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International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive System (IJPEDS)
Vol. 11, No. 3, September 2020, pp. 1398~1405
ISSN: 2088-8694, DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v11.i3.pp1398-1405  1398
Journal homepage: http://ijpeds.iaescore.com
Modeling of single phase off-grid inverter for small standalone
system applications
Rodney H. G. Tan, Chong Boon Chuin, Sunil Govinda Solanki
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, UCSI University, Malaysia
Article Info ABSTRACT
Article history:
Received Feb 9, 2020
Revised Mar 31, 2020
Accepted Apr 21, 2020
This paper presents the detail circuitry modeling of single phase off-grid
inverter for small standalone system applications. The entire model is
developed in MATLAB/Simulink platform using circuitry model. This off
grid inverter consists of a high frequency DC-DC step up converter cascaded
with a full bridge PI control voltage source inverter using SPWM modulation
with LC filter to produce sine wave output. This is a common design used in
many small commercial off-grid inverter. This off-grid inverter model is
capable to produce AC sinewave output voltage at 230 V 50 Hz up to 1 kW
power from a 48 V DC lead acid battery source. The AC sine wave output
waveform achieved a voltage Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) of less than
1 % which is almost a pure sine wave. The conversion efficiency
performance of the off-grid inverter achieved more than 94 %.
The performance of the model is validated by real commercial off-grid
inverter. The performance validation experiment shows that the off-grid
inverter Simulink model conversion efficiency and THD performance are
comparable to the commercial off-grid inverter. This model contributes to
assist small to medium standalone system load and battery sizing design with
greater accuracy.
Keywords:
Off-grid inverter
Commerical inverter
Standalone system
Photovoltaic system
Battery system
This is an open access article under the CC BY-SA license.
Corresponding Author:
Rodney H.G. Tan,
Departement of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,
UCSI University,
No.1, Jalan Menara Gading, Taman Connaught, 56000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Email: rodneytan@ucsiuniversity.edu.my
1. INTRODUCTION
In the past decade solar photovoltaic renewable energy has gained an exponential growth around
the globe up to 181 GW installed worldwide as of the end of 2018 [1]. The is because the ease of installation
and less maintenance due to no moving part involves in the photovoltaic system, besides that, the cost of the
photovoltaic system has been reduced significantly throughout the years are that major factors that favour
photovoltaic system as popular choices in the renewable energy industry. Power inverter is a power
electronics converter that converts DC input voltage to AC output voltage with controlled output voltage
magnitude and frequency. The inverter plays an important role in the renewable energy chain, it is an
indispensable parts of solar photovoltaic and battery energy storage system. Inverter has basically divided
into three distinct categories, there are grid connected inverter, off-grid inverter and On/Off Grid Tie Inverter.
Each inverter has there are own challenges. The off-grid inverter basically uses in standalone system,
the main challenges are to step up low DC battery voltage to AC supply voltage level in either single or three
phase. It must be capable to maintain the AC output voltage magnitude and frequency under various load
conditions within it rated power capacity. On the other hand, the grid connected inverter requires
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the synchronization of phase, frequency and magnitude with the utility grid in either single or three phase.
Apart of grid synchronization, it is also required to control the delivery of real and reactive power as well as
ride through capability during fault. It must also be capable to disconnect itself from the grid when islanding
event occurred. Lastly, the On/Off Tie inverter is capable of operates in both islanded and grid connected
conditions of a microgrid. The earliest written record of the term “inverter” can be traced back to 1925 when
D.C. Prince published an article entitled “The Inverter” in GE Review. However, the idea of converting DC
to AC experiment was proposed and carryout by Alexanderson from GE in 1920, back then he called this
process “inverted rectification”. Prince appears to have been borrowing Alexanderson expression of “inverter
rectification” and created a single English-language word inverter that has been used since then
till present day [2].
