(PDF) Development of Square Wave Inverter Using DCDC Boost Converter
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M. Z. Aihsan,
Faculty of Electrical Engineering Technology,
University Malaysia Perlis,
Level 1, Block No. 2, UniCiti Alam Campus, Sungai Chuchuh, Padang Besar, 02100 Perlis.
Email: [email protected]
1. INTRODUCTION
The inverter is known as a type of electronic device which inverts the magnitude of direct current
(DC) input voltage or current from positive to negative and vice-versa at its output [1]. The inverted DC
voltage or current at the output which having a same conducting period for negative and positive magnitude
is recognized as symmetrical alternating current (AC). To be exactly, inverters can invert a DC source to an
AC source in desired magnitude and frequency which eventually transfer power from a DC source to an AC
load [2]. The inverter also known as a DC to AC converter.
There are many types of common inverters topology such as half-bridge, full-bridge, square-wave,
and modified sine wave inverters [3]. Inverters are assembled from electronic switches (MOSFET, IGBT,
and SCR), inductors, diodes, and capacitors. The most basic waveform that produced by an inverter is the
square waveform fo r voltage and current [3]. In order to get a pure sinusoidal AC waveform, output filter is
introduced to the inverter. The output filter has to be designed to meet the specification required for the load
in the aspect of frequency, total harmonic distortion, voltage magnitude, current magnitude, and efficiency
[4]. A LC low-pass filter is implemented as to progressively filter the output of inverter for a better and lower
total harmonic distortion (THD) level [5]. Due to the widely used of solar panel, uninterruptible power
supplies (UPS), adjustable-speed ac motor drives and running ac appliances from an automobile battery,
inverter plays important roles to support every AC source application [6]. The topologies of inverter have
increased since the trend has greatly moved to the renewable energy and high voltage direct current (HVDC)
power transmission [6].
2. PROJECT BACKGROUND
This paper entitled Design and Development of a Square Wave Inverter using Converters. In this
paper, two Boost Converters is used and connected to a common load. Boost Converters convert a DC level
input voltage to another DC level output voltage stepped-up DC level output voltage. The inverter is an
electronic circuit that converts a DC input voltage to an AC output voltage [3], which produces an alternating
square shaped output voltage waveform. The concept of the research is combining two Boost Converters
which are connected to a common load to give an inverter-like output voltage waveform. The expected result
is a square wave output voltage waveform that is a stepped-up voltage level that has both positive and
negative portions of the voltage by proper controlling of two Boost Converters. The alternative inverter
topology that designed and developed in this study is named as Square Wave Boost Inverter (SWBI).
1
fsw (1)
Tsw
The duty cycle of the switch, d during on time will determine the inductor average voltage and
current of the converter and it can be determined by the following equation:
Vo
d (2)
Vs
Continuous Conduction Mode (CCM) for Boost Converters is desirable for most of the DC-DC
conversion applications [7]. The minimum value of inductance is calculated such that the inductor current, IL,
flows continuously above zero. In order words, the boundary of CCM is determined by the value of Imax and
Imin. Thus, the minimum inductance, Lmin, is formulated by
The output capacitance that determine the output voltage ripple which desired by the designers is
given by
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Iout (max) D
C (4)
f sw V out
For the output section, the inverter are connected to the low pass LC filter where it requires some
calculation and the main equation is given by
1
fc (5)
2 RC
3. CONTROL SCHEME
There are varies of a control scheme for inverter such as pulse width modulation (PWM) and
sinusoidal pulse width modulation (SPWM) in order to generate output waveform of the inverter which is
more sinusoidal like. The control scheme no t only can reduce the filter requirements but it also can control
the output voltage amplitude. The only disadvantages are the complex of a control circuit for the switches
and increasing switching losses but this drawback can be reduced by using the programmable controller such
as peripheral integrated circuit (PIC) and a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) [12].
