High frequency isolation on-line UPS system for low power applications

In this paper, a new high frequency isolation on-line uninterruptible power supply (UPS) system is proposed as a viable solution for low power applications. It's composed by one half-bridge chopper that operates in open loop with fixed duty cycle, a step-up converter that operates in closed loop using the traditional average current mode control and a traditional full bridge voltage source inverter (VSI). The step-up converter control provides power factor correction to the system. The proposed circuit is suitable for the development of low power UPSs (less than 1 kVA) which few batteries are used. In such applications the battery bank voltage, can be 24 V, 36 V or 48 V. Principle of operation, as well as, experimental results for the UPS operating in both, grid and battery modes are presented. Accordingly to the experimental results for a 1 kVA assembled prototype, an efficiency of 81,3% is obtained for grid mode and 89,2% for the battery mode, confirming the effectiveness of the proposed configuration.