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The Transactions P of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers

Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering

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Title Control of a Bridgeless PFC with the Discontinuous Conduction Mode
Authors 나재두(La, Jae-Du) ; 이용근(Lee, Yong-Geun)
DOI https://doi.org/10.5370/KIEEP.2014.63.4.248
Page pp.248-253
ISSN 1229-800X
Keywords Discontinuous conduction mode (DCM) ; Power factor correction (PFC) ; Bridgeless PFC (BPFC)
Abstract Generally, power factor correction (PFC) techniques play an important role in the power supply technology. Many new circuit topologies and control strategies for PFC have been proposed. Among them, the brideless PFC (BPFC) reduces the number of switching devices and the losses and improves the power density as well. Moreover, by implementing the improved topology in the discontinous conduction mode (DCM) it ensures almost unity power factor in a simple and effective manner. In the DCM operation gives additional advantages such as zero-current turn-on in the power switches, zero-current turn-off in the output diode and reduces the complexity of the control circuitry. In this paper, a new control strategy for the BPFC is proposed. Also, the performance of the proposed system is demonstrated through experiments.