi Park

Sung-Jun Park

Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 194-201, Jan. 2014

10.6113/JPE.2014.14.1.194

Battery balancing

Battery Management System

DC/DC converter

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Abstract

To increase the capacity of secondary cells, an appropriate serial composition of the battery modules is essential. The unbalance that may occur due to the series connection in such a serial composition is the main cause for declines in the efficiency and performance of batteries. Various studies have been conducted on the use of a passive or active topology to eliminate the unbalance from the series circuit of battery modules. Most topologies consist of a complex structure in which the Battery Management System (BMS) detects the voltage of each module and establishes the voltage balancing in the independent electrical power converters installed on each module by comparing the module voltage. This study proposes a new magnetic flux sharing type DC/DC converter topology in order to remove voltage unbalances from batteries. The proposed topology is characterized by a design in which all of the DC/DC convertor outputs connected to the modules converge into a single transformer. In this structure, by taking a form in which all of the battery balancing type converters share magnetic flux through a single harmonic wave transformer, all of the converter voltages automatically converge to the same voltage. This paper attempts to analyze the dynamic properties of the proposed circuit by using a Programmable Synthesizer Interface Module (PSIM), which is useful for power electronics analysis, while also attempting to demonstrate the validity of the proposed circuit through experimental results.

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[IEEE Style]

S. Song, S. Park, S. Park, "New Battery Balancing Circuit using Magnetic Flux Sharing," Journal of Power Electronics, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 194-201, 2014. DOI: 10.6113/JPE.2014.14.1.194.

[ACM Style]

Sung-Geun Song, Seong-Mi Park, and Sung-Jun Park. 2014. New Battery Balancing Circuit using Magnetic Flux Sharing. Journal of Power Electronics, 14, 1, (2014), 194-201. DOI: 10.6113/JPE.2014.14.1.194.