Performance Analysis of VSI-fed Single-phase Induction Motor using Fixed Pulse Width Modulation Techniques

Author(s):  
Sirisha Lanka ◽  
Swapna Saladi ◽  
V. U. P Lavanya
Author(s):  
N. Susheela ◽  
P. Satish Kumar

<p>The popularity of multilevel inverters have increasing over the years in various applications without use of a transformer and has many benefits. This work presents the performance and comparative analysis of single phase diode clamped multilevel inverter and a hybrid inverter with reduced number of components. As there are some drawbacks of diode clamped multilevel inverter such as requiring higher number of components, PWM control method is complex and capacitor voltage balancing problem, an implementation of hybrid inverter that requires fewer components and less carrier signals when compared to conventional multilevel inverters is discussed. The performance of single phase diode clamped multilevel inverter and hybrid multilevel inverter for seven, nine and eleven levels is performed using phase disposition, alternate phase opposition disposition sinusoidal pulse width modulation techniques. Both the multilevel inverter are implemented for the above mentioned multicarrier based Pulse Width Modulation methods for R and R-L loads.  The total harmonic distortion is evaluated at various modulation indices. The analysis of the multilevel inverters is done by simulation in matlab / simulink environment.</p>


Inverter is an interface device between a dc source and ac loads which converts DC voltage to a variable voltage, variable frequency AC voltage. While converting, it introduces harmonics in the output of the system which results in additional heating of induction motors. Hence in order to diminish these harmonics, different techniques are introduced viz. external and internal control techniques in which the latter is more efficient. Out of the all proposed methods, the internal control of inverter which is also called as Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) can be achieved either using unipolar modulation technique or bipolar modulation technique. In this paper, the control circuitry to model unipolar and bipolar modulation methods is simulated and their performance is checked on an induction motor and compared in MATLAB Simulink environment.


Author(s):  
R. Palanisamy ◽  
K. Selvakumar ◽  
K. Vijayakumar ◽  
D. Karthikeyan ◽  
S. Vidyasagar ◽  
...  

This paper revolves around the reduction of a number of switches and the sources for a multilevel inverter, for this, we have proposed a transformer-based topology which has helped us in reducing the number of switches from twenty-four to sixteen and also in the reduction of sources from eight to one. The circuit consists of two H-Bridges which are coupled by a single-phase transformer, the topology gives us a liberty of changing the number of levels in accordance to the number of turns in the secondary side of the transformer for example if our ratio is 1:1 the number of levels will be five subsequently if it is changed to 1:2 the number of levels will be changed to seven. As the number of switches is reduced the size and complexity of the circuit is also decreased. In order to improve on the part of switching efficiency, we have used space vector pulse width modulation which is a better method as compared to its counterpart switching methods such as sinusoidal pulse width modulation and multiple pulse width modulation techniques.


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