scholarly journals Simplified five-level voltage source inverter with level-phase-shifted carriers based modulation technique

Author(s):  
Suroso Suroso ◽  
Daru Tri Nugroho ◽  
Abdullah Nur Azis ◽  
Toshihiko Noguchi

<p>A simplified circuit topology of the five-level pulse width modulation (PWM) inverter for DC-AC power conversion with no-isolated DC voltage sources and reduced switching device number is presented in this paper. The inverter circuit is based on the three-level H-bridge inverter configuration. The developed five-level inverter needs only five controlled power switches and four isolated gate drive circuits. Furthermore, the proposed topology does not require bidirectional power semiconductor controlled switches, hence a conventional discrete power MOSFETs or IGBTs can be used to build the inverter circuits. To obtain a better quality output voltage waveform, the level-phase-shifted carriers based sinusoidal pulse width modulation control was applied to produce a five-level PWM voltage waveform. The proposed inverter circuit was examined by using computer simulation with Power PSIM software. The basic principle operation of the inverter circuit was verified experimentally in laboratory using two non-isolated DC voltage sources as the inputs of the inverter’s prototype circuit. Some analysis of inverter’s output waveforms are provided and discussed. <em></em></p>

Author(s):  
Sony Prakarsa Putra ◽  
Zulwisli Zulwisli

This study aims to create a PWM inverter that can drive the Brushless Unidirectional Flow Machine (MASTS). PWM inverters are intended to correct deficiencies in six-step inverters. Inverter is a circuit that is used to convert a DC voltage source into an AC voltage with a certain frequency. The use of inverters is found in electric vehicles. The system often used to control an inverter is a Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) based control, where pulse width is used to regulate speed. The inverter is tested using 3 pairs of mosfets as a switch to control the three-phase output of the inverter. In the inverter, PWM is used to adjust the width of the frequency pulse that will be given to the mosfet. This research used 3 variations of duty cycle 30%, 60%, 90% to determine the effect of MASTS speed on PWM by using a PWM inverter. The results of this study the speed of MASTS can be influenced by changes in duty cycle, with increasing value of the duty cycle, the faster the speed of MASTS, and vice versa. Keywords:Mosfet, Sensor Hall, MASTS, PWM, Inverter.


Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (17) ◽  
pp. 3251
Author(s):  
Suroso ◽  
Daru Tri Nugroho ◽  
Toshihiko Noguchi

This paper presents a new configuration of voltage source inverter with a simplified circuit for generating five-level pulse width modulation (PWM) voltage waveform. Compared with conventional inverter configuration, this circuit is drastically able to simplify the structure and reduce the required number of active switch components. The new inverter circuit is very suitable for the use of open-end connection loads such as open-end winding ac motor drive application. Instead of using separated dc power sources, the new inverter circuit configuration is also possible to utilize only one dc voltage source, so the power supply circuits can be made simpler. Furthermore, to reduce ripples of dc capacitor voltages, the voltage stabilizing circuit of capacitors at the input side was proposed and applied. The stabilizing circuit is capable to work reducing the size of dc capacitors, and maintaining voltage stability of capacitors through charging and discharging operation modes. The working principles of inverter circuit were evaluated and examined by means of computer simulations using PSIM software. In addition, experimental test results of the prototype were also provided. Test results proved that the new five-level PWM inverter operated well generating five-level output waveform with smaller distortion and less voltage ripples of dc capacitors.


Author(s):  
Qasim Al Azze ◽  
Mohammed Hasan Ali

<p>The paper presents a low-cost hardware in the loop based on Arduino. Sinusoidal Pulse Width Modulation (SPWM) designing, analyzing, and implementation is experimented as hardware in the loop. Sinusoidal Pulse Width Modulation implementation via MATLAB\Simulation demonstrates in this work. In this paper, Arduino Mega2560 platform, microcontroller, introduce as hardware. A comparative study of the both techniques is presented. Arduino interfaces with PC Target MATLAB environment. Three phases Voltage Source Inverter directs by the generated pulses that loads with three phases RLC. The obtaining output current and voltage waveform of RLC load of Hardware-in-the-Loop validates to the MATLAB\simulation output waveform. The compering shows the output waveforms are primarily having the same pattern. Arduino consider as the lost cost as microcontroller which could be used in real application.</p>


Author(s):  
Leonardus Heru Pratomo ◽  
F. Danang Wijaya ◽  
Eka Firmansyah

The five-level inverter has been used for many applications in renewable energy systems. Even though its harmonic distortion was lower than the conventional two-level inverter. The five-level converter has some disadvantages such as increasing power semiconductor, complex pulse width modulation control methods, and problem with the voltage balancing of the capacitor. This paper aims to propose a modified five-level inverter based on sinusoidal pulse width modulation using phase shifted carrier to enhancing the capacitor voltage balancing. This modified five-level inverter reduces the overall cost and the complexity of the pulse width modulator. Thus making the proposed control system highly simple. The performance and its controller were validated by means of standard laboratory equipments. The analysis, simulation and implementation result showed better performance of five-level inverter.


This paper presents a new ideology called as boost inverter which converts input DC supply into AC directly without using any filter circuit. The main part of today’s research work is to use solar energy efficiently. While using for AC autonomous loads, the output from the solar panel should not suffer any losses during the various power conversion stages. The conventional voltage source inverter, which is currently in usage, produces an AC output voltage lower than the DC input supply and thus it requires another power conversion stage. It can be used to drive the loads only after removing the ripples using a filter. The main objective of the project is to produce an AC output voltage higher than the DC input voltage in a single stage. Thus the number of power conversion stages is reduced by using boost inverter circuit. Since Pulse Width Modulation technique is used to drive the circuit, the requirement of a filter at the output is not needed


2018 ◽  
Vol 232 ◽  
pp. 04030 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niu Yanshu

Inverter circuit is the most important application of PWM control technology. This paper mainly discusses the unipolar PWM ( pulse width modulation ) control mode of single-phase bridge inverter circuit, and uses MATLAB visual simulation tool Simulink to model the circuit. At the same time, a filter is designed to filter the waveform of the inverted output so that the output waveform can reach a smooth sine wave shape. This simulation not only deepens the understanding of PWM inverter circuit theory, but also lay a good experimental foundation for the study of modern power electronics.


2014 ◽  
Vol 573 ◽  
pp. 143-149
Author(s):  
N. Ismayil Kani ◽  
B.V. Manikandan ◽  
Prabakar Perciyal

—This The Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) DC-to-AC inverter has been widely used in many applications due to its circuit simplicity and rugged control scheme. It is however driven by a hard-switching pulse width modulation (PWM) inverter, which has low switching frequency, high switching loss, high electro-magnetic interference (EMI), high acoustic noise and low efficiency, etc. To solve these problems of the hard-switching inverter, many soft-switching inverters have been designed in the past. Unfortunately, high device voltage stress, large dc link voltage ripples, complex control scheme and so on are noticed in the existing soft-switching inverters. This proposed work overcomes the above problems with simple circuit topology and all switches work in zero-voltage switching condition. Comparative analysis between conventional open loop, PI and fuzzy logic based soft switching inverter is also presented and discussed. Keywords—Zero voltage switching, Inverter, Dc link, PI controller, Fuzzy logic system control ,Modulation strategy, Soft switching


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