The presence of 12 switches and their operation in the hard-switching mode results in high conduction and switching losses. The line current will then have the superimposed input inductor ripple current at high switching frequency, which needs to be filtered out by an additional high frequency filter on ac line. Note, however, its complexity consisting of four transistors on the primary side and four diode rectifiers on the secondary side operating at the switching frequency of, for example, 100kHz with additional four diodes of input bridge rectifier operating at the line frequency of 50Hz or 60Hz resulting in total 12 switches. 2a, one approach is to use a full-bridge extension of the Boost converter to introduce isolation, which is then controlled as PFC converter. An additional problem is that there is no simple and effective way to introduce the isolation in the conventional Boost converter of Fig. 1b, thus resulting in two-stage power processing. 1a, which can operate only from the rectified ac line as illustrated by the waveforms in Fig. The first limitation is found in the conventional Boost PFC converter shown in Fig. As a result, this Single-stage solution has much improved efficiency of over 98%, compared to 90% of the Three-stage approach and offers simultaneously significant size and cost reductions. An Integrated Magnetics extension results in a single magnetic component, 3-switch configuration, compared to 14-switches and four magnetic components of the conventional Three-stage approach. The high performance of the non-isolated Bridgeless PFC converter (described in July 2010 Power Electronics Technology) with 0.999 Power Factor and 1.7%THD harmonic distortion is preserved with the only addition being an appropriately inserted isolation transformer. Until now, it was considered impossible to have an AC-DC converter with PFC and isolation features provided in a single power processing stage and without mandatory full-bridge rectifier.
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