TY - GEN
T1 - Bidirectional DC-DC Converter to Interlink Bipolar DC Microgrids based on the Ćuk DC-DC Converter
AU - Cordeiro, Armando
AU - Chaves, Miguel
AU - Gamboa, Paulo
AU - Luis, Ricardo
AU - Fonte, Pedro
AU - Pires, V. Fernao
AU - Foito, Daniel
AU - Martins, Joao F.
AU - Fernando Silva, J.
N1 - info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UIDB%2F50021%2F2020/PT#
Funding Information:
This work was supported by Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, reference code: IPL/2023/BiCONVERT_ISEL.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 IEEE.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - The emergence of the environmental crisis and the need to use alternative power sources to reverse this global problem has led to the wide utilization of solar PV system as one of the main renewable power sources. Due to the nature of this power sources, and the requirements of high integration levels of different energy storage systems such as supercapacitors, batteries, and connected DC loads, DC microgrids have been gaining more and more importance over the last years. In this sense, this paper presents a new bidirectional DC-DC power converter designed to interlink two different bipolar DC microgrids. The proposed converter allows bidirectional power flow with support of voltage balance between bipolar DC microgrids, working as ancillary system. The DC-DC converter was also designed to provide an input-output high-voltage gain ratio in buck or boost mode, allowing to connect DC microgrids with different voltages. Some simulation and experimental results of the proposed bidirectional DC-DC converter and control strategy adopted are presented and discussed.
AB - The emergence of the environmental crisis and the need to use alternative power sources to reverse this global problem has led to the wide utilization of solar PV system as one of the main renewable power sources. Due to the nature of this power sources, and the requirements of high integration levels of different energy storage systems such as supercapacitors, batteries, and connected DC loads, DC microgrids have been gaining more and more importance over the last years. In this sense, this paper presents a new bidirectional DC-DC power converter designed to interlink two different bipolar DC microgrids. The proposed converter allows bidirectional power flow with support of voltage balance between bipolar DC microgrids, working as ancillary system. The DC-DC converter was also designed to provide an input-output high-voltage gain ratio in buck or boost mode, allowing to connect DC microgrids with different voltages. Some simulation and experimental results of the proposed bidirectional DC-DC converter and control strategy adopted are presented and discussed.
KW - Bidirectional power flow
KW - Bipolar DC Microgrids
KW - DC-DC converter
KW - Step-Up/Down voltage ratio
KW - Ćuk converter
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85199470890&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/icSmartGrid61824.2024.10578191
DO - 10.1109/icSmartGrid61824.2024.10578191
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85199470890
T3 - 12th International Conference on Smart Grid, icSmartGrid 2024
SP - 72
EP - 77
BT - 12th International Conference on Smart Grid, icSmartGrid 2024
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
T2 - 12th International Conference on Smart Grid, icSmartGrid 2024
Y2 - 27 May 2024 through 29 May 2024
ER -
