DC-Modulated Power Factor Correction AC/AC Converters

Author

Luo, Fang Lin ; Ye, Hong

fYear

2007

fDate

23-25 May 2007

Firstpage

1477

Lastpage

1483

Abstract

Power factor correction (PFC) is the capacity of generating or absorbing the reactive power produced by a load. Single-stage AC/AC converters are the most popular structure widely applied in various industrial applications. These AC/AC converters are traditionally implemented by voltage regulation technique. However, they have high total harmonic distortion (THD), low power factor (PF) and poor power transfer efficiency (n). This paper introduces a novel approach method - DC-modulation that implements DC/DC conversion technology into the AC/AC converters. The DC-modulated single-stage power factor correction AC/AC converters effectively improved the power factor up to PF = 0.999 and the power transfer efficiency up to 97.8 %. The experimental results verified our design and calculation. This technique will be widely applied in many industrial applications.

Keywords

AC-AC power convertors; harmonic distortion; power factor correction; voltage control; AC-AC converters; DC-modulated power factor correction; PFC; THD; efficiency 97.8 percent; low power factor; power transfer efficiency; reactive power; total harmonic distortion; voltage regulation technique; Industrial electronics; Power factor correction; DC-modulated AC/AC converters; DC-modulation; Mathematical modeling; Powerfactor correction; Total harmonic distortion; Voltage regulation technique; power transfer efficiency;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics and Applications, 2007. ICIEA 2007. 2nd IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Harbin

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0737-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0737-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIEA.2007.4318652

Filename

4318652