Design and Implementation of a Three-Phase Buck-Type Third Harmonic Current Injection PFC

In this paper, a three-phase buck-type unity power factor rectifier is designed for high-power electric vehicle battery charging mains interfaces. The characteristics of the converter, named the SWISS Rectifier (SR), including the principle of opera- tion, modulation strategy, suitable control structure, and dimen- sioning equations are described in detail. Exemplarily, a 7.5 kW hardware prototype is then designed based on the derived ana- lytical expressions and the feasibility of the SR concept is demon- strated by the means of experimental measurements. Finally, the SR is compared with a conventional six-switch buck-type ac-dc power conversion. According to the results, the SR is the topology of choice for a buck-type PFC.

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