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AC-DC converters are mostly used as power supplies for microelectronic systems, battery chargers, wind energy applications, electric appliances in household and dc motor drives. Switched-capacitor (SC) network based converters can be good solution to the challenges of 21st century having high voltage conversion ratio and low EMI emissions. The application of this type of converters is in microprocessor...
This paper presents a high-power-density high-power-factor GaN-based two-stage electrolytic-free offline LED driver. The LED driver achieves high power density through the use of a hybrid film-ceramic stacked switched capacitor (SSC) energy buffer, and a comprehensive optimization methodology that evaluates various converter topologies and designs, and minimizes overall system volume while maintaining...
This paper proposes a single-stage high-power-factor asymmetrical half-bridge AC-DC converter for power factor correction. The proposed converter is developed by integrating an asymmetrical half-bridge DC-DC converter with a set of coupled inductors and a blocking diode to achieve the single-stage AC-DC conversion with the buck-boost type power factor correction. By using the coupled inductors, the...
Wireless charger for Electric Vehicles (EVs) is an off-line application and it needs power factor correction (PFC) function, which usually consists of a front-end boost PFC and a cascaded DC/DC converter. Z-source resonant converter (ZSRC), a single-stage solution with low cost and high efficiency, was proposed for EV wireless charger lately. The Z-source capacitors in the ZSRC are designed to absorb...
Hybrid renewable energy systems (HRESs) have been introduced to provide reliable green energy by combining different renewable resources as renewable resources are intermittent in nature. Renewable resources are typically compatible with DC distribution. Therefore, highly efficient high voltage DC (HVDC) distribution is the way to the future for HRESs. Multi-input converters (MICs) have been presented...
In this paper we review some of the fundamental limits of dc-dc power converters described in 1966 and 1969 and generate an averaged power model that is useful to perform high-level comparison of power converters and architectures. The model is extended to 3 port power converters, which is used to calculate the minimum possible internal power to be processed by the components of the power stage of...
A quasi single-stage power factor correction converter, which is composed of a three-level (TL) Boost converter and a DC-DC transformer (DCX), is presented and analyzed in this paper. The DC output load is connected to one of the dividing capacitors of the TL Boost converter, so that the load voltage can be lower than the peak amplitude of the AC line voltage and part of the AC input power can be...
This paper realizes a high power factor, high reliability, and low cost PMSM drive system with small DC-link capacitor. Compared with conventional bulky electrolytic capacitor for the regulation of DC-link voltage, a small-size film capacitor with capacitance reduction to 1% is used to realize a seneorless PMSM drive with high power factor, high reliability, and high compactness. To overcome high...
AC-DC single-stage converters are widely used in industrial applications because they are cheaper than conventional two-stage converters. In this paper, state of the art low power single-stage converters are reviewed. These converters are classified into several types in the paper, the operation of an example converter of each type is discussed, and the advantages and drawbacks of each type are stated...
This paper analyzes a new architecture of the AC/DC type power supply for data centers. The source cumulates the following functions: three-phase current rectification, transformation of voltage parameters and DC voltage stabilization. The source ensures the reactive power compensation and does not distort the currents in the power three-phase network. The transfer of power from the alternating current...
In this paper, a novel bridgeless Flyback power factor correction rectifier is presented. Two active power switches, rather than the line-voltage diode bridge, are used to provide the bidirectional power flow. In comparison with the existing Flyback rectifiers, the proposed topology uses less number of transformer windings which simplifies the complexity of implementation in terms of magnetic utilization...
Compared with the typical three-phase voltage converter, the current source rectifier is very interesting front-end converter because of its buck-type nature and low electromagnetic interferences. However, it includes LC filter, which causes distortions of the grid currents and enhances the reactive power. Proper control algorithm can fix those disadvantages. The chosen option is finite control set...
PFC converters are widely used in industrial drive systems. The modulation scheme and the topology of the converter have a considerable impact not only on the switching losses, but also on the volume of the passive components, i.e. the EMI filter (CM and DM) and the dC link capacitors. In order to evaluate this impact, different modulation schemes for 2L and 3L topologies are analysed in this paper...
The paper proposes an electronic-smoothing inductor (ESI) as an energy storage element in current-source PFC based LED drivers. In comparison with the passive inductor approach, the required inductance value of the overall driver circuit can be significantly reduced such that better power density and efficiency can be achieved. The derivation of different structures of current-source LED drivers by...
This paper presents a new power supply consisting of an inverter and a power factor correcting stage with an integrated active energy storage for servo drives. The energy storage is realized with a capacitor and a DC-DC-converter. This enables the power supply to reuse the braking energy of servo drives instead of losing it in a braking chopper resistor. The main advantage is the simple integration...
According to the requirement of the power factor and the dynamic performance of the asynchronous machine tool field, an asynchronous motor inverter with active power factor correction is proposed. The proposed inverter is a 3kW asynchronous motor drive control platform. At first, the proposed single phase converter with APFC is realized by using the MATLAB/SIMULINK. Then, the boost APFC is designed...
This paper proposes a mixed dq-control scheme for a sensorless PMSM drive to improve input power factor with an electrolytic capacitor-less bridge rectifier. Instead of using bulky traditional electrolytic capacitor, a very small film capacitor is adopted to achieve high input power factor with improved power density and reliability. However, due to large dc-link voltage fluctuations, deterioration...
A novel observer-based feedforward compensation method is proposed to improve the output voltage regulation of a boost power-factor-correction (PFC) rectifier. A feedback observer estimates the load current for use in the feedforward correction of the inductor current. The feedback gain of the observer is intimately related to the regulation error of the output voltage. Given required performance,...
This research proposes technical and financial evaluation for investment of harmonic mitigation in power network. Main proposal of research is analysis of harmonic impact and harmonic solution by regarding to economic decency for investment. The parallel resonance is harmonic impact that will be mentioned in this research because it is a problem that is mostly emerged in industries that contain non-linear...
Based on the fact that both the phase and amplitude characteristics of fractional capacitor are related to its order, the introduction of fractional capacitor will make power factor correction (PFC) more flexible compared with the one using conventional capacitor. In order to verify the PFC function with fractional capacitor, an equivalent fractional capacitor model composed of an inverter and a resistor...
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