Off-grid inverter basically consists of 2 stages of converter, the DC to DC voltage step up converter
and DC to AC inverter with voltage PI control and LC filter to produce sine wave output. Each stage has its
own challenges and there are many works of literature has been published to address these challenges and
research gap for the off-grid inverter. For the first stage, the DC to DC voltage step up conversion is carryout
using the push-pull converter topology through a high frequency step up transformer and rectification. The
high frequency push-pull converter topology has been commonly used as the first stages for many small to
medium commercial off-grid inverter design. The challenges are to step up the low battery DC voltage level
with minimum losses, low footprint and weight of the components. There are literatures proposed an
interleaving push-pull converter which can produce high output voltage from a very low battery voltage
input. The interleaved push-pull converter is a combination of multiple push-pull converters with transformer
secondary rectifier connected in series for achieving the desired output voltage level [3-4]. The shortcoming
is the cost, footprint and weight of this interleaved push-pull will increase with the number of transformers,
switching devices and rectifiers. Another literature proposed to simplify the entire off-grid inverter by using
only one stage of push-pull inverter to step up the voltage at switching frequency of 50 or 60 Hz. This
significantly increases the size and weight of the transformer and the AC output waveform is highly distorted
and no longer sine wave [5-6]. There are other approaches by utilizing single or dual DC-DC boost converter
topology to step the battery voltage to the desired voltage level in place of push-pull topology [7-11]. This
approach reduces the use of step up transformer and rectifier stage. However it suffers from low efficiency
and voltage magnitude stability to step up battery 12 V to 350 V and above. The second stage is the DC to
AC inverter where H-Bridge topology with either MOSFET or IGBT switching devices is commonly
utilized. A Sinusoidal Pulse Width Modulation (SPWM) is use to switch the H-Bridge with LC filter to
produce sinewave AC output waveform [12-13]. A PI feedback control is utilized for voltage or current
control. There is literature proposed to have a very high switching frequency of 100 kHz for the push-pull
inverter to step up the voltage followed by a 20 kHz SPWM switching frequency to switch the H-Bridge
[14]. However, PI feedback control was not included in the off-grid inverter design and high switching
frequency suffer from high switching losses. The off-grid inverter feedback control presented in
the literatures [15-19] assumed a constant voltage source and multi-level DC link [20-21] is supply to the H-
Bridge which does not reflect the actual inverter operation with battery. The inverter H-Bridge plant and
system tracking response were not discuss for the PI controller design [22-27].
In summary the above literatures lack of performance analysis including conversion efficiency, total
harmonic distortion and validation with reference to commercial off-grid inverter. The modeling details are
not provided to make simulation reproducible. This paper intended to present the modeling of a complete
single phase off-grid inverter commonly implements in commercial inverter. It consist of a DC-DC 20 kHz
high frequency step up converter and a H-Bridge inverter with 500 Hz SPWM and voltage PI
feedback control.
2. RESEARCH METHOD
The entire off-grid inverter model is developed using MATLAB/Simulink platform with Simscape
Electrical blocksets. The completed model is then tested and simulate under Simulink environment for
performance analysis. The complete overview of the off-grid inverter model in Simulink is shown in Figure
1. It consists of a battery source, DC-DC step up converter, full bridge inverter with voltage PI control and a
resistive load. This is the common design use for many small to medium commercial off-grid inverter. The
battery model is directly obtained from Simulink Simscape Electrical blockset library and a resistive element
is used to represent the inverter load by setting its resistance value. The off-grid inverter model is capable of
converting a 48 VDC from a battery source to 230 VAC 50 Hz up to 1 kW power rating. The following
sections explain the circuitry model in details.
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Figure 1. The complete overview of the off-grid inverter model in Simulink
2.1. DC-DC step Up converter
The DC-DC step up converter steps up the battery source 48 VDC to 400 VDC. The DC-DC step up
converter utilizes the high frequency push-pull converter to converts the battery source 48 VDC to 48 VAC
at 20 kHz and step up through a high frequency transformer to 400 VAC and then rectified it back to 400
VDC. The detail circuitry model of the DC-DC step up converter section is shown in Figure 2. The push-pull
converter uses two MOSFET switches arrange in push-pull topology connect to the center tap high frequency
transformer. The MOSFET Ron is set to 0.05 Ω. The MOSFET is switch by a pulse generator with 20 kHz
switching frequency at 50% duty cycle. The NOT block provide the 1’s complement output of the pulse
generator. The two MOSFET in the push-pull topology is switch in a complementary manner to push and
pull the current through the center tap transformer to produce 20 kHz AC output. The 2000 μF input
capacitor serves to smooth out the inrush current to the transformer during switching. The high frequency
center tap transformer nominal power and frequency is set to 5 kVA and 20 kHz respectively.
The magnetization resistance and inductance of the high frequency step up transformer is set at 5000 and 500
pu respectively. By taking account of the voltage drop across the MOSFET during switching both primary
winding 2 and 3 that form the center tap is set to 46 Vrms. The secondary winding 1 is set at 400 Vrms.
The high frequency transformer significantly reduces its physical footprint and weight compared with low
frequency transformer with similar power rating. This is a very important criteria for off-grid inverter
hardware implementation.
