A true programmable HPF hybrid three-phase rectifier

• Autor(a) principal: Soares, Jurandir de O. [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Outros Autores: Canesin, Carlos A. [UNESP], Freitas, Luiz C. de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo de conferência
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PESC.2008.4592554; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/70589
• topic: Active power-factor correction; Digital control; FPGA device; Hybrid rectifier; Hysteresis modulation; AC generator motors; Computer hardware description languages; Digital arithmetic; Digital control systems; Electric power factor; Electric power factor correction; Field programmable gate arrays (FPGA); Modulation; Power electronics; Rectifying circuits; Alternate current; Control strategies; Control techniques; Digital controls; Diode rectifiers; Field programmable gate array; FPGA devices; Hardware description language; Input currents; Input power factor; International Standards; Mode converters; Output powers; Power factor corrections; Power ratings; Three-phase rectifiers; Total Harmonic Distortion; Electric rectifiers

In this paper is proposed and analyzed a digital hysteresis modulation using a FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) device and VHDL (Hardware Description Language), applied at a hybrid three-phase rectifier with almost unitary input power factor, composed by parallel SEPIC controlled single-phase rectifiers connected to each leg of a standard 6-pulses uncontrolled diode rectifier. The digital control allows a programmable THD (Total Harmonic Distortion) at the input currents, and it makes possible that the power rating of the switching-mode converters, connected in parallel, can be a small fraction of the total average output power, in order to obtain a compact converter, reduced input current THD and almost unitary input power factor. The proposed digital control, using a FPGA device and VHDL, offers an important flexibility for the associated control technique, in order to obtain a programmable PFC (Power Factor Correction) hybrid three-phase rectifier, in agreement with the international standards (IEC, and IEEE), which impose limits for the THD of the AC (Alternate Current) line input currents. Finally, the proposed control strategy is verified through experimental results from an implemented prototype. ©2008 IEEE.