Proteus/Simulink Analysis of Rectifier based E-Vehicle Charger Circuit

Abstract

In this paper, an AC to DC rectifier circuit has been discussed and the simulation results are provided. This converter is very useful for the upcoming development of the electric vehicles charging technology. For producing steady DC from a rectified AC supply requires a smoothing circuit or filter. The main purpose of the filter circuit is to remove the ripple or ac components from the output of the diode circuit. So, to make the output DC pure, the filter circuit is used. The filter circuit may be inductive (built with only inductors in series) or capacitive (built with only capacitors in parallel) or Inductive-Capacitive (built with both inductors and capacitors). A voltage regulator which is used to maintain the constant output DC voltage. Design of the controller is detailed for reference. The converter will operate in continuous conduction mode (CCM). Finally, some selected experimental results are presented to verify the proposed theory.

Keywords

• ac to dc rectifier
• electric vehicle
• ccm
• battery charging
• smoothing capacitor
• voltage regulator