Figure 2. DC-DC step up converter circuit in Simulink
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2.2. Full bridge inverter with voltage PI control
The full bridge inverter converts the DC output voltage from the full bridge rectifier to AC sine
wave output. The full bridge inverter with voltage PI control in Simulink is shown in Figure 3. The full
bridge inverter is implemented using the universal bridge block from the Simulink Simscape Electrical
blockset library. In the universal bridge block, the number of the bridge is set to 2 and the power electronic
device is set to MOSFET so that the universal block will configure as four MOSFETs H-Bridge circuit. The
H-Bridge is switch and driven by Sinusoidal Pulse Width Modulation (SPWM). The SPWM modulator
carrier frequency is set to 500 Hz. The output of the H-Bridge is then filtered through a LC low pass filter to
produce a sine wave output waveform. The LC low pass filter is designed based on butterworth filter design.
The inductor and capacitor are set to 0.1 H and 100 μF respectively. The output rms voltage of the inverter is
then fed back to a PI controller. The reference voltage for the PI controller is set to 230 Vrms. The output of
the PI controller is fed to the SPWM modulator through 2-Level PWM Generator block.
Figure 3. Full bridge inverter with voltage PI control circuit in Simulink
The PI controller gain was determined by the transfer function tuning method available in the PID
block. The H-Bridge inverter plant model was identified with the data driven method. Two seconds of input
and output data were simulated for model identification. With the availability of the single pole plant model,
the PI controller was tuned to track as close as possible with the plant response [28]. With that in mind, the PI
controller Kp and Ki were set to 0.0041 and 0.0288 respectively. The tracking performance achieved with
almost no overshoot and attaining a settling time of 0.46 s. The identified plant model transfer function and
tuned tracking response are shown in Figure 4.
(a) (b)
Figure 4. Plant model transfer function (a) and tuned tracking response (b)
The voltage Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) is the most important indicator to quantify any
inverter AC output waveform with respect to ideal pure sinewave. The THD delivered from the grid is
strictly governed by electrical utilities around the world. In general, the inverter voltage THD has to be less
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than 5% from IEC or IEEE standard perspective to be considered acceptable [29-30]. Mathematically the
voltage Total Harmonic Distortion can be determined in (1) where V is the voltage magnitude and n is the
harmonic order.
2
2
2
1
n
n
v
V
THD
V
=
=

(1)
The instantaneous output voltage THD measurement provides a quick indication of the inverter
output waveform performance. It is computes by the THD block based on (1) as shown in Figure 3. The THD
block is fed in from the voltage measurement block taken at the output of the inverter. Since the THD block
only output from 0 to 1 so a gain block with 100 is required to convert it to percentage.
3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
The completed off-grid inverter model is simulated in Simulink environment for performance
analysis. The Simulink configuration is the most important aspect to ensure the test and simulation can be
executed successfully. The Simulink configuration setup is configured to ode23tb (Stiff/TR-BDF2) solver
with variable step. The simulation type is set to discrete with a sample time of 2.5 μs per sample. The
following sections detail out the performance analysis of the model including output voltage tracking
response and inverter efficiency performance validation with a commercial off-grid inverter.
3.1. Output voltage tracking stability
The output voltage tracking determines the off-grid inverter model output voltage stability and the
performance of the tuned PI controller to maintain the set output voltage level of 230 V. Figure 5 shows the
off-grid inverter model output voltage magnitude tracking stability. It can be clearly seen that the PI
controller are able to track the output voltage between 227.2 V and 232.9 V, which are -1.22 % and +1.26 %
of 230 V respectively. In summary, the tuned PI controller are able to track at the average output voltage of
230.4 V in less than 0.5 s without any overshoot.
Figure 5. Offgrid inverter model output voltage tracking stability
3.2. Model performance validation with commercial inverter
To validate the performance of this Simulink model is comparable with the commercial off-grid
inverter. A commercial off-grid inverter is setup with 48 VDC battery source and various AC loads is shown
in Figure 6. The commercial off-grid inverter use for validation is from EPEVER SHI1000-42, the
specification of the off-grid inverter power rating is 1000 W, THD of ≤3 % and efficiency of ≥94 %. The
inverter is set to output 230 V 50 Hz. The lead acid 12 V battery is deep cycle gel type from OUTDO with a
capacity of 100 AH and internal resistance of 4 mΩ at full charge. The 48 V battery source consist of eight
12 V battery connected in series of four batteries and parallel of two series set yield a total 48 V of 200 AH
capacity with a total internal resistance of 8 mΩ. The AC loads in the validation experiment are 1 HP aircon
and ten 100 W light bulb with dimmer control. The off-grid inverter Simulink model efficiency performance
is carryout by simulating the inverter under various load condition ranging from 25 W to 1000 W with 230 V
50 Hz in Simulink environment. The efficiency can be determined by the ratio of the input power from the
battery to the output power to the load as shown in Figure 1. The efficiency display shows the output power,
input power and the conversion efficiency with a one second average window through the mean block.
