A new five-level buck-boost active rectifier

In this paper a new single-phase five-level buck-boost active rectifier is introduced called capacitor tied switches (CTS). The proposed rectifier has two independent DC outputs that can be connected to two different loads. Different switching states and the average mode of the proposed topology are analyzed to design the associated controller aims at regulating the two output DC voltages, generating five-level voltage at the input of the rectifier and finally draw unity power factor and sinusoidal current from AC grid. From AC grid view, the rectifier works in boost mode however the generated DC voltage can be split into two separate outputs which may be less than the AC peak voltage or even more leads to work in both buck and boost operation mode. Full simulation results are shown and analyzed to validate the effective operation and good dynamic performance of the proposed five-level buck-boost rectifier.