Reliability comparison of boost PFC converter in DCM and CCM operating modes

Author

Abdi, B. ; Ranjbar, A.H. ; Milimonfared, J. ; Gharehpetian, G.B.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Amirkabir Univ. of Technol., Tehran

fYear

2008

fDate

11-13 June 2008

Firstpage

939

Lastpage

943

Abstract

Reliability plays an important role in power electronic systems by which the number of system failures, repair costs, guarantee and etc are estimated. In this paper first, a boost power factor correction (PFC) converter is simulated in discontinues conduction mode (DCM) and continuous conduction mode (CCM) under different output power ratings. For these simulations, all of the inherent parameters of MOSFET and diodes are applied according to the actual types. Then, reliability calculation is done based on MIL-HDBK-217 standard. Results have shown that the boost PFC converter would have better performance from reliability point of view in CCM operating mode.

Keywords

fault diagnosis; maintenance engineering; power MOSFET; power convertors; power factor correction; reliability; MIL-HDBK-217 standard; MOSFET; PFC converter; boost PFC converter; boost power factor correction; continuous conduction mode; discontinues conduction mode; operating modes; power electronic systems; repair costs; system failures; Circuits; Costs; Power electronics; Power factor correction; Power generation; Power supplies; Power system reliability; Stress; Switching converters; Voltage; Boost; Converter; PFC; Reliability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics, Electrical Drives, Automation and Motion, 2008. SPEEDAM 2008. International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Ischia

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1663-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1664-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SPEEDHAM.2008.4581288

Filename

4581288