The growing interest in the development of electric vehicle charging system based on expanding green car market is to meet the system demand for high efficiency and high density output characteristics. In addition, according to increase the in-production of electric vehicle, it is going to increase developing plan for on board charging system in around the world. In this paper, the charge contr...

A step-up bridgeless single phase ac-dc power factor correction (PFC) rectifier based on Cuk topology is proposed for high voltage battery charger application. The proposed topology consists of common input stage and parallel output stages. It utilizes one control signal over the whole line cycle. In addition, the proposed converter exhibits low inrush current and low magnetic emissions as clas...

A new wide voltage operation range isolated battery charger, which is composed of an asymmetric T-type AC–DC power rectifier and a modified re-configurable half bridge DC–DC converter, proposed in this paper. The adopts different modulation strategies under AC bus amplitudes voltages for increasing conversion efficiency. As the stage, converter applies three-winding transformer to achieve outpu...

In this work, the design and analysis of new Level Shifter with Gate Driver for Li-Ion battery charger is proposed for high speed and low area in 180nm CMOS technology. The new proposed level shifter is used to raise the voltage level and significantly reduces transfer delay 1.3ns (transfer delay of conventional level shifter) to 0.15ns with the same input signal. Also, the level shifter with g...

Photovoltaic power generation system implements an effective utilization of solar energy, but generally has very low conversion efficiency. Maximum power point tracking (MPPT) is used in photovoltaic (PV) systems to maximize the photovoltaic array output power, irrespective of the temperature and irradiation conditions and of the load electrical characteristics. A MPPT system has been developed...

Stand-alone power systems based on renewable energy sources are used to replace generators based on fossil fuels. Those renewable power systems also require Energy Storage Devices (ESD) interfaced by a charger/discharger power converter, which consist of a bidirectional DC/DC converter, and a DC bus. This paper proposes a single sliding-mode controller (SMC) for the charger/discharger DC/DC con...

Traditional sensor nodes are usually battery powered, and the limited battery power constrains the overall lifespan of the sensors. Recently, wireless power transmission technology has been applied in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) to transmit wireless power from the chargers to the sensor nodes and solve the limited battery power problem. The combination of wireless sensors and wireless charg...

In this paper is presented the development of a smart batteries charger for Electric Vehicles (EVs) and Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs), aiming their integration in Smart Grids. The batteries charging process is controlled by an appropriate control algorithm, aiming to preserve the batteries lifespan. The main features of the equipment are the mitigation of the power quality degradatio...

This paper presents a customized wireless power management microsystem for endoscopic capsule robot. The microsystem is composed of a rectifier, a regulator, a battery charger and A low Dropout (LDO) regulator. The electromagnetic energy signal received from a self-resonant coil is rectified and then regulated to generate a stable DC voltage for charging the Li-ion battery. Stable DC voltage is...

Grid energy storage system for PV Applications is connected with three different power sources i.e. PV Array, Battery and the Grid. It is advisable to have Isolation between these three different sources to provide safety for the equipment. The configuration proposed in this paper provides the complete isolation between the three sources. A Power Balancing Control (PBC) for this configuration i...