Exploration of Three-port DC to DC Converters and its Multidisciplinary Applications

Three port converter (TPC) is an energy efficient interface between energy source, load and energy storage in variety of power conversion applications. Obviously, different topologies of TPCs are required to interface several energy sources and loads as their requirements are different. In view of this, large number of TPCs are reported by researchers for different applications. An investigation in to the features of these topologies and its intended applications is essential to choose or propose a novel TPC for a given application. Therefore, a characteristic overview and detailed study of various types of TPCs reported by researchers forms the content of this paper. Additionally, a comparison of reported topologies of TPC and its multidisciplinary applications are also presented.