International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics

Volume 119 No. 16 2018, 4397-4403

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DESIGN OF A HIGHLY EFFICIENT PURE SINE

WAVE INVERTER FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC
APPLICATIONS
Sundar S
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bannari Amman Institute of Technology
Sathyamangalam, Erode, Tamil Nadu, India

sundars@bitsathy.ac.in,

Abstract: This paper presents a grid tie inverter for link capacitor. Therefore, it is concluded that the
photovoltaic, PV application with a combination proposed method can he a preferred choice for grid
switching strategy of sinusoidal pulse width modulation, connected buck-boost inverters in distributed
S PWM. The combination switching strategy will be generation systems.
discussed and the performance of the inverter also will
be simulated under grid tie condition in S IMULINK. 1.INTRODUCTION
Besides that, the strategy of sending power into the grid
also will be discussed. The input voltage of inverters In this early stage of marketing solar electric
fluctuates dramatically in distributed generation
power systems to the residential market, it is
applications such as in a wind energy system. Yet, a
high quality ac output is required for grid advisable for an installer to work with well-
interconnection under variable source conditions. established firms that have complete, pre- engineered
Previously developed control strategies mainly focused packaged solutions that accommodate variations in
on improvements under load variations, a dc input of models, rather than custom designing custom
relatively small ripples, etc. This paper proposed a systems. Once a system design has been chosen,
closed-loop sinusoidal PWM control method with real - attention to installation detail is critically important.
time waveform feedback techniques for a grid- Recent studies have found that 10-20% of new PV
connected buck-boost inverter. The control-to-output installations have serious installation problems that
function was derived through steady state modeling
will result in significantly decreased performance. In
based on the power balance condition, which provides
an approach when the output cannot easily he many of these cases, the performance shortfalls could
characterized in a single-stage buck-boost inverter. The have been eliminated with proper attention to the
closed loop control model was studied with a newly- details of the installation.
invented single stage buck-boost inverter circuit.
S imulations verified the method provided fast dynamic Energy crisis are of special attention now a days.
response and robustness under large de voltage
A need for power rating inverter is required to
variations, non-ideal grid voltage, and component
smoothly operate electrical and electronic appliances.
parametric uncertainties. This problem is greatly
rectified, that could produce output with higher Most of the commercially available UPS or IPS is
efficiency of about 97% and reduces the harmonics to a actually square wave or quasi square wave inverters.
greater extend. To reduce the cost, low frequency Electronic devices run by this inverter will damage
transformer is u sed thus proves to be cost effective. due to harmonic contents. Available sine wave
This project proposed a closed-loop sinusoidal PWM inverters are expensive and their output is not so
control method with real-time waveform feedback good. For getting pure sine wave we have to apply
techniques. The controlled inverter achieved a low-THD sinusoidal pulse width modulation (SPWM)
sinusoidal output with a small ac filter and without a dc technique. The pulse width modulation inverter has

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been the main choice in power electronics because of tolerant of large dc voltage fluctuations and ac grid
its simplicity. Sinusoidal pulse width modulation is variations. Specifically, a new closed-loop sinusoidal
the mostly used method in motor control and inverter PWM (SPWM) control method is proposed through
application to generate this signal, triangular wave is the evolution from open-loop, reference feed
used as a carrier signal is compared with sinusoidal forward, to closed-loop control analyses. Advantages
wave at desired frequency. of this method are demonstrated by simulation of a
grid-connected single-stage buck-boost inverter.

1.SPWM TECHNIQUES FOR BOOST 2.GRID CONNECTED PHOTOVOLTAIC

CONVERTERS SYSTEM

Myriads of voltage- and current-mode strategies The photovoltaic (PV) power generation systems
are renewable energy sources that expected to play a
have devoted to the control of inverters in power
promising role in fulfilling the future electricity
electronics. Of those voltage control strategies, space
vector modulation (SVM) was widely used in three- requirement. The PV systems principally classified
into stand-alone, grid connected or hybrid systems.
phase inverters. However, it requires extensive
The grid- connected PV systems generally shape the
calculations, thereby limiting the bandwidth of
control systems. Function approximation can grid current to follow a predetermined sinusoidal
reference using hysteresis -band current controller,
simplify the execution, but also reduces the
which has the advantages of inherent peak current
accuracy. Some improved SVM methods based on
artificial neural networks can reduce computations limiting and fast dynamic performance. Figure
2.1shows the schematic diagram of a grid connected
while still retain accurate results. Random PWM
PV system. It typically consists of two main parts:
addresses the problems of acoustic noise and radio
interference. Optimal switching pattern PWM the PV array and the power conditioning unit (PCU).
The PCU typically includes:
methods were proposed to either reduce the output
filter size or compensate for a non-ideal dc-link
voltage. When large disturbances and uncertainties A Maximum Power Tracking (MPPT) circuit,
exist, these methods need to be combined with which allows the maximum output power of
complicated model reference adaptive systems, H, the PV array.
loop-shaping, and fuzzy logic or neural network A Power Factor (PF) control unit, which tracks
controllers to track desired trajectories or reference the phase of the utility voltage and provides to
models. Current control strategies, like hysteresis the inverter a current reference synchronized
current control (HCC), provide the tightest control of with the utility voltage.
output current in a traditional full-bridge inverter. A converter, which can consist of a DC/DC
However, for single- stage buck-boost inverter, the converter to increase the voltage, a DC/AC
output current usually cannot be directly controlled inverter stage, an isolation transformer to
and these methods introduce lower-order harmonics ensure that the DC is not injected into the
in the output current. Variable structure control was network, an output filter to restrict the
introduced and applied to power electronics with harmonic currents into the network.
the strengths of large signal stability and robustness.
Although this method is extremely useful for tracking
problems, it is not popular due to its theoretical
complexity and difficulty in finding a satisfactory
sliding surface.

