Design guidelines for interleaved single-phase boost PFC circuits

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2559-2573

  Nussbaumer, Thomas ^a,b   Raggl, Kolar ^a,c   Kolar, Johann W ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b LEVITRONIX GMBH   (Switzerland)

^c Hilti AG   (Liechtenstein)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC); Interleaved converters; Power density; Power factor correction (PFC); Single phase boost converter

Indexed keywords

A-THERMAL; BOOST INDUCTORS; BOOST PFC; CURRENT STRESS; DESIGN GUIDELINES; DISCONTINUOUS CONDUCTION MODE; ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY STANDARDS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; INPUT FILTER; INTEGRATED SYSTEMS; INTERLEAVED CONVERTERS; OPERATION MODE; OPTIMIZED SYSTEM; OUTPUT CAPACITOR; POWER DENSITIES; POWER DENSITY; POWER FACTOR CORRECTION (PFC); QUASI-PEAK DETECTION; SINGLE-PHASE BOOST CONVERTER; TEST RECEIVERS;

DESIGN; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY; ELECTROMAGNETISM; PLASTIC MOLDS; REGULATORY COMPLIANCE;

AC GENERATOR MOTORS;

EID: 67651163920     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2009.2020073     Document Type: Article

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