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This book presents a possible solution to enhance utility grid performance when unconventional loads are connected to the public network. This topology shows a combination of dc-link and magnetic-coupling structures, which allows the interconnection of multiple sources, storage devices, and loads without the penalty of extra conversion. The proposed general topology shows several possibilities to construct a multiport converter for electric vehicle applications and, due to its flexibility in structure, provides a solution to integrate a diverse class of sources and loads. In addition, the control and energy management of the converter can be implemented by a single processor. The centralized control eliminates complicated communication structures that would be necessary in the conventional topology based on separate conversion stages.

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Gierri Waltrich is an Assistant Professor at Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from UFSC, in 2007 and 2009, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree, in electrical engineering, from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), The Netherlands, in 2013.

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