A three phase three-level pulse width modulation
(PWM) switched voltage source inverter with zero neutral
point potential is designed. It consists of three single-phase
inverter modules and each module is composed of a
switched voltage source and inverter switches. The major
advantage is that the peak value of the phase output voltage
is twice as high as that of the conventional neutral-pointclamped
PWM inverter. Thus, the proposed inverter is
suitable for applications with low voltage sources such as
batteries, fuel cells, or solar cells. Furthermore, three-level
output waveforms of the inverter can be achieved without
the switch voltage unbalance problem. Since the average
neutral point potential of the inverter is zero, a common
ground between the input stage and the output stage is
possible. Therefore, it can be applied to a transformer-less
power conditioning system. The SVS inverter is tested by a
PSIM simulation and hardware is implemented and verified.
PWM Switched Voltage Source Inverter with Zero Neutral Point Potential
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Abstract— A three phase three-level pulse width modulation
(PWM) switched voltage source inverter with zero neutral
point potential is designed. It consists of three single-phase
inverter modules and each module is composed of a
switched voltage source and inverter switches. The major
advantage is that the peak value of the phase output voltage
is twice as high as that of the conventional neutral-point-
clamped PWM inverter. Thus, the proposed inverter is
suitable for applications with low voltage sources such as
batteries, fuel cells, or solar cells. Furthermore, three-level
output waveforms of the inverter can be achieved without
the switch voltage unbalance problem. Since the average
neutral point potential of the inverter is zero, a common
ground between the input stage and the output stage is
possible. Therefore, it can be applied to a transformer-less
power conditioning system. The SVS inverter is tested by a
PSIM simulation and hardware is implemented and verified.
Keywords: Pulse Width Modulation (PWM), Power
Conditioning System (PCS), Neutral Point-Clamped (NPC),
Diode Clamped Inverter, Capacitor Clamped Inverter,
Cascaded H-Bridge Inverter, Switched Voltage Source
Inverter (SVS Inverter)
I. INTRODUCTION
In recent years, industry has begun to demand higher power
equipment. Multilevel inverters have been attracting
increasing attention for power conversion in high-power
applications due to their lower harmonics, higher efficiency,
and lower voltage stress compared to two-level inverters.
Numerous topologies for multilevel inverters have been
introduced and widely studied [1]–[5]. The most important
topologies of these topologies, as shown in Fig. 1, are the
diode-clamped [neutral-point-clamped (NPC)] inverter [6],
the capacitor-clamped (flying capacitor) inverter [7], and the
cascaded H-bridge inverter with separated dc sources. In the
diode-clamped inverter [6] as shown in Fig. 1(a), the dc-bus
voltage is split into three levels by two series-connected
bulk capacitors, and two diodes clamp the switch voltage to
half of the level of the dc-bus voltage. The output voltage
vUN has three states: Vdc/2, 0, and -Vdc/2. It is noted that
although the output voltage vUN is alternating current (ac),
vUG has a direct current (dc) component. Therefore, the
difference between vUN and vUG is the voltage across C2,
which is Vdc/2. Two series-connected switches of the diode-
clamped inverter can achieve the multilevel output
waveforms and reduce the voltage stress to half of the input
voltage. However, the diode-clamped inverter has the
unbalance of the blocking voltage between the inner and the
outer devices due to the difference of the switching
characteristics. This problem results in the larger voltage
stress in the inner devices [7], [8] Furthermore, the diode-
clamped inverter has undesirable features such as a ripple in
the neutral-point voltage due to the current flowing out of or
into the neutral point of the dc link and steady-state
unbalance in the neutral-point voltage due to a variety of
factors including component imperfections, transients and
other non-idealities [9]–[11]. Meynard et al. proposed a
multilevel structure where the device off state voltage
clamping was achieved by using clamping capacitors rather
than clamping diodes as shown Fig. 1(b) [7]. Although this
topology solves the problem of static and dynamic sharing
of the voltage across the switches, it still has the voltage
unbalance problem in the neutral-point voltage and dc offset
voltage of the output. To solve neutral-point balancing
problem, various strategies have been presented [12]–[14].