Furthermore, sensing of all state variables and

generating of references adds to the cost for a low
power inverter system. Single-stage buck- boost
inverters can operate under wide dc input voltage
ranges and variations, thus presenting a low-cost
solution for small wind energy distributed generation
systems. This project is intended to establish a simple
yet effective control method for such inverters

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square wave inverter, modified sine wave inverter

and pure sine wave inverter. Pulse Width Modulation
Figure 1 : Schematic diagram of Grid (PWM) technique is best for sine wave generation.
Connected – PV System

3.SINGLE PHASE INVERTER TECHNIQUES

There are two types of single phase inverters

i.e. full bridge inverter and half bridge inverter. Half
Bridge Inverter: The half bridge inverter is the basic
building block of a full bridge inverter. It contains
two switches and each of its capacitors has an output
voltage equal to Vdc/2. In addition, the switches
complement each other i.e. if one is switched ON the
other one goes OFF. Full Bridge Inverter: This
inverter circuit shown in Figure 2.2converts DC to
AC. It is obtained by turning ON and OFF the
switches in the right sequence. It has four different
operating states which are based on which switches
are closed. A low cost, microcontroller-based
sinusoidal power source with variable voltage
variable frequency (VVVF) is developed. MOSFET
H-bridge inverter is used in power source with a Figure 2 : Single Phase Full bridge Inverter
standalone LCD as a display system. Sinusoidal pulse
width modulation signals are generated for the driver
circuit of the inverter. 4.PROPOSED SYSTEM

In sinusoidal pulse width modulation (SPWM), Figure 3 shows the block diagram of the
pulses are generated with constant amplitude but proposed PV inverter system, the construction of
having different duty cycles for each period. The which contains H-bridge configuration closed-loop
developed system has been properly worked for an ac SPWM technique, DC- DC converter to utilize power
voltage range of 30–80V RMS and a frequency range between solar panel and inverter, a low frequency
of 40–70 Hz. The power source is having an
incorporated ROM-based LUT which provides
desired performance and additional robustness for
achieving proposed system capability. The system
uses two microcontrollers where one of them
microcontroller is used to generate the proposed
variable frequency sine wave PWM drive and the
other one microcontroller is used for controlling the
stand alone LCD display of the developed power
source.

A single phase inverter is design and transformer, and passive low pass L-C filter.
implemented by using IGBT as switch and the output .
responses are studied. The inverter consists of the
control circuit and the power circuit where the
control circuit is used to generate the gate pulses to Figure 3 : Block Diagram of Proposed PV Inverter
trigger the IGBTs and the power circuit consists of System
IGBTs and according to the duty cycle of the gate
pulses these IGBT‟ s can be turn on and off. The
The proposed single-phase H-bridge inverter
pulse width modulation i.e. PWM technique has been
was first simulated using PSIM software. Figure
used. Single phase inverters are of three types i.e.
shows the schematic diagram of proposed dc-ac PV

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system in PSIM. Since H Bridge is bucking mode shows the sine wave output voltage across the
converter that requires an input voltage higher than resistive load.
the designed output voltage. In this case we
employed boost converter between PV array and Therefore, we implemented a closed-loop
inverter that step-up PV arrays 24V DC voltage into control scheme by a PIC16F628 microcontroller that
senses and provides the necessary output voltage at
every point of the distorted curve and makes a
correction of those points where the curve is
distorted. We termed this as error index of the closed-
loop system. Figure 4.4 shows the final pure sine
wave output voltage of220V (rms) of the inverter and
First Fourier Transform (FFT).The FFT demonstrates
that the fundamental harmonic component lies at
50 Hz and rest of the harmonic components are
negligible. After filtering the output voltage, the total
harmonic distortion (THD) reduced too much lower
level of less than 0.6% .

