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MATLAB Simulink Model of Dual Active Bridge

Converter for Solid State Transformer
Bharat Bhushan Khare Dr. Vinay Thapar
Student Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering Department of Electrical Engineering
UIT, RGPV Bhopal UIT, RGPV Bhopal
[email protected] [email protected]

Abstract— Solid State Transformer (SST) is one of the

emerging technologies for smart distribution system. It can be used
as an energy router in the energy delivery and management system.
In this paper, the basic architecture of SST is discussed and a
MATLAB simulink model of dual active bridge converter is
designed. Phase shift control technique is used to design the
controller. The simulation results are also presented here.
Fig. 1 Basic structure of SST [1]
Keywords— Solid State Transformer, Power Electronic
Converters, Dual Active Bridge, High Frequency Transformer etc.

Nomenclature—
SST - Solid State Transformer
HFT- High Frequency Transformer
DAB- Dual Active Converter
HVDC – High Voltage DC Link
LVDC – Low Voltage DC Link
HVAC - High Voltage AC Link
Vdc_H – Input Voltage of DAB
Vdc_L – Output Voltage of DAB
n – Turn Ration of HFT

I. INTRODUCTION
Solid state transformer is also known as electronic
transformer, intelligent universal transformer and power
electronics transformer and is a combination of power
electronic converters and high frequency transformer [1-3]. In
1970 William MC Murray has patented this transformer and
named it ‘Electronic Transformer [2, 3]. In order to improve
the performance of SST many researchers have developed
their models.
SST offers several advantages such as voltage
sagcompensation, fault isolation, power factor correction,
harmonic isolation and additional DC output etc, over its
conventional counterpart; however, the cost of SST is
approximately five times higher than that of conventional
transformer [1, 4, 5]. Fig. 2 Topology of SST [9]
SST has varied applications, such as in DC micro-grid, fast
charging stations for electric vehicles, traction system etc [1, In type A, direct AC to AC conversion is performed, whereas
6, 7]. When real time monitoring system is used with SST, it in type B and C, either high voltage DC (HVDC) link or Low
is called smart transformer [8]. The Basic structure of SST is Voltage DC (LVDC) link is present in the type D, both
shown in figure 1, here the High frequency Transformer HVDC and LVDC link is present. In the type D, the input AC
(HFT) is connected in the middle of Power electronic is converted into HVDC through rectifier then HVDC is
converters. converted into LVDC through isolated DC to DC converter
Based upon the converters configuration SST can be classified and then LVDC is converted into Low voltage AC (LVAC)
into four types which are A, B, C and D as shown in figure 2 link.
[1, 9, 10]. Various types of converters are used at DC-DC conversion
stage such as full bridge DC-DC converter, Series Resonant
Converter and Dual Active Bridge (DAB) Converter etc. out
of that DAB converter is widely used.In this paper, the

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MATLAB Simulink model of DAB converter is presented
using phase shift control technique.
The rest of the paper is divided four sections. The section II
deals with the configuration of DAB converter. In section III
the parameters of selected DAB and its MATLAB Simulation
model is shown. The results of simulation are presented in
section IV and conclusions are given in section V.

II. CONFIGURATION OF DAB CONVERTER

Bidirectional isolated dc-dc DAB converters was initially

proposed by De Doncker et al., in 1991 [11].This has benefits
as zero voltage switching (ZVS), bidirectional power flow,
and lower component stresses.
The circuit diagram of the DAB converter is shown in Figure.
3.

Fig. 3 Circuit diagram of the DAB converter Fig. 4 Waveform of the DAB converter

In this figure, S1 to S8 are the switching devices used to

III. MATLAB SIMULATION MODEL
construct the converter, Vdc_H and Vdc_Lis the voltage of input
and output respectively. Io is the output current of DAB and
n:1 in the turn ratio of HFT. MATLAB Simulink model of Dual Active Bridge is shown in
Various types of materials are used in the core of HFT, such figure 5. Phase shift controller is used to control the
as ferrite, amorphous and Nano-crystalline [1, 2, 10]. In all converters, connected on both side of HFT. The model for
these type, Nano-crystalline material is best candidate to controller is shown in figure 6.
construct the core of HFT [12]. For the winding to compensate The Simulink parameters used to construct the DAB
the high frequencies losses, Litz wire is used [12]. For the Converter in MATLAB is shown in table 1.
switching devices, Sic semiconductor based devices are
currently being used [13]. Table 1 Simulation Parameters

In the DAB, neglecting the switching losses, the amount of Sr.No. Parameter Nmae Value
transferred power being controlled by the duty cycle, is given
by [14] 1 Input Voltage 3 kV
2 HFT Turn Ratio 8
3 Switching Frequency 1 kHz
4 Output Voltage 400 V
Where, L is the inductance of HFT and fs its switching 5 L (Filter) 0.135 mH
frequency.
The steady state waveform of the single phase shift (SPS) 6 C (Filter) 150 µF
control method of the DAB converter is shown in Figure4.
7 Load (R) 60 ohm
Here duty cycle is represented by “D”.

The primary and secondary side voltages of high frequency

transformer is shown in figure 7 and the output waveforms of
voltage and current are shown in figure 8.

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Fig. 5 MATLAB Simulink model of DAB

Fig. 8 output waveform of voltage and current

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