Although balancing techniques can be used to reduce the
voltage unbalance in the neutral-point there are still
limitations on the maximum amount of reduction [11]. In
case of the dc offset voltage of the output, if the input
voltage (Vdc) can be split into a positive (Vdc/2) and a
negative (-Vdc/2) part with the midpoint connected to the
neutral, the dc offset problem of the output disappears.
These problems appear to be inherent to the topology. The
cascaded H-bridge inverter shown in Fig. 1(c) is an
alternative approach to achieve multilevel waveforms based
on the series connection of full-bridge inverters with a
multiple isolated dc bus [15]. Although the modular
structure solves the voltage unbalance problem, this
approach requires many isolated dc sources and a link
voltage controller.
To solve all these drawbacks of conventional multilevel
inverters, a new three-level pulse width modulation (PWM)
switched voltage source (SVS) inverter is proposed. Fig. 2
shows the circuit configuration of the proposed three-level
PWM SVS inverter. It consists of three single-phase inverter
modules. Each module is composed of a main inverter stage
and a switched voltage source stage which includes two
switches, one flying capacitor, one diode and a small
snubber inductor as shown in Fig. 3. It provides a three-level
output across U and N, i.e., vUN = Vdc, 0, or -Vdc. Therefore,
the peak value of the phase voltage is Vdc , and the peak
value of the line to line voltage is 2 Vdc. Since the phase
voltage of the SVS inverter is twice as high as that of the
conventional NPC inverter, it is well suited for inverters
with a low input voltage such as a fuel cell, battery, and
solar cell. In addition, the SVS inverter does not have the
voltage unbalance problem which is often the case with the
conventional three-level inverters with a divided input
source. Furthermore, since the dc offset of the output phase
voltage is zero, the neutral point of the output load stage can
be connected to the ground, and the SVS inverter is safe
without an electrical isolation. Therefore, it can easily be
applied to a transformer-less power conditioning system
PWM Switched Voltage Source Inverter with Zero Neutral Point
Potential
V. Prakash1
M. Selvaperumal2
1
HOD of EEE 2
Assistant Professor/EEE & Ph.D Scholor
1,2
Priyadarshini Engineering College,Vaniyambadi, India
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Fig. 1. Major topologies of multilevel inverter: diode-
clamped inverter, capacitor-clamped inverter, and cascaded
H-bridge inverter
Fig. 2: Circuit diagram of the proposed SVS inverter.
Fig. 3: Operational principles of switched voltage source:
Node A: Vdc and node A: 0 V.
II. OPERATIONAL PRINCIPLES
A. Circuit Operation
The circuit configuration of the three-level PWM SVS
inverter consists of three single-phase inverter modules as
shown in Fig. 2. Each module can be independently
operated with a single input source. The basic operational
modes of the SVS inverter are shown in Figs. 3 and 4. Since
the flying capacitor C1 is charged to input voltage Vdc when
the switch M1 turns on, voltage across C1 can be assumed to
be a constant voltage source Vdc, and snubber inductor L1
can be ignored. As can be seen in Fig. 3, the voltage of node
A can be changed to input voltage Vdc and 0 V by switch M1
and M3 , respectively. The difference between node A and U
is 0 and - Vdc by switch M2 and M4 , respectively, as shown
in Fig. 4. Therefore, the SVS inverter has four different
Modes and three states of the output terminal voltage vUG
:Vdc, 0, and - Vdc which are twice those of the conventional
NPC inverter. Furthermore, vUG does not have a DC
component.
Mode 1) [Fig. 4(a)]: The output voltage vUN is Vdc and C1 is
charged to Vdc, when switches M1 and M2 turn on. The
snubber inductor limits the inrush current of M1 when the
voltage of C1 is different from Vdc.
Mode 2) [Fig. 4(b)]: The output voltage vUN is 0 V when
switches M1 and M4 turn on.
Mode 3) [Fig. 4(c)]: When switches M3 and M4 turn on, the
diode d1 turns off. In addition, the output voltage vUN is
clamped -Vdc to and the flying capacitor C1 is discharged.
