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A bidirectional high-frequency isolated ac–dc converter for utility direct interfaced electric vehicle charger with vehicle-to-grid (V2G) capability is presented in this paper. This type of charger can achieve the direct utility interface with medium voltage input. It is composed of multilevel cascaded H-bridge ac–dc converter as the first stage and modular current-fed dual active bridge dc–dc converters as the second stage. For the cascaded H-bridge converter, a unified control to balance the cascaded H-bridge dc voltages is proposed for both charging and discharging modes. For the second dc–dc isolation stage, the current-fed dual active bridge converter is used in facing of the wide conversion gain in battery charging application and also to reduce the charging current ripple. Meanwhile, to improve the system flexibility and reliability, decentralized control is utilized for individual current-fed dual active bridge converters in view of the battery charging profile. The proposed method along with the presented topology can achieve voltage balance in spite of the power flow direction, simplification of the controller for the dc–dc modules and can also bear unbalanced power flow. The simulation and experimental results have been presented to show the effectiveness of the proposed control. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In this paper, a novel current fed hybrid dual active bridge dc–dc converter is proposed, which is suitable for a low-voltage fuel cell power conditioning system. The high-frequency input current ripple can be reduced to minimum because the input side switches are always switched at 50% duty cycles in spite of the fuel cell voltage and the load variation. Notch filter is used in the voltage feedback path to reduce the low-frequency input current ripple when interfaced with a single-phase inverter load. All of the power devices can achieve zero voltage switching by the proposed control strategy. The mode analysis, the operation principle, zero-voltage switching (ZVS) conditions, and parameter design are given in this paper. A 1 kW prototype has been fabricated to verify the effectiveness of the proposed converter and control strategy. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]