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Numerical and Experimental Study of Instability and Bifurcation in AC/DC PFC Circuit

Mohamed ORABI, Tamotsu NINOMIYA

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From the bifurcation viewpoint, this study examines a boost PFC converter with average-current-mode control. The boost PFC converter is considered to be a nonlinear circuit because of its use of a multiplier and its large duty cycle variation for input current control. However, most previous studies have implemented linear analysis, which ignores the effects of nonlinearity. Therefore, those studies were unable to detect instability phenomena. Nonlinearity produces bifurcations and chaos when circuit parameters change. The classical PFC design is based on a stable periodic orbit that has desired characteristics. This paper describes the main bifurcations that this orbit may undergo when the parameters of the circuit change. In addition, the instability regions in the PFC converter are delimited. That fact is of practical interest for the design process. Moreover, a prototype PFC circuit is introduced to examine these instability phenomena experimentally. Then, a special numerical program is developed. Bifurcation maps are provided based on this numerical study. They give a comprehensive outstanding for stability conditions and identify stable regions in the parameter space. Moreover, these maps indicate PFC converter dynamics, power factors, and regulation. Finally, numerical analyses and experimentation show good agreement.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals Vol.E87-A No.9 pp.2256-2266
Publication Date
2004/09/01
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Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications)
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