Conversor CA-CC com capacitor comutado com alto fator de potência para o acionamento de LEDs de potência

Abstract

This work presents a study and development of a switched capacitor-based converter to drive high power light emitting diodes (LEDs) fed from the main grid. Unlike to conventional constant current dc drivers, the current through LEDs is provided by a switched capacitor. The proposed converter approach differs from the traditional switched-capacitor-based one, because it uses an inductance to avoid the forced charging and discharging operation, reducing current spikes and EMI in the circuit. The proposed converter provides inherent power factor correction and it can provide isolation by capacitors. It is also proposed the use of two tuned LC filter topologies (parallel LC filter and series LC filter) to reduce the output current ripple, avoiding the use of large electrolytic capacitors. A theoretical analysis of the proposed converter is performed via quantitative and qualitative analysis, which determines the voltage and current efforts in main components and also losses in the converter. A 51 W, 220 V RMS laboratory prototype is designed and tested experimentally. Simulation and experimental results are presented and discussed demonstrating the technical feasibility of the proposed converter. At rated load, the converter features an efficiency of 75.3% and an input power factor of 0.996, while respecting emission limits of harmonics determined by IEC 61000-3-2. For the application of the parallel LC filter, connected in series with LED array, it is obtained output current ripple of approximately 68%. This topology presented better performance, between tested topologies, being able to replace the output electrolytic capacitor.