An improved lossless passive snubber cell for PFC boost converter

Author

Bodur, Haci ; Yesilyurt, Huseyin ; Ozel, Hatice

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Yildiz Tech. Univ., Istanbul, Turkey

fYear

2013

fDate

2-4 Oct. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

An improved lossless passive snubber cell for power factor correction (PFC) boost converter is proposed. All of the semiconductor devices in the boost converter are operated under soft switching condition. The switch operates at zero current switching (ZCS) turn on and zero voltage switching (ZVS) turn off. The boost diode is turned off under both ZCS and ZVS conditions and is turned on under ZVS condition. The converter has larger overall efficiency and wider soft switching range than that of the most active and passive snubber cells proposed before. The proposed snubber cell in this study has simple structure. The detailed steady-state analysis and the simulation of the proposed circuit are carried out, and this theoretical analysis is verified by implementing a 50 kHz - 1 kW converter. The overall efficiency of the proposed passive snubber cell is measured about %97.5 at full load.

Keywords

power convertors; power factor correction; snubbers; zero current switching; zero voltage switching; PFC boost converter; ZCS; ZVS; boost converter; boost diode; frequency 50 kHz; lossless passive snubber cell; power 1 kW; power factor correction; semiconductor devices; soft switching; soft switching condition; steady-state analysis; theoretical analysis; zero current switching; zero voltage switching; Large scale integration; Open systems; Snubbers; Switches; Zero voltage switching; Power factor corrector; boost converter; passive lossless snubber;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electric Power and Energy Conversion Systems (EPECS), 2013 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Istanbul

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0687-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EPECS.2013.6712984

Filename

6712984