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Similarly, the efficiency performance for the commercial off-grid inverter is carried out by energizing the
light bulb loads ranging from 25 W to 1000 W. The measured input, output power and efficiency are then
save as reference for off-grid inverter Simulink model validation.
Figure 6. Validation experiment setup with commerical off-grid inverter, battery and AC loads
The conversion efficiency performance validation results are shown in Figure 7. It shows a common
characteristic of many commercial inverter efficiency curves. The average efficiency from 500 W onward
which is 50 % of rated capacity for the Simulink model and commercial inverter are 94.8 % and 93.8 %
respectively. The efficiency drop significantly at load power less then 100 W, this is simply because the
conversion losses in power electronic switching devices became more prominent in low power conversion
which is less than 10 % of the inverter rated capacity. The differences in efficiency at less than 100 W could
be possibly caused by different topology, components tolerance and switching losses.
Figure 7. Inverter conversion efficiency performance curve
The overall performance validation experiment begins with recording the commercial off-grid
inverter battery input power, battery state of charge and AC output power with 1 HP aircon load set at 26 °C
running On and Off within the time interval of 60 mins. The recorded data is then saved as reference of the
off-grid inverter Simulink model validation. The same battery source and AC load conditions are then
applied to the off-grid Simulink model for 60 mins. The simulated data is then compared with the recorded
data for validation and performance analysis. Figure 8 shows the overall validation results of output power,
efficiency and battery state of charge. It can be clearly see that the power output of the model and
commercial inverter almost overlapped with each other indicating the model simulation output power is close
to the commercial off-grid inverter data. The conversion efficiency performance of the off-grid inverter
model developed in Simulink is comparable with the commercial off-grid inverter recorded data near rated
power which is around 900 W with an average efficiency around 94% which matches the commercial
inverter product specification. When the aircon load is turn off, the load power is about 25 W where the
average efficiency is about 50% which matches the efficiency performance curve shown in Figure 7, as
explain earlier the differences in efficiency at 25 W of around 15% could be possibly caused by different
topology, components tolerance and switching losses. The Battery State of Charge (SOC) discharge rate also
shows a comparable trend with the real battery with about 1% of SOC difference at the end of the simulated
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data. The battery SOC oscillation is caused by the charge controller charging the battery when the aircon load
is turn off. The validation experiment took place in the evening around 18:00 where there are still some
evening sunlight to generate power from the photovoltaic panel to charge the battery. The slightly higher
discharge rate of the real battery could be possibly caused by the aging of the battery and the different in
SOC measurement method.
The off-grid inverter Simulink model results presented in this paper are fully reproducible, with that
in mind the model in MATLAB/Simulink presented in this paper is made available by the authors for the
reader to download at Mathworks official MATLAB Central File Exchange.
https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/73116-off-grid-inverter-model
Figure 8. Overall Performance Validation between Simulink Model and Commercial Inverter
4. CONCLUSION
A detail circuitry modeling of an off-grid inverter model in Simulink is presented. Each stage of the
off-grid inverter modeling are clearly illustrated and are fully reproducible. The off-grid inverter uses a 20
kHz high frequency transformer push-pull inverter to step up the battery 48 VDC to 400 VAC and convert
back to DC through a full bridge rectifier. The 400 VDC is then converted to 230 VAC 50 Hz sinewave
through H-bridge inverter with Sinusoidal Pulse Width Modulation and LC filter. The output voltage is
control and maintains by PI feedback control. The off-grid inverter model is capable of converting a 48 V
from a lead acid battery source to 230 V 50Hz up to a power rating of 1000 W. It achieved an average
conversion efficiency of ≥94 % and produces sinewave output waveform with THD of less than 1 %. The
performance of the Simulink model is also validated with the commercial off-grid inverter. The Simulink
model presented can be flexibly changed to meet the commercial inverter with similar topology. This model
contributes to assist small to medium standalone system load and battery sizing design with greater accuracy.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors would like to acknowledge the PSIF grant Proj-In-FETBE-040 and conference funding
CONF-NATN-FETBE-207 support from UCSI University research management unit CERVIE so that the
research and publication of this work are made possible.
