A review on flicker-free ac-dc LED drivers for single-phase and three-phase ac power grids

Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs) are coming strongly into the lighting market due to their advantages over conventional lighting solutions: energy efficient, controllable in both light and color, long lifetime, lack of a warm-up period and high power density. Some of these advantages will make LED light...

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Autores: Castro Álvarez, Ignacio|||0000-0002-1151-4205, Vázquez Ardura, Aitor|||0000-0003-3343-4772, Arias Pérez de Azpeitia, Manuel|||0000-0002-0897-8594, González Lamar, Diego|||0000-0002-1208-0250, Hernando Álvarez, Marta María|||0000-0003-0790-235X, Sebastián Zúñiga, Francisco Javier|||0000-0002-9717-866X
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Oviedo (UNIOVI)
Repositorio:RUO. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Oviedo
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:digibuo.uniovi.es:10651/49615
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10651/49615
https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TPEL.2018.2890716
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Ac-dc power conversion
Power factor correction
Single-phase
Three-phase
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Sumario:Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs) are coming strongly into the lighting market due to their advantages over conventional lighting solutions: energy efficient, controllable in both light and color, long lifetime, lack of a warm-up period and high power density. Some of these advantages will make LED light sources to be more than just a lightbulb, being able to transmit data, control light color, hue and intensity or even detect people in indoor environments. Nevertheless, these advantages attributed to LED capabilities are, in reality, achieved thanks to the LED driver. The present work reviews the current stateof- the-art strategies to drive LEDs from ac power grids with special emphasis into removing the most limiting component from the point of view of the lifetime, which is the electrolytic capacitor, while achieving a flicker-free performance of the light output of the LED driver. Moreover, it focuses on analyzing the required regulations, challenges and applicability of LED drivers in both single-phase and three-phase ac power grids