Transformer-less Single Phase H2D4 Inverter with Voltage Controller for Grid-tied PV System

Abstract

Nowadays the transformer-less photovoltaic (PV) grid connected inverter is more popular because of its higher efficiency, compact size and lower cost. The issue of leakage current is a technical challenge, which needs to be controlled carefully. Moreover, many inverter topologies have been proposed to proficient the inverter to control the reactive power to a certain point in order to maintain the power factor (PF) close to one. In case of solar PV system, voltage fluctuation and synchronization with the utility grid is the challenging issue. Therefore, in this paper a new transformer-less inverter is proposed consisting of four diodes and two IGBT switches called H2D4 topology. The proposed topology can overcome the issue of leakage current by maintaining the common mode (CM) voltage constant while maintain low total harmonic distortion (THD) and higher PF. Because of the minimum number of IGBT switches, the leakage current and the conduction loss decrease. Besides, the size of the system is also decreased. Additionally, voltage fluctuation and synchronization are controlled by a newly proposed voltage controlled closed loop system where duty ratio is controlled. The proposed topology and the existing neutral point clamped (NPC) and H6 topologies are simulated in MATLAB/Simulink software, to clarify the theoretical analysis. It is found that the voltage controller closed loop control system of H2D4 inverter topology more efficiently control the voltage fluctuation problems while maintaining a low current THD with higher efficiency and high PF as compared with the system without control topology.