• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.07b
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• pp.1166-1168
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• 2003

In most power electronic applications, the AC power input provided by the electronic utility needs to first converted to a DC voltage. Such conversion is accomplished by a diode rectifier due to its circuit simplicity and low cost. However, since diode rectifiers have some intrinsic problems such as low power factor and high harmonic distortion, a wide use of such rectifiers may cause noises, malfunction and heat damage in both electrical power systems and electrical machinery systems. This paper proposes soft switched three-phase single switch boost-type converter. The proposed circuit can perform Zero Voltage Switched(ZVS) without using any current and voltage sensors. For this circuit, both simulation and experiments have been performed. The results not only confirmed the ZVS but also indicated that, compared to the conventional hard switched converter, the prosed circuit can improve the efficiency as much as 1.7 to 4.7[%] while keeping the same high power factor and small harmonic distortion in their AC input.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.315-322
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• 1998

Power conversion system must increase switching frequency in order to achieve small size, light weight and low noise. However, the switches of converter are subject to high switching power losses and switching stresses. As a result, the power system has a lower efficiency. In this paper, the authors propose an AC-DC boost converter of high efficiency by partial resonant switching mode. The switching devices in the proposed circuit are operated with soft switching and the control technique of those is simplified for switch to drive in constant duty cycle. The partial resonant circuit makes use of a inductor using step up and a condenser of loss-less snubber. Besides, by regenerating energy, that is charged in a loss less snubber condenser of a snubber adopted to a common circuit, toward an input source part, this circuit can get increased efficiency. as merit. The result is that the switching loss is very low, the efficiency and power factor of system is high. The proposed converter is deemed the most suitable for high power applications where the power switching devices are used.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.82-92
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• 1999

In this paper, we realize the active PFC(Power Factor Correction) system of the BF(Boost Forward) converter with the PWM-PFM control technique to control DC output voltage, to rermve the noise like hanronics at the output voltage, amd to control the input ClUTent with sinusoidal wave synchronized by the source voltage. We take the simulation and analyze the switching signal of the BF converter, input/output voltage and current, its harmonics and power factor through PSpice. And it has bren obtained harmonic reduction and efficiency improverrent.errent.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2004.07b
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• pp.670-672
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• 2004

In this paper, single phase boost converter with low current harmonic components and high power factor are proposed. A single-phase half-bridge rectifier based on a neutral point switch clamped scheme is proposed to draw a nearly unity power factor and regulate the DC link voltage. Three power switches are employed in the proposed rectifier. This rectifier is controlled to generate a bipolar or unipolar PWM voltage waveform on the AC side. The proposed converter is implemented by a digital signal processor.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.66 no.2
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• pp.328-338
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• 2017

In this paper, a zero torque control scheme adopting current sharing function (CSF) used in integrated Switched Reluctance Motor (SRM) drive with DC battery charger is proposed. The proposed control scheme is able to achieve the keeping position (KP), zero torque (ZT) and power factor correction (PFC) at the same time with a simple novel current sharing function algorithm. The proposed CSF makes the proper reference for each phase windings of SRM to satisfy the total charging current of the battery with zero torque output to hold still position with power factor correction, and the copper loss minimization during of battery charging is also achieved during this process. Based on these, CSFs can be used without any recalculation of the optimal current at every sampling time. In this proposed integrated battery charger system, the cost effective, volume and weight reduction and power enlargement is realized by function multiplexing of the motor winding and asymmetric SR converter. By using the phase winding as large inductors for charging process, and taking the asymmetric SR converter as an interleaved converter with boost mode operation, the EV can be charged effectively and successfully with minimum integral system. In this integral system, there is a position sliding mode controller used to overcome any uncertainty such as mutual inductance or DC offset current sensor. Power factor correction and voltage adaption are obtained with three-phase buck type converter (or current source rectifier) that is cascaded with conventional SRM, one for wide input and output voltage range. The practicability is validated by the simulation and experimental results by using a laboratory 3-hp SRM setup based on TI TMS320F28335 platform.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.997-1006
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• 2018

This paper proposes a transformerless photovoltaic (PV) power converter system based on the DC/AC boost inverter, which can solve the leakage current and second-order ripple power issues in single-phase grid-connected PV inverters. In the proposed topology, the leakage current can be decreased remarkably since most of the common-mode currents flow through the output capacitor, by-passing parasitic capacitors, and grounding resistors. In addition, the inherent ripple power component in the single-phase grid inverter can be suppressed without adding any extra components. Therefore, bulky electrolytic capacitors can be replaced by small film capacitors. The effectiveness of the proposed topology has been verified by simulation and experimental results for a 1-kW PV PCS.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.10b
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• pp.154-158
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• 2006

