This study proposes an interleaved multi-level power converter (IMPC) for a battery energy storage system. The proposed IMPC is composed of two power-electronic legs. The first power-electronic leg is an interleaved multi-level leg that contains eight power-electronic switches. Four power-electronic switches constitute a two-phase interleaved switch set and these are switched in a high-frequency interleaved pulse-width modulation. The other four power-electronic switches constitute a level-selection switch set that determines the dc bus voltage for the two-phase interleaved switch set according to the magnitude of the utility voltage. The second power-electronic leg is the low-frequency switching leg, which is composed of two power-electronic switches. Since the proposed IMPC integrates the performances of the multi-level power converter and interleaved power converter, the effective switching frequency is twice the practical switching frequency and the output voltage has five voltage levels. The ripple of the output current is significantly attenuated and the power capacity of the output filter is reduced. The proposed IMPC can also be used to adjust the real and the reactive power flows, in order to control the charging/ discharging of battery sets and to compensate for the reactive power. A hardware prototype is developed to verify the performance of the proposed IMPC.
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