Analysis of the tradeoffs between thermal behavior and EMI noise levels in a boost PFC circuit

Author

Hertz, E.M. ; Busquets-Monge, S. ; Boroyevich, D. ; Arpilliere, M. ; Boutillier, H.

Author_Institution

Bradley Dept. of Electr. Eng., Virginia Polytech. Inst. & State Univ., Blacksburg, VA, USA

Volume

4

fYear

2001

Firstpage

2460

Abstract

The need to provide power factor correction (PFC) and low electromagnetic interference (EMI) is required in a growing number of applications. The boost PFC circuit is widely used to fulfil this requirement because it can easily be implemented to provide a high power factor with high efficiency. The aim of this work is to provide insight into the tradeoffs between reducing the EMI noise levels and the penalties, or advantages, incurred in the thermal performance of the circuit. A 1 kW boost converter with 230 V AC 50 Hz input and 368 V output has been constructed for this study.

Keywords

DC-DC power convertors; electromagnetic interference; power factor correction; thermal analysis; 1 kW; 230 V; 368 V; 50 Hz; EMI noise levels; boost PFC circuit; boost converter; high efficiency; high power factor; low EMI; low electromagnetic interference; power factor correction; thermal behavior; thermal performance; Circuit noise; Electromagnetic interference; Noise level;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industry Applications Conference, 2001. Thirty-Sixth IAS Annual Meeting. Conference Record of the 2001 IEEE

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL, USA

ISSN

0197-2618

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7114-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IAS.2001.955966

Filename

955966