Design, simulation and comparison of single phase bidirectional converters for V2G and G2V applications

Abstract

Meeting peak demand is a major challenge faced by our power sector. Electric vehicle penetration, having V2G capability can reduce the impact of this peak deficiency and can facilitate DSM. Bidirectional converters are the most important part of these V2G capable vehicles. So this paper contains the design, simulation and comparison of 2 types of single phase bidirectional converters suitable for V2G and G2V applications.Simulations are performed using Matlab -Simulink background.

Design considerations, modelling, and control of dual‐active full bridge for electric vehicles charging applications

“…The EVs importance in integration with smart grids (SGs) is that they tackle the issues of inherent intermittence and randomness in renewable energy sources by providing a power management solution [4]. Even though, in systems without renewable energy integrations, the benefit of using the vehicle battery as a temporary storage is non‐existing; still EV bidirectional chargers offer a promising solution to support the power grid during peak demand and contingencies through vehicle‐to‐grid (V2G) battery discharging operation mode [5–8]. In SGs, bidirectional EV battery charger is the key interface that controls the different power‐flow modes grid‐to‐vehicle (G2V) or/and V2G [9–12].…”