Iterative Design of a 60 kW All-Si Modular LLC Converter for Electric Vehicle Ultra-Fast Charging

This paper proposes an iterative design procedure for a high-power LLC resonant converter, taking part in a 60 kW modular DC/DC conversion stage for an electric vehicle (EV) ultra-fast battery charger. The basics of operation of the LLC converter are briefly recalled and the most relevant analytical expressions are reported. Due to the high-power requirement and the wide output battery voltage range (i.e. 250-1000 V), a modular design approach is adopted, leveraging the split input DC-link structure provided by a 3-level active front-end. A total of four modules, with at 15 kW nominal power and a 250-500 V output voltage regulation capability, are designed with a straightforward iterative procedure based on the first-harmonic approximation (FHA). Finally, the proposed methodology is verified experimentally on a 15 kW LLC converter prototype directly resulting from the design procedure.

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