High Efficiency SEPIC Converter For High Brightness Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) System

This thesis presents an investigation into the characteristics of and driving methods for light emitting diode (LED) lamp system. A comprehensive overview on the lighting development is proposed. The characteristic of the light emitting diode (LED) lamp is described and the requirements of the ballast for the light emitting diode (LED) lamp are presented. Although LED lamps have longer lifetime than fluorescent lamps, the short lifetime limitation of LED driver imposed by electrolytic capacitor has to be resolved. Therefore, an LED driver without electrolytic capacitor in the whole power conversion process is preferred. In this thesis, a single phase, power factor correction converter without electrolytic capacitors for LED lighting applications is proposed, which is a modified SEPIC converter working in discontinuous conduction mode (DCM). Different with a conventional SEPIC converter, the middle capacitor is replaced with a valley-fill circuit. The valley-fill circuit could reduce the voltage stress of output diode and middle capacitor under the same power factor condition, thus achieving higher efficiency. Instead of using an electrolytic capacitor for the filter, a polyester capacitor of better lifetime expectancy is used. An interleaved power factor correction SEPIC with valley fill circuit is proposed to further increase the efficiency and to reduce the input and output filter size and cost. The interleaved converter shows the features such as ripple cancellation, good thermal distribution and scalability.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Department dc:contributor.department

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

2012

Author dc:creator

• Qin, Yaxiao

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Lai, Jih-Sheng

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Meehan, Kathleen
• Yu, Wensong

• SEPIC
• Interleaved converter
• Electrolytic capacitor
• Light emitting diode
• Power Factor Correction
• Long lifetime LED driver

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• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Dc Identifier Other

etd-08232012-143512

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/44422