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An Integrated High-Power-Factor Converter

with ZVS Transition
Abstract
Owing to the advantages of simple circuit topology and easy control,
boost or buck-boost converters have been widely served as power-factor
correctors. In order to achieve unity power factor, it requires the output
voltage of both converter be higher than the amplitude of the ac line voltage.
Therefore, high-power-factor ac/dc converters usually consist of two stages.
The first one is an ac-to-dc stage which performs the function of PFC and the
second one is a dc-to-dc stage used to supply stable dc voltage to the load. In
spite of their good performance, the circuit efficiency of two-stage
approaches is impaired since it takes two energy-conversion processes which
inevitably introduce some losses including switching loss, conduction loss
and magnetic core loss.

Existing system
The integration of two stages, a buck-boost converter and a class-E resonant
inverter, in a single stage electronic ballast with only one active power
switch. Usually, in order to achieve high circuit efficiency, the buck-boost
converter is operated in a discontinuous conduction mode (DCM) at affixed
frequency with a constant duty cycle.

Proposed system
The proposed circuit mainly consists of a low-pass filter (Lm and Cm),
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a diode-bridge rectifier (D1-D4), a boost converter and a buck converter. The
boost converter is composed of Lp, DS1, S2 and Cdc and the buck converter
is composed of Lb, D5, DS2, S1 and Co. Both converters operate at a highswitching frequency, fs. The boost converter performs the function of PFC.
When it operates at discontinuous-conduction mode (DCM), the average
value of its inductor current in every high-switching cycle is approximately a
sinusoidal function. The low pass filter is used to remove the high frequency
current of the inductor current.

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