A Novel Soft-Switching Boost PFC with a Passive Snubber

Author

Zhao, Ran ; Pan, Jian ; Hui, Jing

Author_Institution

Southern Yangtze Univ., Wuxi

fYear

2007

fDate

23-25 May 2007

Firstpage

1473

Lastpage

1476

Abstract

A novel soft-switching boost converter used in power factor correction (PFC) is introduced in this paper. The basic circuit topology of the proposed converter consists of a traditional single-switch boost PFC and a lossless passive snubber. The snubber is composed of an auxiliary capacitor, an inductor and two diodes which are introduced to achieve ZVS and ZCS mode and let the converter work well under the conditions from light to rating loads. Furthermore, the operating principle of the converter which is different from described and some practical design considerations are discussed. Finally the simulation and experimental results analysed in detail are presented to determine the characteristics.

Keywords

power factor correction; snubbers; switching convertors; zero current switching; zero voltage switching; ZCS; ZVS; auxiliary capacitor; circuit topology; passive snubber; power factor correction; soft-switching boost PFC; soft-switching boost converter; Chromium; Circuit topology; Diodes; Inductors; Resonance; Snubbers; Switches; Switching circuits; Video recording; Zero voltage switching;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics and Applications, 2007. ICIEA 2007. 2nd IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Harbin

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0737-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0737-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIEA.2007.4318651

Filename

4318651