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Optimal Design and Application of High-Performance Power Converters: 2nd Edition

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "F3: Power Electronics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 29 June 2025 | Viewed by 799

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School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China
Interests: power converters; hybrid fuel cell power system; robust control strategy; electrified transportation
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School of Electrical Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 611756, China
Interests: energy management strategy; fuel cell hybrid power system; hydrogen power generation
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School of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing 100048, China
Interests: microgrid planning and operation; power system uncertainty analysis and modeling; renewable energy modeling; interaction between electric vehicles and smart grid
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FEMTO-ST Institute, University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard, 90010 Belfort, France
Interests: fuel cell modeling; electric hybrid vehicle design and real-time simulation technology for energy systems; energy management of hybrid power systems
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School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China
Interests: new energy power conversion; electrified transportation; internet of energy
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Dear Colleagues,

The power converter is a key technology that has been increasingly utilized not only in traditional industrial applications, but also in numerous innovative areas such as electrical aircraft, electrical ships, electrical vehicles/trains, new energy power generation systems, and data center power delivery, among others. This has contributed to advances in the circuit topology, modeling methods, control systems, optimization design, and test tools associated with current power converters, which are characterized by high efficiency, high power density, and high reliability. Moreover, these mission-critical and safety-critical applications have advanced research in the domain of fault diagnosis and fault tolerance, leading to the development of more fault-tolerant power converters.

This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate recent advances related to the theory, design, modeling, control, optimization, and application of all types of power converters.

The scope of this Special Issue includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:

    All aspects of DC/DC, DC/AC, AC/AC and AC/DC power converters;

    Power converters for electrified transportation (aircraft, trains, ships, vehicles, etc.);

    Power converters for new energy power generation systems;

    Novel applications of power converters (wireless charging system, pulse load system, etc.);

    Advanced modeling methods for power converters;

    New topology for high-performance power converters;

    Advanced control and energy management strategies for power converter systems;

    Optimal design for cost-effective power converters.

Dr. Shengrong Zhuo
Dr. Tianhong Wang
Dr. Wenshuai Bai
Dr. Elena Breaz
Prof. Dr. Yigeng Huangfu
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Keywords

  • power converter
  • electrified transportation
  • new energy power generation systems
  • optimal design and control
  • fault-tolerant converters

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A New Two-Stage Multiple-Parallel-Channel LED Driver Using a CLL-C Resonant Converter and Time Division Control Technique
by Duc Hung Tran, Zeeshan Waheed and Woojin Choi
Energies 2025, 18(5), 1215; https://doi.org/10.3390/en18051215 - 2 Mar 2025
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This paper introduces a new two-stage multi-parallel-channel LED driver using a CLL-C resonant converter as the first stage and a Time Division Multiple Control circuit as the second stage. The first stage of the proposed converter topology has been developed from CLL-C topology [...] Read more.
This paper introduces a new two-stage multi-parallel-channel LED driver using a CLL-C resonant converter as the first stage and a Time Division Multiple Control circuit as the second stage. The first stage of the proposed converter topology has been developed from CLL-C topology with an additional inductor in the primary side and a capacitor in the secondary side. The converter provides a constant current at a resonant frequency with a Zero Phase Angle (ZPA), thus achieving Zero Voltage Switching (ZVS) turn-on, nearly Zero Current Switching (ZCS) turn-off for the switches, and ZCS for the diodes. The Time Division Multiple Control (TDMC) circuit was applied in the second stage to share the balanced current to each LED string. A 200 W prototype with five output channels was implemented to verify the superior advantages of the proposed topology with a maximum efficiency of 95.05%. Full article
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