Design of a Dynamic Hybrid Compensator for Current Sharing Control of Parallel Phase-Shifted Full-Bridge Converter

Baihui Gong, Kan Liu (), Haozhe Luan (), Jiaming Wu, Jing Zhou, Shilin Tan, Chao Huang and Huajiang Wu
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Baihui Gong: College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410000, China
Kan Liu: College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410000, China
Haozhe Luan: College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410000, China
Jiaming Wu: College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410000, China
Jing Zhou: College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410000, China
Shilin Tan: College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410000, China
Chao Huang: College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410000, China
Huajiang Wu: Ningbo Anson CNC Technique Co., Ltd., Ningbo 315000, China

Energies, 2023, vol. 16, issue 5, 1-22

Abstract: The phase-shifted full-bridge (PSFB) converter has been widely used in power supply modules due to its simple control and high output power. However, with the market’s increasing demand for higher power sources, the PSFB converter needs to face challenges in increasing its output power level. Compared to redesigning a larger power module or a larger single converter, it will be more cost-effective to achieve a higher power output by paralleling the existing converters. However, due to the manufacturing differences in circuit components, the output imbalance in parallel PSFB converter systems may damage the power modules. Thus, the influence of differences in circuit components is analyzed in this paper, and it is found that the leakage inductance and transformer ratio are the main factors resulting in errors in current sharing control. Consequently, a dynamic hybrid compensator (DHC) is proposed in this paper, that can significantly reduce the error in current sharing control via the compensation of the duty cycle of a slave module. Furthermore, the DHC is verified on an 800 W two-phase PSFB converter, which shows that even when the difference in components is as large as 20%, the proposed method can still reduce the error in current sharing control to less than 2% under both half and full load conditions.

Keywords: current sharing control; parallel PSFB; dynamic hybrid compensator (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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