In order to maintain the desired output voltage over a large range of input, the control method of
PWM can generate a modified square wave which based on the amplitude modulation in the PWM [11]. The
modified square wave inverters can eliminate harmonics content which depends on the level of the modified
square wave. For a 3-level modified square wave inverter, it can reduce THD to 23.8% from a square wave
which is 45% in THD [3]. Figure 1 shows an example of 3-level modified sine -wave inverters output voltage
waveform.
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inverter. Figure 3 shows that the proposed circuit design to form an inverter from the boost converter circuit.
The addition of two MOSFETs at the end of boost converter where S3 and S4 to ensure the alternation
process can be made between positive and negative cycle. The specification of switching is shown in Table 1
above. The switching pattern is selected to be in high switching state for boost converter as the nature of
boost converter needs a high switching frequency to level up the low voltage into a higher level of voltage.
4. RESULTS
Simulation is the best tool during study phase as the circuit functionality can be tested before
proceeding to the real hardware. For this paper, MATLAB Simulink tool a used to simulate the modified
controller for this Boost Inverter circuit and all the parameter of the component such as Rdson at the MOSFET
are set well at the simulation page according to the datasheet of the components.
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into a higher voltage magnitude. The second switching scheme needs a low switching of 50 Hz to ensure that
the generated voltage can alternate between a positive and negative side. The advantage of this topology as it
is just used the switching interval of 50 Hz compared to the conventional H-bridge inverter t hat used high
switching state. High switching state will lead to a high switching loss [13]. Table 2 demonstrates the
switching state needed for each MOSFET for the main circuit.
Figure 4 above demonstrate the pulses generated for MOSFET S1 until MOSFET S4. The pulses are
generated based on the fundamental frequency of 50 Hz and the one complete cycle alternation of the
inverter is 0.02 seconds. The high switching state of 100 kHz driving the MOSFET S1 from 0 until 0.01
second and it is set to off state between 0.01 until 0.02 as to let the second circuit of boost converter operate
at that time. In addition, the switching scheme of MOSFET S3 S4 is purposely designed exactly to be tu rned
on and turned off exactly at 0.01 and 0.02 seconds as to ensure the alternating process is
successfully achieved. The same sequencing is dev eloped for the hardware section but using the
microcontroller programming
The behavior of boost inverter output voltage shown in Figure 5 above where it shows that the input
voltage is 12 VDC and the output voltage alternate between +44 VDC and -44 VDC. This result has so me
distortion where the result should get approximately alternation between +48 VDC and -48 VDC. This
behavior is due to some voltage drop in the component, especially at the capacitor. It can be observed that the
switching is successfully alternate between 0.01 and 0.02 seconds.
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Gate Driver
Boost
Inverter
Figure 7 shows the pu lses generated by the gate driver that controlled by the PIC microcontroller
injected into switching devices for controlling parallel boost converter circuit. For the single stage, the
frequency used was 100 kHz and the cycle was same with high switching for parallel boost converter circuit
control. In parallel mode, the high switching count to achieve 0.01s for half cycle was calculated to make
sure the high switching will simultaneously on and off with it low switching. The same term was appl ied to
another half cycle. Figure 7 are the generated pu lses for the four units of MOSFETs and it is the combination
of high switching and low switching state.
As shown above the generated inverter output voltage from the proposed cascaded two units of a
boost converter. It is well known a single boost converter can boost up a DC voltage to a higher level. As
shown in Figure 8, Channel 1 displayed the input voltage approximately 13.6 Vdc thus forming into 52.8 Vac
square wave output voltage as displayed on Channel 2. Compared to simulation results in Figure 5 above, the
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shape of the result is almost the same but the value of output voltage is slightly higher compa red to the
simulation as the digital scope read the maximum/amplitude of the output voltage. In Figure 8, it is
noticeable that there is a voltage spike at the beginning of the square wave. With a proper reading and ignore
the voltage spike, the value of output voltage is alternate between +48 VDC and -48 VDC.
