This paper presents a soft-switching mode rectifier (SSMR) consisting of a power factor correction zero-voltage-transition-pulse-width-modulated (PFC ZVT-PWM) converter and a high-frequency transformer-coupled dc/dc zero voltage switching clamped voltage (ZVS-CV) converter. An easily implemented ZVT soft-switching mechanism is developed to reduce the switching losses and stresses of the power switches in the PFC ZVT-PWM converter. The operations of the proposed SSMR in various modes are analyzed in detail and the associated governed equations are derived. Then accordingly, a quantitative design procedure is developed to find the values of soft-switching circuit components. In the control aspect, the dynamic model of the SSMR is derived and a current waveform controller is designed, such that sinusoidal line current with low harmonics and near unity power factor is obtained. Under this condition, a voltage controller is also designed for yielding good dc output voltage control characteristics.
Validity of the designed SSMR is verified experimentally.Index Terms-Dynamic modeling and control, power factor correction control, switching mode rectifier, ZVT soft-switching.