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. / Master of Science

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This master thesis presents the development of a 100 W LED driver, suitable for outdoor and street lighting. In order to match the driver and LED features, special functionalities are added to the electronic system. To obtain a long lifetime, electrolytic capacitor are exchanged by film capacitor, with longer useful lifetime. However, this practice outcome in higher bus voltage ripple, which have to be compensated in the LED current control stage, named as power control stage. To achieve special functionalities, the proposed driver is designed to operate with universal input voltage and dimming capability, being the entire driver control implement in a digital way, increasing significantly the LED driver flexibility. After the literature review, which aimed to evaluate the characteristics of the LED driver topology structure, the two independent stage topology is selected. The buckboost converter operating in discontinuous conduction mode is employed on the power factor correction stage. The power control stage is composed by the DC/DC LLC resonant converter. Once the LED driver topology is defined, each converter is designed, following by the small signal modeling and the control system design. Experimental results of the driver operating with a reduced bus voltage capacitance (25 μF), are presented for a universal input voltage (85 – 265 VRMS) and different dimming levels (100% − 30%). A high power factor (> 0,94) and a medium to high efficiency (> 82%) is noticed in whole operation points, as well as, a reduced flicker (< 10%), being in accordance with the recent released IEEE Std 1789-2015 and IEC61000-3-2 Class C. / Este trabalho apresenta o desenvolvimento de um driver para o acionamento de um módulo de LEDs de 100 W, destinado a iluminação de exteriores ou iluminação pública. De forma a compatibilizar as características do LED com o driver, diferentes funcionalidades e condições de operação são adicionadas ao sistema eletrônico desenvolvido. Para alcançar longa vida útil, o driver desenvolvido substituiu os capacitores eletrolíticos por capacitores de filme. No entanto, essa prática resulta em maiores ondulações da tensão de barramento, as quais são compensadas pelo estágio de controle da corrente dos LEDs. De modo a aumentar as funcionalidades do driver, o mesmo opera com tensão de entrada universal e controle da intensidade luminosa, sendo o sistema de controle do driver implementado de forma digital, aumentando consideravelmente sua flexibilidade. Após revisão da literatura, a qual objetivou avaliar as características das estruturas e topologias empregadas em drivers para LEDs, seleciona-se a estrutura de dois estágios independentes. O conversor buck-boost operando no modo de condução descontínuo de corrente é empregado no estágio de correção do fator de potência. Para o estágio de controle da corrente dos LEDs, utiliza-se o conversor CC/CC meia ponte ressonante LLC. Definida a estrutura topológica, bem como os conversores utilizados, o projeto dos elementos é desenvolvido, seguido da modelagem dinâmica e do projeto do sistema de controle de cada estágio. Resultados experimentais do driver com reduzida capacitância de barramento (25 μF) mostram a sua operação com tensão de entrada universal (85 – 265 VRMS) e controle de intensidade luminosa (100% − 30%). Verificou-se um alto fator de potência (> 0,94) em toda a faixa de operação, rendimento média-alto (> 82%), bem como reduzida modulação de intensidade luminosa (< 10%), estando em conformidade com a IEEE Std 1789-2015 e a IEC61000-3-2 Classe C.