Six-Plate Capacitive Coupler to Reduce Electric Field Emission in Large Air-Gap Capacitive Power Transfer

被引:129
作者
Zhang, Hua [1 ,2 ]
Lu, Fei [2 ,3 ]
Hofmann, Heath [3 ]
Liu, Weiguo [1 ]
Mi, Chunting Chris [2 ]
机构
[1] Northwestern Polytech Univ, Sch Automat, Xian 710072, Shaanxi, Peoples R China
[2] San Diego State Univ, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, San Diego, CA 92182 USA
[3] Univ Michigan, Dept Elect Engn & Comp Sci, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
关键词
Capacitive power transfer (CPT); electric field emission; equivalent circuit model; six-plate coupler;
D O I
10.1109/TPEL.2017.2662583
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
This paper proposes a six-plate capacitive coupler for large air-gap capacitive power transfer to reduce electric field emissions to the surrounding environment. Compared to the conventional four-plate horizontal structure, the six-plate coupler contains two additional plates above and below the inner four-plate coupler to provide a shielding effect. Since there is a capacitive coupling between every two plates, the six-plate coupler results in a circuit model consisting of 15 coupling capacitors. This complex model is first simplified to an equivalent three-port circuit model, and then to a two-port circuit model which is used in circuit analysis and parameter design. This six-plate coupler can eliminate the external parallel capacitor in the previous LCLC topology, which results in the LCL compensation and reduces the system cost. Due to the symmetry of the coupler structure, the voltage between shielding plates is limited, which reduces electric field emissions. Finite element analysis by Maxwell is used to simulate the coupling capacitors and electric field distribution. Compared to the four-plate horizontal and vertical structures, the six-plate coupler can significantly reduce electric field emissions and expand the safety area from 0.9 to 0.1 m away from the coupler in the well-aligned case. A 1.97 kW prototype is implemented to validate the six-plate coupler, which achieves a power density of 1.95 kW/m(2) and a dc-dc efficiency of 91.6% at an air-gap of 150 mm. Experiments also show that the output power maintains 65% of the well-aligned value at 300 mm X misalignment, and 49% at 300 mm Y misalignment.
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页码:665 / 675
页数:11
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