A new single-phase high-power-factor converter with buck and buck–boost hybrid operation

✍ Scribed by Shin-ichi Motegi; Akeshi Maeda; Yasuyuki Nishida

• Book ID: 101293873
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 410 KB
• Volume: 131
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0424-7760
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-6416(200003)131:3<91::aid-eej10>3.0.co;2-d

✦ Synopsis

In recent years, a wide variety of high-power-factor converter schemes have been proposed to solve the harmonic problem. The schemes are based on conventional boost, buck, or buckboost topology, and their performance, such as output voltage control range in the boost and buck topology or efficiency in the buckboost topology, is limited. To solve this, the authors propose a single-phase high-power-factor converter with a new topology obtained from a combination of buck and buckboost topology. The power stage performs the buck and buckboost operations by a compact single-stage converter circuit while the simple controller/modulator appropriately controls the alternation of the buck and buckboost operation and maintains a high-quality input current during both the buck and buck boost operations. The proposed scheme results in a highperformance rectifier with no limitation of output voltage control range and a high efficiency. In this paper, the principle and operation of the proposed converter scheme are described in detail and the theory is confirmed through experimental results obtained from 2-kW prototype converter.