A Bidirectional Cell-to-Buffer Battery Equalizer at Boundary Conduction Mode with Constant On-Time Control

Conventioanl adjacent Cell-to-cell battery equalizer is flawed with long energy-flow-path between remote battery cells, which incurs low balancing speed and low energy efficiency. To cope with this issue, this paper proposes a novel Cell-to-Buffer (C2B) battery equalizer. The structure consists of a...

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Published in2021 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE) pp. 1405 - 1412
Main Authors Lu, Yiqing, Wei, Zhengqi, Wang, Haoyu
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 10.10.2021
Subjects
Batteries
battery equalizer
boundary conduction mode
constant on-time control
Energy exchange
Equalizers
MOSFET
multiplexer network
Multiplexing
Pulse width modulation
zero current detection
Zero voltage switching
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Summary:Conventioanl adjacent Cell-to-cell battery equalizer is flawed with long energy-flow-path between remote battery cells, which incurs low balancing speed and low energy efficiency. To cope with this issue, this paper proposes a novel Cell-to-Buffer (C2B) battery equalizer. The structure consists of a multplexer network and a bidirectional buck-boost equalizer unit. The multiplexer network selects in the battery cell to link the equalizer unit. The equalizer unit transfers the energy between cell and buffer to achieve targeted equalization. An auxiliary battery cell serves as a buffer to reduce the voltage ratio equalizer unit, which helps to simplify the equalizer unit design. In the equalizer unit, boundary conduction mode (BCM) is achieved with zero current detection (ZCD) and constant on-time control. BCM operation facilitates the zero-voltage-switching (ZVS) of MOSFETs. Instead of absolute equalization, a preset voltage tolerance range is defined to improve the balancing speed. An experimental platform to equalize between battery cell and buffer is built and tested. The function of ZCD is validated. Battery cell voltage is equalized within a preset voltage range via buffer.
ISSN:2329-3748
DOI:10.1109/ECCE47101.2021.9595030