Optimal operating ranges of three modulation methods in dual active bridge converters

The dual active bridge (DAB) converter attracts more and more attentions thanks to its advantages over the other isolated dc-dc converters, such as soft-switching, immunity to parasitic inductance, less circuit components and less component stress. Rectangular (also named as phase-shifted) modulation method on DAB has been widely studied and but other two proposed modulations (trapezoidal and triangular methods) have much less applications. Due to the characteristics of the modulation principles, one of these three methods outperforms the other two in certain operating ranges from system efficiency point of view. This paper summarizes the properties of three modulation methods and optimizes the combined use of three modulations on a DAB converter (12V/360V, 1 kW and 25 kHz) in order to obtain the best system efficiencies over full converter operating range. A validated loss model is utilized as the analyzing platform, based on which the optimal operating ranges of three modulations are determined.

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