Power quality improvement in PFC Bridgeless-Luo converter fed BLDC motor drive

This paper presents a PFC (Power Factor Correction) based BL-Luo (Bridgeless-Luo) converter fed BLDC (Brushless DC) motor drive. A single voltage sensor is used for the speed control of BLDC motor and PFC at AC mains. The voltage follower control is used for a BL-Luo converter operating in DICM (Discontinuous Inductor Current Mode). The speed of the BLDC motor is controlled by an approach of variable DC link voltage, which allows a low frequency switching of VSI (Voltage Source Inverter) for electronic commutation of BLDC motor; thus offers reduced switching losses. The proposed BLDC motor drive is designed to operate over a wide range of speed control with improved power quality at AC mains. The power quality indices thus obtained are under the recommended limits of IEC 61000-3-2. The performance of the proposed drive is validated with test results obtained on a developed prototype of the drive.