The switching-mode power converter has been widely used because of its features of high efficiency and small weight and size. These features are brought by the ON-OFF operation of semiconductor switching devices. However, this switching operation causes the surge and EMI(Electromagnetic Interference) which deteriorate the reliability of the converter themselves and entire electronic systems. This problem on the surge and noise is one of the most serious difficulties in AC-to-DC converter. Random Pulse Width Modulation (RPWM) is peformed by adding a random perturbation to switching instant while output-voltage regulation of converter is performed. RPWM method for reducing conducted EMI in single switch three phase discontinuous conduction mode boost converter is presented. The more white noise is injected, the more conducted EMI is reduced. But output-voltage is not sufficiently regulated. This is the reason why carrier frequency selection topology is proposed. In the case of carrier frequency selection, output-voltage of steady state and transient state is fully regulated. A RPWM control method was proposed in order to smooth the switching noise spectrum and reduce it's level. Experimental results are verified by converter operating at 300v/1kW with $5%{\sim}30%$ white noise input. Spectrum analysis is performed on the Phase current and the CM noise voltage. The former is measured with Current Probe and the latter is achieved with LISN, which are connected to the spectrum analyzer respectively.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.07b
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• pp.1719-1721
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• 2005

현재 지구 환경 오염에 관한 관심이 증가하면서, 공해가 없는 자연 에너지원에 대한 연구가 많이 진행되고 있다. 그 중에서도 태양전지 분야중 염료감응형 태양전지(DSC)는 Si계 태양전지와 비교하여 낮은 제조비용등 여러 가지 이유로 최근 많은 연구가 진행되고 있다. 따라서 DSC 발전 시스템의 효율 향상이 요구된다. 본 연구에서는 태양전지 분야 중에서 독립적인 발전설비가 필요한 도서 및 산간 지역에 전력을 안정적으로 공급할 수 있는 소형발전용의 설비로 "전압 및 전류의 피드백을 통한 DSC Cell의 독립전원의 안정화"에 관해 연구하였다. DSC Cell측의 DC입력을 받아 Boost Converter로 승압 후 Full Bridge 인버터를 사용하여 단상 220V 60Hz의 상용전원으로 변환하였다. 여기서는 32Bit 마이크로프로세서인 DSP TMS320F2812의 A/D변환기능을 이용하여 Boost Converter의 스위칭과 Full Bridge 인버터의 스위칭을 제어하였다. 특히 TMS320F2812의 RTC(Real Time Clock)를 이용하여 출력전압의 안정성 향상에 주목적을 두었다. 실험결과 출력단에서는 220V 변동범위 0.2% 주파수 60Hz의 상용전원을 얻었으며, 프로그램의 개선을 통하여 출력전압의 변동범위를 감소시켜야 될 것이다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2014.07a
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• pp.83-84
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• 2014

This paper proposes the development of double conversion Uninterruptible Power Supply using 3-Level Converter/TNPC Inverter. The Rectifier of proposed system is operating not only 3-Level boost PFC but also battery discharger. The Inverter is converting DC voltage to AC voltage. And in terms of the efficiency, 3-Level TNPC inverter is improved compared to the origin 2-Level type. To verify the validity of proposed system, experiments were carried out.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.44 no.5
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• pp.62-70
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• 2007

In this paper, the boost Power Factor Correction(PFC) technique for Direct Torque Control(DTC) of brushless DC motor drive in the constant torque region is implemented on a TMS320F2812DSP. Unlike conventional six-step PWM current control, by properly selecting the inverter voltage space vectors of the two-phase conduction mode from a simple look-up table at a predefined sampling time, the desired quasi-square wave current is obtained, therefore a much faster torque response is achieved compared to conventional current control. Furthermore, to eliminate the low-frequency torque oscillations caused by the non-ideal trapezoidal shape of the actual back-EMF waveform of the BLDC motor, a pre-stored back-EMF versus position look-up table is designed. The duty cycle of the boost converter is determined by a control algorithm based on the input voltage, output voltage which is the dc-link of the BLDC motor drive, and inductor current using average current control method with input voltage feed-forward compensation during each sampling period of the drive system. With the emergence of high-speed digital signal processors(DSPs), both PFC and simple DTC algorithms can be executed during a single sampling period of the BLDC motor drive. In the proposed method, since no PWM algorithm is required for DTC or BLDC motor drive, only one PWM output for the boost converter with 80 kHz switching frequency is used in a TMS320F2812 DSP. The validity and effectiveness of the proposed DTC of BLDC motor drive scheme with PFC are verified through the experimental results. The test results verify that the proposed PFC for DTC of BLDC motor drive improves power factor considerably from 0.77 to as close as 0.9997 with and without load conditions.