A hybrid cascaded multilevel converter for battery energy management applied in electric vehicles

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 3537-3546

  Zheng, Zedong ^a   Wang, Kui ^a   Xu, Lie ^a   Li, Yongdong ^a,b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XINJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Battery cell; charging and discharging; electric vehicle (EV); hybrid cascaded multilevel converter; voltage balance

Indexed keywords

BATTERY CELLS; ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS; ENERGY UTILIZATION RATIO; HALF-BRIDGE CONVERTERS; HYBRID CASCADED MULTILEVEL CONVERTERS; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; TERMINAL VOLTAGES; VOLTAGE BALANCE;

AC GENERATOR MOTORS; ELECTRIC DRIVES; ELECTRIC VEHICLES; ENERGY UTILIZATION;

CHARGING (BATTERIES);

EID: 84897741544     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2013.2279185     Document Type: Article

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