A simplified resonant pole for three-level soft-switching PFC rectifier used in UPS

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2739-2746

  Rizet, Corentin ^a,b,c   Ferrieux, Jean Paul ^b   Le Moigne, Philippe ^a,d   Delarue, Philippe ^a,d   Lacarnoy, Alain ^c  

^a ECOLE CENTRALE DE LILLE   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE D ELECTROTECHNIQUE DE GRENOBLE   (France)

^c SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC   (France)

^d UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

Auxiliary resonant commutated pole (ARCP); multilevel; power factor corrector (PFC); soft switching; uninterruptible power supply (UPS); zero voltage switching (ZVS)

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954611505     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2009.2038392     Document Type: Article

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