A novel bridgeless buck-boost PFC converter

Conventional cascade buck-boost PFC (CBB-PFC) converter suffers from the high conduction loss in the input rectifier bridge. To resolve the above problem, a novel bridgeless buck-boost PFC topology is proposed in this paper. The proposed PFC converter which removes the input rectifier bridge has three conduction semiconductors at every moment. Comparing with CBB-PFC topology, the proposed topology reduces the conduction semiconductors, reduces conduction losses effectively, improves the efficiency of converter and is suitable for use in the wide input voltage range. In this paper, the average current mode control was implemented with UC3854, the theoretical analysis and design of detection circuits was presented. The experimental prototype with 400 V/600 W output and line input voltage range from 220 VAC to 380 VAC was built. Experimental results show that the proposed converter can improve 0.8% efficiency comparing CBB-PFC converter.

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