Mode 4) [Fig. 4(d)]: The output voltage vUN is 0 and diode
d1 is off, when switches M3 and M4 turn on.
The same analysis can also be applied to the other modules.
Fig. 4: Operational modes of proposed inverter: vUG = Vdc,
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Fig. 5: Operational modes of proposed inverter:
vUG = 0 V, vUG = - Vdc and vUG = 0 V.
B. PWM Signal Generation
To generate the three-level PWM waveform, the sine-
triangular PWM method [16], [17] is used. The sine-carrier
PWM is generated by comparing the three reference control
signals with two triangular carrier waves. Three reference
sinusoids are 1200
apart to produce a balanced three-phase
output, and the corresponding output signals for a three-
level PWM can be expressed as
Fig. 6: Gate Signals of one of three modules
Fig. 7: Detail of PWM pulses
For the first module, the reference signal, two triangular
carrier waves, and corresponding switch gate signals are
shown in Fig. 5 & 6. When the reference signal is positive,
switch M1 turns on and switch M3 turns off as shown in Fig.
4(a) and (b). In this mode, switch M2 turns on when the
instantaneous value of the reference signal is larger than the
triangular carrier (Vtri,1), and switch M4 turns on when the
instantaneous value of the reference signal is less than the
carrier (Vtri,1). When the reference signal is negative, switch
M4 turns on and switch M2 turns off as shown in Fig. 4(c)
and (d). In this mode, switch M1 turns on when the
instantaneous value of the reference signal is less than
carrier (Vtri,2), and switch M3 turns on when the
instantaneous value of the reference signal is larger than
carrier (Vtri,2).
III. ANALYSIS OF THE PROPOSED INVERTER
In the preceding section, the voltage across capacitor C1 of
the switched voltage source (SVS) stage shown in Fig. 2
was assumed to be a constant voltage source Vdc. However,
the voltage across the capacitor C1, Vc1 is slightly different
from the input voltage source Vdc. The difference between
the voltage across the capacitor C1 and the input voltage
source Vdc may cause an inrush current on the switch M1 and
diode d1 when the switch M1 turns on. To solve this
problem, a small snubber inductor L1 is inserted between the
diode d1 and capacitor C1. However, this small snubber
inductor does not affect the operation of the proposed SVS
inverter. The effect of the small snubber inductor L1 is
considered in this section.
Fig. 8: Operation of the SVS inverter:
Powering mode & Freewheeling mode
Vdc, for Vref,x > Vtri,1
VxN = 0, for Vtri,1 > Vref,x > Vtri,2(1)
Vdc, for Vref,x > Vtri,1
Where,x=U,V,W
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Fig. 9: Buck converter:
Powering mode & Freewheeling mode
Fig. 7 shows the circuit operation when Vref,1 < Vtri,2 and Fig.
8 shows the buck circuit. The SVS stage shown in Fig. 2 is
operated as a buck converter as seen in Figs. 8 and 9.
Therefore, to analyze the operation of the SVS stage
according to the value of the inductor, the simple buck
converter can be considered. If the snubber inductor L1 is
small, the buck converter operates in discontinuous
conduction mode (DCM). When the buck converter is
operated in DCM, its voltage conversion ratio is expressed
as
Where,
L (L0/R0 . TS) = L0.I0/(V0.Ts);
TS Switching period;
D duty ratio;
L0 filter inductance;
R0 load resistance
Based on this equation, the voltage conversion ratio M can
be plotted as shown in Fig. 8. This figure shows that the less
inductance can make the voltage conversion ratio M close to
the unity for a wide range of the duty ratio. In the case of the
laboratory prototype, the modulation index ma is less than
0.8, and the duty ratio of the switch M1 is greater than 0.2 as
shown in Fig. 9. Also, the parameter L is about 0.0005, and
the voltage conversion ratio M at D = 0.2 is 0.976. This
means that the difference between the voltage across the
capacitor C1 and the input voltage source Vdc is 2.4%.