The proposed inverter will undergo harmonic performance as to progressively ob serve the impact of
the combination of DC/DC Boost converter towards the harmonic performance of the inverter. Figure 9
demonstrates the harmonic spectrum using FFT by using Tektronix TPS2014 Digital Oscilloscope.
Figure 8. Input and output voltage for Boost Inverter Figure 9. Harmonic results
The value of harmonic in the developed boost inverter around 48.8% which is slightly higher
compared to the normal square wave inverter mention earlier where it should be in the range of 45%. The
value of harmonic is still acceptable as the difference of range is just 3%.
This circuit is next tested with LC filter to filtering the square wave output voltage. The value of L
and C are decided based on the value of cut-off frequency of 50 Hz and the value of C are set to be constant
and low value as in 4.5 uF and value of inductor 10.7 mH. The value of inductor quite high compared to the
LC filter used in the unipolar inverter as the square wave inverter is hard to be filtered out into sinusoidal due
to the edge of the square wave itself. The filtered output voltage as shown in Figure 10.
It can be observed that the filtering process of the output voltage is nearly unsuccessful as the nature
shape is still in square wave shaped. This is due to the struggle of bending the pure square wave into a
sinusoidal wave shape. Compared to the unipolar inverter, the filtering process is a way easier as there are
many small pulses in the one whole cycle and it will easily bending the curve when entering the LC filter.
The value of peak voltage also d rops compare to the square wave after the filtering process. The suitable
capacitors for filtering process are the Cap Film types as the value of ESR in the capacitors very low and
these criteria will help on reducing the voltage stress.
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5. CONCLUSION
The main target is to assembling an alternative topology in inverter by using two Boost Converters
where the proposed inverter can produce a square wave output voltage waveform that resembled the ou tput
of an inverter. The proposed inverter was being utilized wh en it is using PIC Microcontroller based gate
driver which produce constant gate signal voltage to MOSFETs. The results have proved that the inverter can
provide others mode of operation besides the normal operation that an inverter did. Overall, the proje ct
achieves its goals. This inverter can be further improved as the topology does not need the transformer in
order to level up the small input voltage. The conventional inverter that used H-bridge circuit configurations
needs the transformer to level up the voltage. This configuration simultaneously improves the size of the
inverter as well as the weight of the inv erter itself. The design and development of a square wave inverter
using Boost Converters to perform as an inverter was successful.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support from the University Malaysia Perlis. This
research was carried under Short Term Grant 9001-00574.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AUTHORS
Nur Irwany binti Ahmad received the B.Eng. (Hons) in Electrical System
Engineering from University Malaysia Perlis, Perlis Malaysia and M.Eng in
Industrial Electronics and Control engineering from University of Malaya, Bangsar,
Malaysia, in 2014 and 2016, respectively. In August 2016, she was appointed as a
lecturer in the Faculty of Engineering Technology under Electrical Department,
Universiti Malaysia Perlis, Malaysia.Her research interests include renewable energy
systems and electronics control. She is also a member of BEM malaysia.
Wan Azani Mustafa received degree in biomedical electronic engineering (2013) and
PhD in mechatronic engineering (2017) from university malaysia perlis (UniMAP).
Member of Board Engineer Malaysia (BEM) 2014 and Malaysia Board of
Tecnologist (MBOT) (2017). Published more than 40 academic articles and 1 book.
Now, working as a senior lecturer at University Malaysia perlis, Malaysia. Curr ent
interest includes image processing, biomechanics, intelligence system, and control
system.
Soo Jian Aun received the B.Eng. (Hons) in Industrial Electronic Engineering and
M. Sc Electrical System E ngineering degrees from Un iversity Malaysia Perlis,
Perlis, Malaysia, in 2014 and 2018, respectively. In May 2016, he was appointed as
lecturer in the Faculty of Engineering Technology under Electrical Department,
Universiti Malaysia Perlis, Malaysia. His research interests include alternative power
converter topologies and control strategies for renewable energy integration.
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