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A Single-Stage High-Power-Factor Constant-Power Electronic Ballast for Metal Halide Lamps

This thesis presents a single-stage high-power-factor electronic ballast for metal halide lamps. The proposed ballast integrates a buck-boost converter, a buck converter and a full-bridge inverter into a single power conversion circuit. The buck-boost converter is designed to be operated at the discontinuous conduction mode (DCM) with a constant duty ratio at a fixed switching frequency to provide a constant lamp power and to achieve a high power factor for a given ac input voltage. The full-bridge inverter supplies a square-wave current for the lamp at a low frequency the same as the line frequency to avoid acoustic resonance. For the universal input voltage ranged from 90 V to 264 V, the lamp remains at the rated power by controlling the duty-ratio of the buck converter.
The circuit operation is analyzed in detail to derive the design equations. An electronic ballast for 70 W lamps is designed and tested. Computer simulations and experimental measurements are provided to verify that the proposed ballast has the merits of a nearly unity input power factor, a high efficiency greater than 82 % and can drive the lamp at a constant power.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0720109-134315
Date20 July 2009
CreatorsYang, Chung-sheng
ContributorsHung L. Cheng, T. J. Liang, T. F. Lin, Jia-You Lee, C. S. Moo
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0720109-134315
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