Modeling and Design Optimization of Energy Transfer Rate for Hybrid Energy Storage System in Electromagnetic Launch

The battery-pulse capacitor-based hybrid energy storage system has the advantage of high-energy density and high-power density. However, to achieve a higher firing rate of the electromagnetic launch, a shorter charging time of the pulse capacitor from the battery is needed. A new optimization model by formulating the charging time problem as a constrained optimization problem is presented. Unlike existing algorithms, the proposed model can find the globally optimal solution. The circuit parameters are optimized through the Enumeration algorithm to minimize the total charging time of the pulse capacitors from batteries. The simulation results show that the charging time of the proposed algorithm is shorter than the compared methods. Furthermore, a better solution could be obtained by canceling the constraint on the first peak of the charging current of the compared methods, which makes the circuit design more flexible for the hybrid energy storage system in the electromagnetic launch.