POWER ELECTRONICS HANDBOOK, 3rd Edition

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Power Factor Correction Circuits

Issa Batarseh, Ph.D. and Huai Wei, Ph.D.

School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Blvd., Orlando, Florida, USA

19.1 Introduction

19.2 Definition of PF and THD

19.3 Power Factor Correction

19.3.1 Energy Balance in PFC Circuits

19.3.2 Passive Power Factor Corrector

19.3.3 Basic Circuit Topologies of Active Power Factor Correctors

19.3.4 System Configurations of PFC Power Supply

19.4 CCM Shaping Technique

19.4.1 Current Mode Control

19.4.2 Voltage Mode Control

19.5 DCM Input Technique

19.5.1 Power Factor Correction Capabilities of the Basic Converter Topologies in DCM

19.5.2 AC–DC Power Supply with DCM Input Technique

19.5.3 Other PFC Techniques ...