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Modeling of single phase off-grid inverter for small standalone system applications

  • 1. International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive System (IJPEDS) Vol. 11, No. 3, September 2020, pp. 1398~1405 ISSN: 2088-8694, DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v11.i3.pp1398-1405  1398 Journal homepage: http://ijpeds.iaescore.com Modeling of single phase off-grid inverter for small standalone system applications Rodney H. G. Tan, Chong Boon Chuin, Sunil Govinda Solanki Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, UCSI University, Malaysia Article Info ABSTRACT Article history: Received Feb 9, 2020 Revised Mar 31, 2020 Accepted Apr 21, 2020 This paper presents the detail circuitry modeling of single phase off-grid inverter for small standalone system applications. The entire model is developed in MATLAB/Simulink platform using circuitry model. This off grid inverter consists of a high frequency DC-DC step up converter cascaded with a full bridge PI control voltage source inverter using SPWM modulation with LC filter to produce sine wave output. This is a common design used in many small commercial off-grid inverter. This off-grid inverter model is capable to produce AC sinewave output voltage at 230 V 50 Hz up to 1 kW power from a 48 V DC lead acid battery source. The AC sine wave output waveform achieved a voltage Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) of less than 1 % which is almost a pure sine wave. The conversion efficiency performance of the off-grid inverter achieved more than 94 %. The performance of the model is validated by real commercial off-grid inverter. The performance validation experiment shows that the off-grid inverter Simulink model conversion efficiency and THD performance are comparable to the commercial off-grid inverter. This model contributes to assist small to medium standalone system load and battery sizing design with greater accuracy. Keywords: Off-grid inverter Commerical inverter Standalone system Photovoltaic system Battery system This is an open access article under the CC BY-SA license. Corresponding Author: Rodney H.G. Tan, Departement of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, UCSI University, No.1, Jalan Menara Gading, Taman Connaught, 56000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Email: rodneytan@ucsiuniversity.edu.my 1. INTRODUCTION In the past decade solar photovoltaic renewable energy has gained an exponential growth around the globe up to 181 GW installed worldwide as of the end of 2018 [1]. The is because the ease of installation and less maintenance due to no moving part involves in the photovoltaic system, besides that, the cost of the photovoltaic system has been reduced significantly throughout the years are that major factors that favour photovoltaic system as popular choices in the renewable energy industry. Power inverter is a power electronics converter that converts DC input voltage to AC output voltage with controlled output voltage magnitude and frequency. The inverter plays an important role in the renewable energy chain, it is an indispensable parts of solar photovoltaic and battery energy storage system. Inverter has basically divided into three distinct categories, there are grid connected inverter, off-grid inverter and On/Off Grid Tie Inverter. Each inverter has there are own challenges. The off-grid inverter basically uses in standalone system, the main challenges are to step up low DC battery voltage to AC supply voltage level in either single or three phase. It must be capable to maintain the AC output voltage magnitude and frequency under various load conditions within it rated power capacity. On the other hand, the grid connected inverter requires
  • 2. Int J Pow Elec & Dri Syst ISSN: 2088-8694  Modeling of single phase off-grid inverter for small standalone system applications (Rodney H.G. Tan) 1399 the synchronization of phase, frequency and magnitude with the utility grid in either single or three phase. Apart of grid synchronization, it is also required to control the delivery of real and reactive power as well as ride through capability during fault. It must also be capable to disconnect itself from the grid when islanding event occurred. Lastly, the On/Off Tie inverter is capable of operates in both islanded and grid connected conditions of a microgrid. The earliest written record of the term “inverter” can be traced back to 1925 when D.C. Prince published an article entitled “The Inverter” in GE Review. However, the idea of converting DC to AC experiment was proposed and carryout by Alexanderson from GE in 1920, back then he called this process “inverted rectification”. Prince appears to have been borrowing Alexanderson expression of “inverter rectification” and created a single English-language word inverter that has been used since then till present day [2]. Off-grid inverter basically consists of 2 stages of converter, the DC to DC voltage step up converter and DC to AC inverter with voltage PI control and LC filter to produce sine wave output. Each stage has its own challenges and there are many works of literature has been published to address these challenges and research gap for the off-grid inverter. For the first stage, the DC to DC voltage step up conversion is carryout using the push-pull converter topology through a high frequency step up transformer and rectification. The high frequency push-pull converter topology has been commonly used as the first stages for many small to medium commercial off-grid inverter design. The challenges are to step up the low battery DC voltage level with minimum losses, low footprint and weight of the components. There are literatures proposed