Therefore Vc1, can be assumed to be a voltage source
charged with Vdc. In addition, the design equation of L1 can
be derived from (2) and expressed as
Where,
TS Switching period;
D duty ratio;
R0 load resistance
ma modulation index.
Fig. 10: Voltage conversion ratio in the DCM buck
converter
If the rated output voltage, the rated output current, and the
allowed error of the output voltage are known, the proper
value of inductance L1 and modulation index ma can be
determined from (4).
IV. APPLICATIONS CONSIDERATION
The SVS inverter has three important advantages compared
to the NPC inverter. First, the output phase voltage is twice
as high as that of the NPC inverter. This means that the SVS
can generate twice the output power. Second, the dc offset
voltage of the output is zero. This can make the power
system more reliable and safer. This is very important
especially for high power applications. Finally, the SVS
inverter has no voltage unbalance problem. It can make the
control algorithm simple to drive motor. These advantages
for some applications are considered in the following
section.
Fig. 11: Gate signal of switch M1
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A. Motor Drive System
Conventional two-level PWM inverters and multilevel
PWM inverters generate common-mode voltage or ―neutral
shift effect‖ within the motor windings. This common mode
voltage may build up the motor shaft voltage through
electrostatic couplings between the rotor and the stator
windings and between the rotor and the frame [18], [21].
Moreover, since the conventional inverters have dc offset
voltage between ground and motor neutral point as shown in
Fig. 11, the common mode voltage becomes higher and the
motor line-to-ground voltage may be much higher than its
rated line-to-neutral (phase) voltage. Therefore, the
transformer-less design of the drive with the conventional
PWM inverter may cause the much larger common-mode
leakage current to flow into the ground [18] and cause a
high voltage stress on motor windings, which may
deteriorate the motor insulation life [19], [20], [21].
Although the isolation transformer can solve these
problems, it increases the cost and reduces the efficiency of
the drive, which is undesirable, especially for high-power
systems.
In the case of the proposed SVS inverter, the neutral point of
the motor stator windings can be grounded as shown in Fig.
10 and the motor line-to-ground voltage is identical to its
phase voltage. Therefore, ―neutral shift effect‖ disappears,
and as long as the motor phase voltage is kept within its
rated value during operation, the motor insulation will not
be deteriorated.
Fig. 12: Motor drive system:
NPC inverter & SVS inverter
NPC inverter SVS inverter
Input voltage(Vdc) 400v 200v
Phase
voltage(VUN)
-200v, 0v, 200v
-
200v,0v,200v
VUG 0v,200v,400v
-200v,0v,
200v
Voltage stress of
insulator
400v 200v
Problem
Voltage
unbalance
-
Table 1: Comparison of NPC Inverter & SVS Inverter with
Same Output Power
For example, a 400-V input voltage source can generate 200
V of the peak value of the phase voltage in the NPC inverter
and a 200-V input voltage source can generate 200 V of the
peak phase voltage in the proposed SVS inverter as shown
in Table I. In this case, the phase voltages are the same.
However, the maximum line-to-ground voltages of the NPC
inverter are twice as high as those of the SVS inverter due to
the dc offset voltage of the output. Since the motor stator is
grounded, the line-to-ground voltage is the voltage stress of
the motor insulator as shown in Fig. 11. Therefore, the
voltage stress of the motor insulator in the NPC inverter is
twice as high as that of the SVS inverter.
Fig. 13: PMSM:
Structures of PMSM & structures of stator
NPC inverter SVS inverter
Input
voltage(VDC)
400v 400v
Phase
voltage(VUN)
-200v,0v, 200v -
400v,0v,400v
VUG 0v,200v,400v -
400v,0v,400v
Voltage stress
of insulator
400v 400v
Problem Voltage unbalance -
Table. 2: Comparison NPC Inverter and SVS Inverter with
Same Input Voltage Source
In the case of the same input voltage source, the output
phase voltage of the SVS inverter has twice as high as that
of the NPC inverter as shown in Table II. In this case, the
output voltage of the SVS inverter is twice as high as that of
the NPC inverter. However, the voltage stress of the motor
insulator is the same. Therefore, since the output current of
the SVS inverter is half of that of the NPC inverter with the
same output power, the proposed SVS inverter has less
conduction loss and higher efficiency than the NPC inverter.
