Journal of Mechatronics, Electrical Power, and Vehicular Technology (Dec 2013)

Design and Implementation of Battery Charger with Power Factor Correction using Sepic Converter and Full-bridge DC-DC Converter

  • Moh. Zaenal Efendi,
  • Novie Ayub Windarko,
  • Moh. Faisal Amir

DOI
https://doi.org/10.14203/j.mev.2013.v4.75-80
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 2
pp. 75 – 80

Abstract

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This paper presents a design and implementation of a converter which has a high power factor for battery charger application. The converter is a combination of a SEPIC converter and a full-bridge DC-DC converter connected in two stages of series circuit. The SEPIC converter works in discontinuous conduction mode and it serves as a power factor corrector so that the shape of input current waveform follows the shape of input voltage waveform. The full-bridge DC-DC converter serves as a regulator of output voltage and operates at continuous conduction mode. The experimental results show that the power factor of this converter system can be achieved up to 0.96.

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