an interleaving push-pull converter which can produce high output voltage from a very low battery voltage input. The interleaved push-pull converter is a combination of multiple push-pull converters with transformer secondary rectifier connected in series for achieving the desired output voltage level [3-4]. The shortcoming is the cost, footprint and weight of this interleaved push-pull will increase with the number of transformers, switching devices and rectifiers. Another literature proposed to simplify the entire off-grid inverter by using only one stage of push-pull inverter to step up the voltage at switching frequency of 50 or 60 Hz. This significantly increases the size and weight of the transformer and the AC output waveform is highly distorted and no longer sine wave [5-6]. There are other approaches by utilizing single or dual DC-DC boost converter topology to step the battery voltage to the desired voltage level in place of push-pull topology [7-11]. This approach reduces the use of step up transformer and rectifier stage. However it suffers from low efficiency and voltage magnitude stability to step up battery 12 V to 350 V and above. The second stage is the DC to AC inverter where H-Bridge topology with either MOSFET or IGBT switching devices is commonly utilized. A Sinusoidal Pulse Width Modulation (SPWM) is use to switch the H-Bridge with LC filter to produce sinewave AC output waveform [12-13]. A PI feedback control is utilized for voltage or current control. There is literature proposed to have a very high switching frequency of 100 kHz for the push-pull inverter to step up the voltage followed by a 20 kHz SPWM switching frequency to switch the H-Bridge [14]. However, PI feedback control was not included in the off-grid inverter design and high switching frequency suffer from high switching losses. The off-grid inverter feedback control presented in the literatures [15-19] assumed a constant voltage source and multi-level DC link [20-21] is supply to the H- Bridge which does not reflect the actual inverter operation with battery. The inverter H-Bridge plant and system tracking response were not discuss for the PI controller design [22-27]. In summary the above literatures lack of performance analysis including conversion efficiency, total harmonic distortion and validation with reference to commercial off-grid inverter. The modeling details are not provided to make simulation reproducible. This paper intended to present the modeling of a complete single phase off-grid inverter commonly implements in commercial inverter. It consist of a DC-DC 20 kHz high frequency step up converter and a H-Bridge inverter with 500 Hz SPWM and voltage PI feedback control. 2. RESEARCH METHOD The entire off-grid inverter model is developed using MATLAB/Simulink platform with Simscape Electrical blocksets. The completed model is then tested and simulate under Simulink environment for performance analysis. The complete overview of the off-grid inverter model in Simulink is shown in Figure 1. It consists of a battery source, DC-DC step up converter, full bridge inverter with voltage PI control and a resistive load. This is the common design use for many small to medium commercial off-grid inverter. The battery model is directly obtained from Simulink Simscape Electrical blockset library and a resistive element is used to represent the inverter load by setting its resistance value. The off-grid inverter model is capable of converting a 48 VDC from a battery source to 230 VAC 50 Hz up to 1 kW power rating. The following sections explain the circuitry model in details.
  • 3.  ISSN: 2088-8694 Int J Pow Elec & Dri Syst, Vol. 11, No. 3, September 2020 : 1398 – 1405 1400 Figure 1. The complete overview of the off-grid inverter model in Simulink 2.1. DC-DC step Up converter The DC-DC step up converter steps up the battery source 48 VDC to 400 VDC. The DC-DC step up converter utilizes the high frequency push-pull converter to converts the battery source 48 VDC to 48 VAC at 20 kHz and step up through a high frequency transformer to 400 VAC and then rectified it back to 400 VDC. The detail circuitry model of the DC-DC step up converter section is shown in Figure 2. The push-pull converter uses two MOSFET switches arrange in push-pull topology connect to the center tap high frequency transformer. The MOSFET Ron is set to 0.05 Ω. The MOSFET is switch by a pulse generator with 20 kHz switching frequency at 50% duty cycle. The NOT block provide the 1’s complement output of the pulse generator. The two MOSFET in the push-pull topology is switch in a complementary manner to push and pull the current through the center tap transformer to produce 20 kHz AC output. The 2000 μF input capacitor serves to smooth out the inrush current to the transformer during switching. The high frequency center tap transformer nominal power and frequency is set to 5 kVA and 20 kHz respectively. The magnetization resistance and inductance of the high frequency step up transformer is set at 5000 and 500 pu respectively. By taking account of the voltage drop across the MOSFET during switching both primary winding 2 and 3 that form the center tap is set to 46 Vrms. The secondary winding 1 is set at 400 Vrms. The high frequency transformer significantly reduces its physical footprint and weight compared with low frequency transformer with similar power rating. This is a very important criteria for off-grid inverter hardware implementation. Figure 2. DC-DC step up converter circuit in Simulink
