POWER FACTOR CORRECTION

IN AC - DC CONVERTERS
WITH
BOOST TOPOLOGY

Under The Guidance of

Presented BY

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 INTRODUCTION
vPower factor plays
a key role in
delivering QUALITY
Power to customers .
vPower Factor
correction seeks to
eliminate current
spikes .
vThis paper deals
 POWER FACTOR
AND
NEED FOR CORRECTION

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POWER FACTOR AND NEED FOR CORRECTION:

v The term power factor is

borrowed from elementary AC
circuit theory. When a sinusoidal
AC power source feeds either an
inductive or a capacitive load, the
load current is also sinusoidal
but lags or leads the input
voltage by some angle x
v In AC power circuit
jargon, the magnitude of cos x is
referred to as the power factor. It
is desirable to keep the power
factor as close to unity as
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 Power Factor Correction
In
Switching Power Supplies

                                                  In the field of switching

regulators circuit configuration which causes
input line current to be non-sinusoidal or
sinusoidal but out of phase which sinusoidal
input voltage are to have harmonics of the line
voltage results in a lowered power factor

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 IAC
VAC
C0 V0

Fig: Bridge Rectifier 

with Filter Capacitor (C0)

Fig: Output Voltage with and 
without Filter Capacitor (C0)

Fig: Input Line current with 
Filter Capacitor (C0) 

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 Power Factor Correction - Basic
Circuit Details

IA C VI N

L1
V AC V 0 = V I N / ( 1 - O TN / T )
D1
C0 R0
Q1

RS
T

TO N

Fig: Basic Circuit for Power Factor Correction

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 §Boost  convertor  “boosts”  a  low 
voltage to a higher voltage

form after the Bridge Fig

Rectifier
: voltagewith
waveform
Power after
Factorthe
Correction
Bridge Rectifier with Power

VIN
V0=
The  output­  input  voltage 
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relation  of  a  Boost  convertor  1-TON / T
is given by
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Significant  currents  in  boost  converter  at 
points  progressively  higher  up  on  the  half 
sinusoidal waveforms

Q1 ON Q1 ON Q1 ON Q1 ON Q1 ON Q1 ON

di/dt = V IN /L1

d i / d t = V( 0 - V IN ) / L 1

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ØThe final voltage which controls the
Boost Regulators ON time must be a
mix of the dc output voltage error and
the input line current error voltage.

ØThe optimum value of a inductor has

to be selected.

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Simplified diagram of power

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power factor correction circuit with 
Boost Topology

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 Conclusion:

§ The new concept of power

factor correction with boost
topology proposed in this
paper corrects the power
factor to 0.9lag.
§ The power taken by the
converter from the ac supply
side is 1000w and almost
1000w is obtained at the DC
output side of the converter.
§ The performance of the above
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