Thus, since the proposed SVS inverter has desirable features
such as high reliability, high efficiency, and high safety, it is
expected that the proposed SVS inverter is well suited for
use in the motor drive systems.
B. Power Conditioning System
Recently, the importance of distributed energy generation
and renewable energy sources (e.g., solar-cell or fuel-cell
applications having batteries or super-capacitors) has been
increased due to the exhaustion of fossil energy. The
importance of the power conditioning system (PCS), which
efficiently transforms power from dc to ac, has also been
increased. In general, renewable energy sources have low
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voltage sources. Therefore, to boost the voltage up to the
grid levels, an additional power conversion system which
consists of a dc/dc converter and transformer is required
with the inverter. However, since a PCS is generally an
individually owned single-phase system in the power range
of up to 10 kW, a PCS requires low cost, high efficiency,
and reliability such as transformer-less inverter. If the
conventional inverter topologies which show undesirable dc
offset output voltage are applied to transformer-less PCS,
the electrical isolation between the inverter and the grid
should be considered for safety. However, since the dc
offset voltage of the SVS inverter output is zero, the
proposed SVS inverter can be safely applied to a
transformer-less PCS. Two different types of PCS example
circuits are shown in Fig. 13, respectively. Moreover, since
the output voltage is twice as high as that of the NPC
inverter, the proposed SVS inverter is suitable for
applications with low input voltage sources such as battery
cells, fuel cells, or solar cells. Thus, the SVS inverter is well
suited for the transformer-less PCS as it has many desirable
features such as safety, high reliability, high efficiency, and
low cost.
V. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS
The operational principles of the SVS inverter shown in Fig.
12 (c) have been investigated by Pspice simulation and
experimental results. For the three-level inverter drive, the
sine-triangular wave modulation scheme was used to obtain
a three-level PWM pattern. The laboratory prototype was
fed with 200 VDC and employs a switching frequency of 9
kHz from a triangular carrier wave. This prototype uses a
LC filter with a resistive load of 50Ω. Fig. 14 shows the
simulated experimental results for the simulation circuit
diagram shown in fig 15 and Fig. 16 show the experimental
results of the phase voltages, line to line voltages, and load
currents of the three-level voltage source inverter,
respectively. As can be seen in Figs. 14 and 15, the peak
value of the phase voltages is 200 V and the peak value of
the line to line voltage 2 is 400 V.
Fig. 14: PCS:
Single phase two-line type & single phase three-line type
Fig. 15: Circuit diagram of three phase three level switched
voltage source inverter
These are twice as high as those of the conventional NPC
inverter. Therefore, the larger amplitude of the output
voltage can be obtained compared with the conventional
NPC inverter and it is well suited for an inverter with a low
input voltage source. Moreover, since the phase and line
voltage show three and five levels, respectively, the
multilevel waveform can be implemented by employing the
interconnected modules without isolated dc sources or the
voltage unbalance problem. Furthermore, the proposed
multilevel SVS inverter can considerably reduce the voltage
harmonics and output filter size. In addition, since the
average value of the phase voltages to the ground during one
period is zero, the neutral point can be connected to the
ground and it can be applied to a transformer-less grid
connected photovoltaic (PV) and fuel cell power
conditioning system.
Fig. 16: Simulation results of the switched voltage source
inverter
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Fig. 17: Experimental results of the Switched Voltage
Source inverter
VI. CONCLUSION
A new three phase three-level SVS inverter with zero
neutral point potential is proposed. Its phase voltage and line
to line voltage are twice as high as those of the conventional
neutral-point-clamped PWM inverter and a three-level
waveform can be achieved without the switch voltage
unbalance problem. Therefore, it is well suited for an
inverter with low input voltage such as a fuel cell, battery, or
solar cell input. Furthermore, its average neutral point
potential is zero. Therefore, the proposed SVS inverter can
be widely applied to motor drive systems and transformer-
less grid connected power conditioning systems.
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