Title :
A Line Cycle Skipping method to improve the light load efficiency and THD of PFC converters
Author :
Fiorentino, Christopher ; Hu, Zhiyuan ; Liu, Yan-Fei
Author_Institution :
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen´s University, Kingston, ON, Canada
Abstract :
Light load efficiency is becoming a very important performance specification for power supplies. To address the increasing requirements for higher efficiency and lower total harmonic distortion (THD) without increasing the cost or complexity of the design, a Line Cycle Skipping (LCS) method is proposed. This method can be applied to all PFC topologies. A 100W universal line input voltage PFC boost converter prototype is built to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Conference_Titel :
Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), 2013 Twenty-Eighth Annual IEEE
Conference_Location :
Long Beach, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4354-1
Electronic_ISBN :
1048-2334
DOI :
10.1109/APEC.2013.6520235
