Batteries are gaining entry into every home and office for they are widely used because of
their variant benefits. However, these batteries are prone to failure caused by charge …

The battery pack performance and expected lifespan are crucial in electric vehicle
applications. Balancing the charge on a battery pack connected in series and parallel is …

This paper presents a battery-equalization circuit and its control strategy. Energy storage
inductors are applied in the circuit and their number is less than that of the switches. The …

A pack-to-cell-to-pack battery equalizer with soft-switching based on buck-boost converter
and bidirectional LC resonant converter is proposed to achieve a fast and high-efficiency …

The rise of electric vehicles (EVs) and hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) has resulted in
increases in battery toxic waste. Although the powering and capacity characteristics of …

As rapid industrialization and the use of fossil fuel resources accelerate climate change,
such as greenhouse effects, interest in eco-friendly energy is increasing worldwide …

The global energy demand is continuously increasing at a rapid rate owing to the
industrialization, population and economic growth while depleting fossil fuels for the …

Industrialization, overpopulation, rapid evolution and the human need to increase our living
standards often have a negative impact on our environment. Novel ideas and optimized …

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First off, I would like to thank my supervising professor Dr. David
Wetz for his support in this endeavor and dedication to me as a graduate student. None of …

The global energy demand is continuously increasing at a rapid rate owing to the
industrialization, population and economic growth while depleting fossil fuels for the …