Single phase power factor correction — A review

Single Phase Power Factor Correction: A Survey

New recommendations and future standards have increased the interest in power factor correction circuits. There are multiple solutions in which line current is sinusoidal. In addition, in the recent years, a great number of circuits have been proposed with nonsinusoidal line current. In this paper, a review of the most interesting solutions for single phase and low power applications is carried...

Three Phase Active Power Factor Correction in a Single Step

Topological Issues in Single-phase Power Factor Correction

The equipment connected to an electricity distribution network usually needs some kind of power conditioning, typically rectification, which produces a nonsinusoidal line current due to the nonlinear input characteristic. With the steadily increasing use of such equipment, line current harmonics have become a significant problem. Their adverse effects on the power system are well recognized. Th...

A single stage single switch power factor correction converter

The flyback-flyback single stage converter operated in DCM+DCM is easy to control bus voltage, but it hard to control stress of switch. We propose a new converter having low voltage stress on its switch. The flyback converter is simplified into buck-boost form. Then the PFC flyback transformer is replaced by an inductor The switch of both PFC and DC/DC stages are merged, and a diode is used to ...

Single Stage Techniques for Power Factor Correction

Medium and high power switch mode power supplies SMPS (>500W) used in telecommunications stations are normally based on the full-bridge DC-DC converter with isolation transformer. According to the transistors states, the full-bridge converter allows four different switching sates which can be used to control the output voltage of the SMPS, and to perform the power factor corrector (PFC) functio...