08-11-2016, 12:51 PM
1466751310-H6typeSinglePhaseFullBridgePVGridTiedTransformerlessInverters.docx (Size: 1.26 MB / Downloads: 6)
ABSTRACT:
Photovoltaic (PV) generation systems are widely employed in transformer less inverters, in order to achieve the benefits of high efficiency and low cost. Safety requirements of leakage currents are met by proposing the various transformers less inverter topologies. In this paper, three transformer less inverter topologies are illustrated such as a family of H6 transformer less inverter topologies with low leakage currents is proposed, and the intrinsic relationship between H5 topology, highly efficient and reliable inverter concept (HERIC) topology. The proposed H6 topology has been discussed as well. For a detailed analysis with operation modes and modulation strategy one of the proposed H6 inverter topologies is taken as an example. Comparison among the HERIC, the H5, and the proposed H6 topologies is been done for the power device costs and power losses. For evaluating their performances in terms of power efficiency and leakage currents characteristics, a universal prototype is built for these three topologies mentioned. Simulation results show that the proposed HERIC topology and the H6 topology achieve similar performance in leakage currents, which is slightly worse than that of the H5 topology, but it features higher efficiency than that of H5 topology.
KEYWORDS:
1. Common-mode voltage
2. Grid-tied inverter
3. Leakage current
4. Photovoltaic (PV) generation system
5. Transformerless inverter
CONCLUSION:
In this paper, based on the H5 topology, a new current path is formed by inserting a power device between the terminals of PV array and the midpoint of one of bridge legs. As a result, a family of single-phase transformerless full-bridge H6 inverter topologies with low leakage currents is derived. The proposed H6 topologies have the following advantages and evaluated by simulation results:
1) The conversion efficiency of the novel H6 topology is better than that of the H5 topology, and its thermal stress distribution is better than that of the H5 topology;
2) The leakage current is almost the same as HERIC topology, and meets the safety standard;
3) The excellent DM performance is achieved like the isolated full-bridge inverter with uniploar SPWM. Therefore, the proposed H6 topologies are good solutions for the single phase transformerless PV grid-tied inverters.