5.HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION

This proposed inverter hardware design

consists of two major parts: one is control circuit and
other is power circuit. In prototype, inverter power
circuit consists of four IRF3205 MOSFETs in H-
bridge configurations. The inverter circuit divides
into high side and low side. The high side gate at the
H-bridge requires 10V to 12V more than the driven
voltage at the MOSFET. This voltage can be
generated with MOSFET gate driver TLP250.
TLP250 has high reliability factor and its bootstrap
circuit has been accomplished this work and thus to
turn on the high-side MOSFET. The bootstrap
capacitor voltage rise +V above the high-side emitter,
Figure 4: Simulated Output Waveforms

312V DC. This converter topology consists of four

MOSFETs, which requires four sets of switching
signals. SPWM technique is applied to control the
switching of the inverter. Figure 4 shows the
simulated output voltage waveform which is non -
sinusoidal, distorted, and contains excessive
harmonics. Thus, a low pass L-C filter is employed at
the output terminal of the inverter to reduce the
harmonics. After filtering, we obtained 220V (rms),
50Hz pure sine wave output voltage and current
waveform. Based on simulation result a prototype of providing the necessary gate drive voltage.
the proposed PV inverter system has been built and
tested in the lab for validation. The Figure 4.4
illustrates the PWM output waveform of H bridge
inverter that is later converted to pure sine wave
Figure 5. MOSFET and its driver circuit
by employing a passive low-pass L-C filter,
which eliminates the harmonic components of output
waveform and produces a pure sine wave. Figure 5.3 In our design the low frequency transformer is
employed that was built in such a way so that it acts

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as an inductor and the output should have a capacitor

which has greater than 250V, and the capacity of the
capacitor will depend on the inductance of the
transformer. Therefore, the inductance L of
transformer and output capacitor should form an L-C
passive filter. Thus, the use of transformer‟ s
inductance as inductor makes sure to use any extra
inductor and thus, it reduced the cost of the system.
We used a low frequency transformer that is convert to pure AC waves with less harmonics using
available in the local market and gives high low frequency transformer. Similar to the resistive
performances. The transformer is designed to ensure load, inductive and capacitive loads could also be
that the flux density in the core of the transformer is connected to the device and the power factor factors
maintained considerably high which in fact and its harmonics could be determined that is very
minimizes the eddy current loss of the transformer. efficient when comparing with other inverters.
Also, to reduce the price, the inductance of the
transformer is used as an inductor in the filter circuit This paper presents the design and
instead of using an additional inductor. Furthermore, implementation of a pure sine wave inverter for
aluminium shield has been used above the surface of photovoltaic applications. Various advantages exist
the transformer to minimize the eddy current loss. If in the proposed system such as low switching loss,
properly turned on, our designed transformer should high efficiency, low cost, small size and simple
give 95-97% efficient output. control. Simulation and experimental results of the
proposed inverter show that power from PV
array can be converted to pure sine wave output
voltage of 220V (rms) with a THD below 0.6%,
while the FFT analyses confirm that the fundamental
harmonic component lies at 50 Hz and higher
harmonic components are completely eliminated.
Thus it can be concluded that the proposed sine wave
inverter is ideal for the photovoltaic power system in
residential applications.

7.FUTURE SCOPE
Figure 6 : Filter and low frequency transformer
circuit A single-phase transformer less photovoltaic inverter
for residential application will be the future scope of
this project. The inverter is derived from a boost
cascaded with a buck converter along with a line
Figure 7 : Resistive load connected with the inverter frequency unfolding circuit. Due to its novel
circuit operating modes, high efficiency can be achieved
because there is only one switch operating at high
frequency at a time, and the converter allows the use
of power MOSFET and ultra-fast reverse recovery
6.CONCLUSION
diode. It also features a robust structure because the
phase leg does not have a shoot-through issue. And
To demonstrate the inverter a resistive load such the model indicates that small boost inductance will
as light bulb is connected to it and tested it by giving lead to an increase in the resonant pole frequency and
the supply. Input 9V DC supply produces the output a decrease in the peak of Q, which results in easier
voltage of about 220V AC essential to make the bulb control and greater stability. Thus, interleaved
glow brightly. The 9V DC supply is first fed into the multiple phase structure is proposed to have small
boost converter and then H-Bridge inverter which is equivalent inductance; meanwhile, the ripple can be
triggered by the driver circuit using microcontroller. decreased, and the inductor size can be reduced as
The square wave obtained from the MOSFET (H- well. A two-phase interleaved inverter is then
Bridge Inverter) then fed into the filter circuit to designed accordingly.

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