Hard-switching PWM Inverter Research Articles

Resonant DC Link Inverter for Brushless DC Motor Drive System

The brushless DC motor (BLDC motor) drive is used in several high performance applications ranging from servos to traction drives, due to several distinct advantages such as high power density, high efficiency, fast response and maintenance free. BLDC motor is usually driven by hard switching PWM inverter, which normally has higher switching losses. In recent years, these are several soft switching inverters presented. But there are many disadvantages such as high device voltage stress and large DC link voltage ripple and so on. This paper presents a transformer based resonant dc link inverter for brushless dc motor. The modulation strategies can be classified into two kinds according to the turn-off sequence of the two switches of the pair of switches. Here, dc link voltage notches during chopping switches commutation for all switches working in zero voltage switching condition. The operating principle of soft switching and control scheme are presented. The proposed scheme is verified with the simulation and experimental results.

Novel Soft-Switching Inverter for Brushless DC Motor Variable Speed Drive System

Brushless DC motor has been widely used in industrial applications because of its low inertia, fast response, high power density, high reliability and maintenance-free. It is usually supplied by a hard-switching PWM inverter, which normally has low efficiency since the power losses across the switching devices are high. In order to reduce the losses, many soft switching inverters have been designed. Unfortunately, there are many drawbacks, such as high device voltage stress, large DC link voltage ripple, complex control scheme and so on. This paper introduces a novel soft-switching inverter which generates notches of the DC bus voltage becomes to zero during chopping switches commutation to guarantee all switches working in zero voltage state. The result of this investigation will be very useful for industrial applications.

Selection of carrier waveforms for PWM inverter

In this paper the influence of different carrier waveforms upon the output characteristics of PWM inverter is described in detail. When a triangular carrier waveform is used in hard-switching PWM inverters, harmonics exist in the neighborhood of the output frequency of the inverter output voltage and current due to the dead time. The triangular carrier waveform used in soft-switching PWM inverter will cause difficulties in controlling resonance-trigger time, higher loss in the resonant circuit, and less utilization of the DC bus voltage. If a sawtooth carrier is used in hard-switching PWM inverter, there will be severe distortion in the current waveform. When sawtooth carriers with alternate positive and negative slopes are used in soft-switching PWM inverters, the resonance-trigger time is easy to control, and distortion in the output voltage and current caused by the dead time will not appear.

系統連系高周波2石フライバックトランス絶縁方式ソフトスイッチングPWM正弦波インバータ

This paper presents two novel prototypes of the utility AC power source connected sinewave inverter using the high-frequency two-switch flyback transformer which is more suitable and acceptable for the small-scale solar photovoltaic and fuel cell generator interfaced power conditioners. The proposed sinewave soft-switching PWM power conditioner with a high-frequency AC link has a function of electrical isolation including sinewave hard-switching PWM power conditioner with a high frequency link, which is considered for solar photovoltaic power conditioner and fuel cell generator related power conditioner from the viewpoints of safety and reliability in total system. The discontinuous conduction mode (DCM) operation of the flyback transformer in this circuit system is also introduced to feature a simple, low-cost and high-efficiency topology of the sinewave inverter circuit and digital control implementation. The operating principle of the proposed sinewave soft-switching PWM inverter circuit as compared with sinewave hard-switching PWM inverter are described for the designing of circuit parameters. Moreover, the digitally controlled sinewave PWM control processing scheme is presented herein. Finally, the sinewave soft-switching PWM inverter prototype is actually built and tested to verify the validity of the proposed power conditioner for new energy generation systems.

Performance analysis of three-phase inverters controlled by synchronous delta-modulation systems

Synchronous delta-modulation systems are used to control resonant voltage link inverters, where switching has to be synchronized with the zero crossings of the link voltage. This paper shows that output current harmonic distortion and average switching frequency of such systems can be calculated analytically in spite of the quasistochastic behavior of the modulators output. Under the assumption of constant link frequency and large ratio of link to output frequency, results are derived for three-phase sigma-delta modulation, space-vector based sigma-delta modulation, and current-regulated delta modulation. The results hold for any shape of the inverter input voltage (including DC). The output current harmonic distortion of resonant link inverters is compared with conventional hard switching PWM inverters.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>

Discrete pulse modulation strategies for high-frequency inverter systems

High-performance, high-frequency inverter systems for UPS (uninterruptible power system) applications cannot be easily realized using conventional hard-switched PWM inverter topologies. Adoption of typical soft-switched inverters such as the resonant DC link inverter, require the use of discrete pulse modulation strategies. New controller structures are necessary to cope with stringent voltage regulation and distortion constraints in the presence of unbalanced and nonlinear loads. A controller that utilizes a load current feedforward strategy with a cost function current regulator to achieve excellent transient performance characteristics is presented. Voltage regulation is ensured using a synchronous frame regulator. Detailed simulation and experimental results verifying the concepts are presented. Although this work focuses on soft-switching inverters, the control concepts can be applied to conventional hard-switching inverters as well. >