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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2021

DC Voltage Sensorless Predictive Control of a High-Efficiency PFC Single-Phase Rectifier Based on the Versatile Buck-Boost Converter.

Catalina González-Castaño, Carlos Restrepo, Fredy Sanz, Andrii Chub, Roberto Giral

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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5 authors.

Catalina González-CastañoFacultad de Ingeniería, Ingeniería Mecatrónica de la Universidad Manuela Beltrán, Bogotá 110231, Colombia.ORCID 0000-0001-7205-9907
Carlos RestrepoDepartment of Electromechanics and Energy Conversion, Universidad de Talca, Curicó 3340000, Chile.ORCID 0000-0002-5176-7434
Fredy SanzFacultad de Ingeniería, Ingeniería Mecatrónica de la Universidad Manuela Beltrán, Bogotá 110231, Colombia.
Andrii ChubDepartment of Electrical Power Engineering and Mechatronics, Tallinn University of Technology, 19086 Tallinn, Estonia.ORCID 0000-0002-4253-7506
Roberto GiralDepartament d'Enginyeria Electrònica, Elèctrica i Automàtica, Escola Tècnica Superior d'Enginyeria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 43007 Tarragona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-6582-6741

Funding

Agencia Estatal de Investigación DPI2016-80491Agencia Estatal de Investigación DPI2017-84572-C2-1-RComisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica 15110019,Estonian Research Competency Council PSG206Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico, Tecnológico y de Innovación Tecnológica 1191680,MINCIENCIAS 848-2019Teadmistepõhise Ehituse Tippkeskus ZEBE 2014-2020.4.01.15-0016
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many electronic power distribution systems have strong needs for highly efficient AC-DC conversion that can be satisfied by using a buck-boost converter at the core of the power factor correction (PFC) stage. These converters can regulate the input voltage in a wide range with reduced efforts compared to other solutions. As a result, buck-boost converters could potentially improve the efficiency in applications requiring DC voltages lower than the peak grid voltage. This paper compares SEPIC, noninverting, and versatile buck-boost converters as PFC single-phase rectifiers. The converters are designed for an output voltage of 200 V and an rms input voltage of 220 V at 3.2 kW. The PFC uses an inner discrete-time predictive current control loop with an output voltage regulator based on a sensorless strategy. A PLECS thermal simulation is performed to obtain the power conversion efficiency results for the buck-boost converters considered. Thermal simulations show that the versatile buck-boost (VBB) converter, currently unexplored for this application, can provide higher power conversion efficiency than SEPIC and non-inverting buck-boost converters. Finally, a hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) real-time simulation for the VBB converter is performed using a PLECS RT Box 1 device. At the same time, the proposed controller is built and then flashed to a low-cost digital signal controller (DSC), which corresponds to the Texas Instruments LAUNCHXL-F28069M evaluation board. The HIL real-time results verify the correctness of the theoretical analysis and the effectiveness of the proposed architecture to operate with high power conversion efficiency and to regulate the DC output voltage without sensing it while the sinusoidal input current is perfectly in-phase with the grid voltage.

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AC-DC conversionbuck-boost converterhigh efficiency conversionpredictive controlsensorlessSEPICversatile buck-boost

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PMID34372341
PMCPMC8347053

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