  • 4. Int J Pow Elec & Dri Syst ISSN: 2088-8694  Modeling of single phase off-grid inverter for small standalone system applications (Rodney H.G. Tan) 1401 2.2. Full bridge inverter with voltage PI control The full bridge inverter converts the DC output voltage from the full bridge rectifier to AC sine wave output. The full bridge inverter with voltage PI control in Simulink is shown in Figure 3. The full bridge inverter is implemented using the universal bridge block from the Simulink Simscape Electrical blockset library. In the universal bridge block, the number of the bridge is set to 2 and the power electronic device is set to MOSFET so that the universal block will configure as four MOSFETs H-Bridge circuit. The H-Bridge is switch and driven by Sinusoidal Pulse Width Modulation (SPWM). The SPWM modulator carrier frequency is set to 500 Hz. The output of the H-Bridge is then filtered through a LC low pass filter to produce a sine wave output waveform. The LC low pass filter is designed based on butterworth filter design. The inductor and capacitor are set to 0.1 H and 100 μF respectively. The output rms voltage of the inverter is then fed back to a PI controller. The reference voltage for the PI controller is set to 230 Vrms. The output of the PI controller is fed to the SPWM modulator through 2-Level PWM Generator block. Figure 3. Full bridge inverter with voltage PI control circuit in Simulink The PI controller gain was determined by the transfer function tuning method available in the PID block. The H-Bridge inverter plant model was identified with the data driven method. Two seconds of input and output data were simulated for model identification. With the availability of the single pole plant model, the PI controller was tuned to track as close as possible with the plant response [28]. With that in mind, the PI controller Kp and Ki were set to 0.0041 and 0.0288 respectively. The tracking performance achieved with almost no overshoot and attaining a settling time of 0.46 s. The identified plant model transfer function and tuned tracking response are shown in Figure 4. (a) (b) Figure 4. Plant model transfer function (a) and tuned tracking response (b) The voltage Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) is the most important indicator to quantify any inverter AC output waveform with respect to ideal pure sinewave. The THD delivered from the grid is strictly governed by electrical utilities around the world. In general, the inverter voltage THD has to be less
  • 5.  ISSN: 2088-8694 Int J Pow Elec & Dri Syst, Vol. 11, No. 3, September 2020 : 1398 – 1405 1402 than 5% from IEC or IEEE standard perspective to be considered acceptable [29-30]. Mathematically the voltage Total Harmonic Distortion can be determined in (1) where V is the voltage magnitude and n is the harmonic order. 2 2 2 1 n n v V THD V = =  (1) The instantaneous output voltage THD measurement provides a quick indication of the inverter output waveform performance. It is computes by the THD block based on (1) as shown in Figure 3. The THD block is fed in from the voltage measurement block taken at the output of the inverter. Since the THD block only output from 0 to 1 so a gain block with 100 is required to convert it to percentage. 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION The completed off-grid inverter model is simulated in Simulink environment for performance analysis. The Simulink configuration is the most important aspect to ensure the test and simulation can be executed successfully. The Simulink configuration setup is configured to ode23tb (Stiff/TR-BDF2) solver with variable step. The simulation type is set to discrete with a sample time of 2.5 μs per sample. The following sections detail out the performance analysis of the model including output voltage tracking response and inverter efficiency performance validation with a commercial off-grid inverter. 3.1. Output voltage tracking stability The output voltage tracking determines the off-grid inverter model output voltage stability and the performance of the tuned PI controller to maintain the set output voltage level of 230 V. Figure 5 shows the off-grid inverter model output voltage magnitude tracking stability. It can be clearly seen that the PI controller are able to track the output voltage between 227.2 V and 232.9 V, which are -1.22 % and +1.26 % of 230 V respectively. In summary, the tuned PI controller are able to track at the average output voltage of 230.4 V in less than 0.5 s without any overshoot. Figure 5. Offgrid inverter model output voltage tracking stability 3.2. Model performance validation with commercial inverter To validate the performance of this Simulink model is comparable with the commercial off-grid inverter. A commercial off-grid inverter is setup with 48 VDC battery source and various AC loads is shown in Figure 6. The commercial off-grid inverter use for validation is from EPEVER SHI1000-42, the specification of the off-grid inverter power rating is 1000 W, THD of ≤3 % and efficiency of ≥94 %. The inverter is set to output 230 V 50 Hz. The lead acid 12 V battery is deep cycle gel type from OUTDO with a capacity of 100 AH and internal resistance of 4 mΩ at full charge. The 48 V battery source consist of eight 12 V battery connected in series of four batteries and parallel of two series set yield a total 48 V of 200 AH capacity with a total internal resistance of 8 mΩ. The AC loads in the validation experiment are 1 HP aircon and ten 100 W light bulb with dimmer control. The off-grid inverter Simulink model efficiency performance is carryout by simulating the inverter under various load condition ranging from 25 W to 1000 W with 230 V 50 Hz in Simulink environment. The efficiency can be determined by the ratio of the input power from the battery to the output power to the load as shown in Figure 1. The efficiency display shows the output power, input power and the conversion efficiency with a one second average window through the mean block.
