Comprehensive study of single-phase AC-DC power factor corrected converters with high-frequency isolation

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 540-556

  Singh, Bhim ^a   Singh, Sanjeev ^b   Chandra, Ambrish ^c   Al Haddad, Kamal ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^b SANT LONGOWAL INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

Author keywords

AC DC converters; harmonic reduction; high frequency (HF) transformer isolation; improved power quality converters; power factor correction

Indexed keywords

AC-DC CONVERTERS; BUCK-BOOST; COMPREHENSIVE STUDIES; CONTROL STRATEGIES; DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; HARMONIC REDUCTION; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGH-FREQUENCY ISOLATION; INPUT CURRENT; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; POWER FACTOR CORRECTIONS; POWER FACTORS; POWER-FACTOR-CORRECTED CONVERTERS; SELECTION CRITERIA; SOLID STATE SWITCH; TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTIONS;

DC TRANSFORMERS; DC-DC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC AUTOTRANSFORMERS; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR CORRECTION; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; POWER QUALITY; QUALITY CONTROL;

DC POWER TRANSMISSION;

EID: 81255142041     PISSN: 15513203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TII.2011.2166798     Document Type: Article

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