In this paper, a simple control method is presented for a single-stage single-switch isolated power-factor-correction (PFC) regulator that can simultaneously achieve unity power factor and fast output voltage regulation while keeping the voltage stress of the storage capacitor low. The converter topology comprises essentially a cascade combination of a discontinuous-mode boost converter and a c...

The power of energy storage devices is characterized by capacitance and the internal resistance. measured on an assumption that charges are stored at electrode interface electric double layer behaves like ideal capacitor. However, in most cases, not so a constant phase element (CPE) used instead capacitor to describe practical observations. Nevertheless, another problem with use CPE does give d...

This paper describes indoor photovoltaic (PV) energy harvesting and the correlation assessment of power generation storage devices for “Internet Things (IoT)” devices. To evaluate parameter optimization solar cell capacitor, relationship between output PV capacitor charging time was evaluated. The studied by changing capacity used to store produced cell. Indoor cells can generate sufficient obt...

Li ion battery (LIB) and electrochemical capacitor (EC) are considered as the most widely used energy storage systems (ESSs) because they can produce a high energy density or a high power density, but it is a huge challenge to achieve both the demands of a high energy density as well as a high power density on their own. A new hybrid Li ion capacitor (HyLIC), which combines the advantages of LI...

This paper introduces a cascaded H -bridge multilevel converter (CHB-MC) based StatCom system that is able to operate with extremely low dc capacitance values. The theoretical limit is calculated for the maximum capacitor voltage ripple, and hence minimum dc capacitance values that can be used in the converter. The proposed lowcapacitance StatCom (LC-StatCom) is able to operate with large capac...

An aqueous metal ion capacitor comprising of a zinc anode, oxidized carbon nanotubes (oCNTs) cathode, and a zinc sulfate electrolyte is reported. Since the shuttling cation is Zn2+, this typical metal ion capacitor is named as zinc-ion capacitor (ZIC). The ZIC integrates the divalent zinc stripping/plating chemistry with the surface-enabled pseudocapacitive cation adsorption/desorption on oCNTs...

In this paper, the development and optimization of Power Distribution Control Strategy (PDCS) have been performed for a Hybrid Energy Storage Systems (HESS) of a Series Hybrid Electric Bus (SHEB). A common PDCS is based on the use of Ultra-Capacitor (UC) pack. A new simple PDCS is developed as a battery based one. For the battery based PDCS, four parameters ar...

This paper is a licentiate compilation-thesis that aims to bring clarity to the dimensioning aspects and limiting factors of modular multilevel converters. The dc-capacitor in each submodule is a driving factor for the size and weight of the converter. This means that it is important to distribute the stored energy evenly among all submodule capacitors. Typically, an increased switching frequen...