Conversor integrado SEPIC buck-boost aplicado ao acionamento de LEDs de potência em iluminação pública

Abstract

This work presents a study regarding the feeding of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) from mains (grid power) employing electronic drivers with power factor correction. The study aims the development of an LED driver which can be applied to public and street lighting, complying with the typical demands of high power factor, high efficiency, reduced component count, low total harmonic distortion (THD) of input current and which can attain long lifespan, through the substitution of electrolytic capacitors within the power circuit by film capacitors. It is proposed a new converter topology to implement such driver, based on an integration between two stages which share a common static power switch. The SEPIC and buck-boost converters operating in discontinuous conduction mode (DCM) are chosen to make up each of these two stages, the first acting as a power factor corrector and the second as a load currentcontrolling stage. A design methodology which aims the exclusion of electrolytic capacitors is developed, stemming from photometric data which allow the LEDs to be operated with current ripples up to 50% in amplitude, without causing any harm to their photometric performance. A 70 W prototype is presented, whose experimental results demonstrate high power factor (0.998), low current harmonic distortion (3.2%) and high efficiency (90.2%), while employing only long-life metallised-film capacitors on the power circuit. An approach to the possibilities of implementing a digital controller for the proposed novel converter is done, starting from a small-signal model for the converter operating in DCM.