A three-phase single-stage AC–DC wireless-power-transfer converter with power factor correction and bus voltage control

Abstract

Wireless power transfer (WPT) technology has been a research and industrial hotspot with applications in many areas, such as wireless electric vehicle charging system that requires high power, high efficiency, and high power factor (PF). Usually, the power is drawn from a 50/60 Hz single-phase or three-phase ac power source. For a high power application, a three-phase ac source is commonly used. In this paper, a three-phase single-stage WPT resonant converter with PF correction (PFC) and bus voltage control is proposed to improve efficiency and power quality of three-phase input and reduce production cost and complexity for a high power WPT system. A T-Type topology is applied as the common part to perform both the PFC and dc-dc WPT functionalities simultaneously. The proposed converter is much more advantageous than a conventional three-phase two-stage WPT converter with individual PF corrector. In addition, three-phase single-stage topologies have better power quality than single-phase single-stage topologies because zero-sequence components can be naturally eliminated.