  • 6. Int J Pow Elec & Dri Syst ISSN: 2088-8694  Modeling of single phase off-grid inverter for small standalone system applications (Rodney H.G. Tan) 1403 Similarly, the efficiency performance for the commercial off-grid inverter is carried out by energizing the light bulb loads ranging from 25 W to 1000 W. The measured input, output power and efficiency are then save as reference for off-grid inverter Simulink model validation. Figure 6. Validation experiment setup with commerical off-grid inverter, battery and AC loads The conversion efficiency performance validation results are shown in Figure 7. It shows a common characteristic of many commercial inverter efficiency curves. The average efficiency from 500 W onward which is 50 % of rated capacity for the Simulink model and commercial inverter are 94.8 % and 93.8 % respectively. The efficiency drop significantly at load power less then 100 W, this is simply because the conversion losses in power electronic switching devices became more prominent in low power conversion which is less than 10 % of the inverter rated capacity. The differences in efficiency at less than 100 W could be possibly caused by different topology, components tolerance and switching losses. Figure 7. Inverter conversion efficiency performance curve The overall performance validation experiment begins with recording the commercial off-grid inverter battery input power, battery state of charge and AC output power with 1 HP aircon load set at 26 °C running On and Off within the time interval of 60 mins. The recorded data is then saved as reference of the off-grid inverter Simulink model validation. The same battery source and AC load conditions are then applied to the off-grid Simulink model for 60 mins. The simulated data is then compared with the recorded data for validation and performance analysis. Figure 8 shows the overall validation results of output power, efficiency and battery state of charge. It can be clearly see that the power output of the model and commercial inverter almost overlapped with each other indicating the model simulation output power is close to the commercial off-grid inverter data. The conversion efficiency performance of the off-grid inverter model developed in Simulink is comparable with the commercial off-grid inverter recorded data near rated power which is around 900 W with an average efficiency around 94% which matches the commercial inverter product specification. When the aircon load is turn off, the load power is about 25 W where the average efficiency is about 50% which matches the efficiency performance curve shown in Figure 7, as explain earlier the differences in efficiency at 25 W of around 15% could be possibly caused by different topology, components tolerance and switching losses. The Battery State of Charge (SOC) discharge rate also shows a comparable trend with the real battery with about 1% of SOC difference at the end of the simulated
  • 7.  ISSN: 2088-8694 Int J Pow Elec & Dri Syst, Vol. 11, No. 3, September 2020 : 1398 – 1405 1404 data. The battery SOC oscillation is caused by the charge controller charging the battery when the aircon load is turn off. The validation experiment took place in the evening around 18:00 where there are still some evening sunlight to generate power from the photovoltaic panel to charge the battery. The slightly higher discharge rate of the real battery could be possibly caused by the aging of the battery and the different in SOC measurement method. The off-grid inverter Simulink model results presented in this paper are fully reproducible, with that in mind the model in MATLAB/Simulink presented in this paper is made available by the authors for the reader to download at Mathworks official MATLAB Central File Exchange. https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/73116-off-grid-inverter-model Figure 8. Overall Performance Validation between Simulink Model and Commercial Inverter 4. CONCLUSION A detail circuitry modeling of an off-grid inverter model in Simulink is presented. Each stage of the off-grid inverter modeling are clearly illustrated and are fully reproducible. The off-grid inverter uses a 20 kHz high frequency transformer push-pull inverter to step up the battery 48 VDC to 400 VAC and convert back to DC through a full bridge rectifier. The 400 VDC is then converted to 230 VAC 50 Hz sinewave through H-bridge inverter with Sinusoidal Pulse Width Modulation and LC filter. The output voltage is control and maintains by PI feedback control. The off-grid inverter model is capable of converting a 48 V from a lead acid battery source to 230 V 50Hz up to a power rating of 1000 W. It achieved an average conversion efficiency of ≥94 % and produces sinewave output waveform with THD of less than 1 %. The performance of the Simulink model is also validated with the commercial off-grid inverter. The Simulink model presented can be flexibly changed to meet the commercial inverter with similar topology. This model contributes to assist small to medium standalone system load and battery sizing design with greater accuracy. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The authors would like to acknowledge the PSIF grant Proj-In-FETBE-040 and conference funding CONF-NATN-FETBE-207 support from UCSI University research management unit CERVIE so that the research and publication of this work are made possible. REFERENCES [1] “Renewables 2019 Global Status Report”, Renewables Now (REN21). pp. 40. 2019 [2] E.L. Owen, “Origin of the inverter”. IEEE Industry Applications Magazine, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 64-66, 1996. [3] Wang, J., Li, J. Zhang, W, “Interleaved push-pull converter with very low input and high output”, 2nd Conference on Power Electronics and Intelligent Transportation System, PEITS, pp. 247–249, 2009. [4] Mandeep Anand, Rahul P.P, Eldhose K.P, Linss T Alex, “Design of Interleaved Push Pull Converter for Photovoltaic Systems”, IOSR Journal of Engineering, pp. 73-80, 2018.
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