Small-Signal Transfer Functions of the Classical Boost Converter Supplied by Ultracapacitor Banks

Ultracapacitor is an emerging device for energy storage that can replace batteries in some short-term applications. Due to the fact that the terminal voltage of an ultracapacitor varies with the level of energy stored, a power electronic converter with voltage boosting capability is usually needed a...

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Main Author: Rajakaruna, Sumedha
Other Authors: Not advised
Format: Conference Paper
Published: Harbin 2007
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/18553
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description Ultracapacitor is an emerging device for energy storage that can replace batteries in some short-term applications. Due to the fact that the terminal voltage of an ultracapacitor varies with the level of energy stored, a power electronic converter with voltage boosting capability is usually needed at its terminals to interface with a load operating at a constant voltage. For the case of a classical boost dc-dc converter supplying a resistive load by drawing energy from a bank of ultracapacitors, the paper derives small-signal transfer functions by considering a time-varying steady-state. To reduce the complexity of resulting exact expressions of poles, highly accurate approximate expressions are also derived. Furthermore, it compares how the control characteristics change when a constant voltage source such as a battery replaces the ultracapacitor bank. A numerical example is presented to demonstrate the accuracy of the approximate values of poles and zeros and to describe how the poles and zeros vary with the duty ratio.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-185532017-09-13T15:59:41Z Small-Signal Transfer Functions of the Classical Boost Converter Supplied by Ultracapacitor Banks Rajakaruna, Sumedha Not advised Ultracapacitor is an emerging device for energy storage that can replace batteries in some short-term applications. Due to the fact that the terminal voltage of an ultracapacitor varies with the level of energy stored, a power electronic converter with voltage boosting capability is usually needed at its terminals to interface with a load operating at a constant voltage. For the case of a classical boost dc-dc converter supplying a resistive load by drawing energy from a bank of ultracapacitors, the paper derives small-signal transfer functions by considering a time-varying steady-state. To reduce the complexity of resulting exact expressions of poles, highly accurate approximate expressions are also derived. Furthermore, it compares how the control characteristics change when a constant voltage source such as a battery replaces the ultracapacitor bank. A numerical example is presented to demonstrate the accuracy of the approximate values of poles and zeros and to describe how the poles and zeros vary with the duty ratio. 2007 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/18553 10.1109/ICIEA.2007.4318495 Harbin fulltext
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Small-Signal Transfer Functions of the Classical Boost Converter Supplied by Ultracapacitor Banks
title Small-Signal Transfer Functions of the Classical Boost Converter Supplied by Ultracapacitor Banks
title_full Small-Signal Transfer Functions of the Classical Boost Converter Supplied by Ultracapacitor Banks
title_fullStr Small-Signal Transfer Functions of the Classical Boost Converter Supplied by Ultracapacitor Banks
title_full_unstemmed Small-Signal Transfer Functions of the Classical Boost Converter Supplied by Ultracapacitor Banks
title_short Small-Signal Transfer Functions of the Classical Boost Converter Supplied by Ultracapacitor Banks
title_sort small-signal transfer functions of the classical boost converter supplied by ultracapacitor banks
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/18553