Vishal Anand, Varsha Singh, Jagabar Sathik, 等. Single-stage Five-level Common Ground Transformerless Inverter with Extendable Structure for Centralized Photovoltaics[J]. 中国电机工程学会电力与能源系统学报(英文), 2023,9(1):37-49.
Vishal Anand, Varsha Singh, Jagabar Sathik, et al. Single-stage Five-level Common Ground Transformerless Inverter with Extendable Structure for Centralized Photovoltaics[J]. CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems, 2023, 9(1): 37-49.
Vishal Anand, Varsha Singh, Jagabar Sathik, 等. Single-stage Five-level Common Ground Transformerless Inverter with Extendable Structure for Centralized Photovoltaics[J]. 中国电机工程学会电力与能源系统学报(英文), 2023,9(1):37-49.DOI: 10.17775/CSEEJPES.2022.02700.
Vishal Anand, Varsha Singh, Jagabar Sathik, et al. Single-stage Five-level Common Ground Transformerless Inverter with Extendable Structure for Centralized Photovoltaics[J]. CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems, 2023, 9(1): 37-49.DOI: 10.17775/CSEEJPES.2022.02700.
Single-stage Five-level Common Ground Transformerless Inverter with Extendable Structure for Centralized Photovoltaics
The paper presents a five-level common ground type (5L-CGT)
transformer-less inverter topology with double voltage boosting. The proposed inverter uses eight switches and two capacitors
charged at input voltage level. The inverter in its basic form acts as a string inverter for low-power PV applications. However
it can be extended to work as a scalable multi-level inverter with higher power handling capability to act as a centralized inverter. The working of the inverter with the sizing of the components is presented with mathematical analysis. The efficiency of the proposed PV inverter is found using thermal losses associated with switches using PLECS software. A prototype of 1 kW has been designed
and experimentation has been carried out. Various loads with a lagging power factor up to 0.6 have been tested with the inverter to establish the usability of the proposed inverter in a worst-case emulated home-use scenario. The total harmonic distortion (THD) at the output has been recorded using a power quality analyzer with voltage and current THD values of 4.5% and 2.5%
respectively
which lies within the limits of IEEE 519 standards. The highest power conversion efficiency of the inverter has been recorded to be 96.20%.