Boost interleaved PFC versus bridgeless boost interleaved PFC converter performance/efficiency analysis

Author

Ancuti, Mihaela-Codruta ; Svoboda, M. ; Musuroi, Sorin ; Hedes, A. ; Olarescu, Nicola-Valeriu ; Wienmann, Martin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. Politeh. of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania

fYear

2014

fDate

23-25 Oct. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

In the last two decades, a great part of research in the power electronics area has been involved in finding methods of improving the input current waveform while simultaneously avoiding phase displacement. The aim of the paper consists of selecting two of the most relevant single phase power factor correction (PFC) topologies currently existing for the power range of 1.5 kW up to 4 kW and to analyse and evaluate them. The investigated topologies are the boost interleaved PFC converter and the bridgeless boost interleaved PFC converter. Performances of the two studied topologies are simulated in Matlab/Simulink. Loss analysis and efficiency evaluation are also provided. The simulation results verify that the bridgeless boost interleaved PFC converter demonstrates a slightly higher efficiency than the interleaved boost PFC converter topology.

Keywords

power convertors; power factor correction; Matlab-Simulink; boost interleaved PFC converter topology; bridgeless boost interleaved PFC converter; efficiency evaluation; input current waveform; loss analysis; power electronics area; single phase PFC topologies; single phase power factor correction topologies; Bridge circuits; Control systems; Inductors; MOSFET; Semiconductor diodes; Topology; Voltage control; boost interleaved converter; bridgeless boost interleaved converter; power factor correction (PFC);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied and Theoretical Electricity (ICATE), 2014 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Craiova

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICATE.2014.6972651

Filename

6972651