《Novel Family of Single-Stage Three-Level AC Choppers》.pdf

504 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS, VOL. 26, NO. 2, FEBRUARY 2011 Novel Family of Single-Stage Three-Level AC Choppers Lei Li, Member, IEEE, Jundong Yang, and Qinglong Zhong Abstract—The capacitor-clamped base cell is presented. Based on the base cell, a novel family of single-stage three-level (TL) ac choppers is proposed. The converters can directly transfer un- steady high ac voltage with distortion into regulated sinusoidal voltage with low THD. The circuit configuration is constituted of a TL converter, and input and output filters. The topological family includes buck, boost, buck–boost, Cuk, Sepic, and Zeta modes. In order to achieve a reliable TL ac–ac conversion, a double transient voltage feedback control strategy of output voltage and the voltage across the clamp capacitor is introduced in this paper. A prototype Fig. 1. Capacitor-clamped base cell of novel single-stage TL ac choppers. of a 500 VA 220 V ± 10% 50 Hz ac/180–240 V 50 Hz ac converter is presented with the experimental results to prove that the con- verters have four improved advantages simultaneously, including inverters [5]–[15], and then developed in dc–dc converters and the lower voltage stress of power switches, the bidirectional power rectifiers [16]–[20]. So far, multilevel technique used in ac–ac flow, the low total harmonic distortion of output voltage, and the higher input power factor. converters has been mainly limited to ac–dc–ac-type ac–ac con- verters, which usually have many shortcomings such as, too Index Terms—AC choppers, bidirectional power flow, capacitor-