Research on new electric vehicle AC charging pile technology based on active filter function

Abstract

The AC charging pile is the main energy supply facility for household electric vehicles, which uses a vehicle mounted charger to charge the power battery. The current standard of the State Grid Corporation of China clearly stipulates the function of the AC charging pile and does not take into account the impact of the harmonics of the vehicle mounted charger on the power grid. Therefore, in view of the deficiency that AC charging piles cannot suppress the current harmonics of the vehicle mounted charger, application of the active power filtering technology to the design of AC charging piles is proposed to form a new type of AC charging pile with better functions. In the experimental prototype that was built, for vehicle mounted chargers with two load characteristics, the composite control method of traditional PI control and repetitive control is adopted, where the new AC charging pile effectively suppresses the harmonics of the vehicle-mounted charger. Experiments show that the AC charging pile using active power filtering technology cannot only improve the power quality of the grid side but also reduce the impact of harmonics on the power metering and billing system, ensuring the stability of the charging communication system.