Improvement of light load efficiency of dual active bridge DC-DC converter by using dual leakage transformer and variable frequency

2010 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2010 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 830-837

  Guidi, G ^a   Pavlovsky, M ^a   Kawamura, A ^a   Imakubo, T ^b   Sasaki, Y ^b  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b IHI CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

DC DC converter; Dual active bridge; Efficiency

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL POINTS; DUAL ACTIVE BRIDGES; EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT; FORCED AIR COOLING; FULLY OPERATIONAL; HIGH CURRENTS; LEAKAGE INDUCTANCE; LIGHT LOADS; LIGHT-LOAD EFFICIENCY; LOW CURRENTS; LOW LEAKAGE INDUCTANCE; PEAK EFFICIENCY; PHASE SHIFT CONTROL; POWER DENSITIES; TRANSFORMER CURRENTS; VARIABLE FREQUENCIES; VARIABLE REACTANCE; WINDING CONFIGURATION;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DC-DC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; ENERGY CONVERSION; HVDC POWER TRANSMISSION; INDUCTANCE;

DC TRANSFORMERS;

EID: 78650136897     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2010.5617909     Document Type: Conference Paper

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