Comparison of Three Front-end DC-DC Converters for 1200W Server Power Supply

Author

Li, Dong ; Ruan, Xinbo

Author_Institution

Coll. of Autom. Eng., Nanjing Univ. of Aeronaut. & Astronaut.

fYear

2005

fDate

16-16 June 2005

Firstpage

394

Lastpage

398

Abstract

Server power supply with universal input is composed of power factor correction (PFC) stage and front-end dc-dc stage. The output voltage of PFC stage varies with input voltage rms in order to improve the efficiency at low line. So it is important to select a dc-dc converter with wide input range. This paper proposes that a hybrid full-bridge three-level (HFB TL) converter is suitable for this application. The merits of this converter are low voltage stress of power semiconductor, small circulating energy and output filter inductor. The features of proposed converter are compared with the conventional phase-shift full-bridge (PS FB) dc-dc converter. The prototypes of two PS FB converters with different input range and HFB TL converter are built up to verify the analysis

Keywords

DC-DC power convertors; bridge circuits; power factor correction; power supplies to apparatus; 1200 W; PFC; circulating energy; front-end DC-DC converters; hybrid full-bridge three-level converter; output filter inductor; phase-shift full-bridge dc-dc converter; power factor correction; power semiconductor; server power supply; Active filters; Bridge circuits; DC-DC power converters; Inductors; Power factor correction; Power supplies; Stress; Switches; Switching converters; Zero voltage switching;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics Specialists Conference, 2005. PESC '05. IEEE 36th

Conference_Location

Recife

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9033-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PESC.2005.1581654

Filename

1581654