Design and Simulation

of a Pulse Width Modulation Sine Wave Inverter

Supervised by

Prepared by
Md. Ahasanul Haque
Imtiaz Ahmed

(0803065)

(0803063)

Dr. Md. Abdur Rafiq

Professor
Dept. of EEE, KUET

Khulna University of Engineering and

Technology
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Outline
Objectives
Why Pure sine wave is better
Inverter switching methods
Square wave method
Multilevel quasi square wave method
PWM method

Proposed method
Designed model
Results
Advantages and Difficulties
Conclusion

Objectives
It is our main concern to propose a simplified
model of
an Inverter by making use of Pulse Width
Modulation
switching technique that can be achieved by
avoiding
complexities for the purpose of achieving a sine
output.
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Why pure sine wave is better?

Less THD (Total Harmonic Distortion).
Suitable for universal application.

Green: Fundamental
Blue: 3rd harmonic
Red: 5th harmonic
Dotted: Resultant wave
Solid: Square wave

Figure 1: Fundamental wave and its harmonics

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Inverter switching methods

Square wave
Multilevel quasi square wave
PWM wave

Square wave
PWM wave
Multilevel quasi square wave
Sine wave (Red line)
Figure 2: Various switching method
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Square wave inverter

V

Figure 4: H-bridge inverter

Figure 3: Switching sequence

for square wave

Figure 5: Voltage across load

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3 level quasi square wave inverter

V
/2

3/2

5/2

/2

3/2

5/2

Volts
/2

3/2

5/2

Figure 7: H-bridge inverter

+V
0

/2

3/2

3
2

7/2

5/2

-V
/2

3/2

5/2

Figure 6: Switching sequence

for 3 level quasi square wave

Figure 8: Voltage across load

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PWM wave inverter

Reference triangular
Wave

Reference sine wave

Modulated
switching signal

Figure 9: Modulation technique for PWM

Volts

Volts

Figure 10: H-bridge inverter

+V

T1 & T4
0

T2 & T3
0

Figure 11: Switching sequence PWM wave

-V

Figure 12: Voltage across load

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Comparison between Various methods

THD
Output wave shape

Figure 13: Output waveform of various methods

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Proposed method
Use of PWM method.
Addition of low-pass filter for fundamental
Volts

frequency.
T1 & T4

T2 & T3
0

Figure 13: Switching sequence PWM wave

Load voltage
Load current

Figure 15: Proposed modified

H-bridge inverter

Figure 14: Expected output waveforms of proposed method

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Designed model
System block diagram

Figure 16: Entire system block diagram.

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Designed model

Figure 17: Simplified system schematic.

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Designed model
Based on the proposed method, a simple PWM inverter is designed in
Simulink (MATLAB R2012a integrated).

Figure 18: Simulink model of designed PWM inverter.

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Simulation results
Output wave shape of designed model:

Figure 19: Output voltage wave shape of designed MOSFET model (filtered)
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Simulation results

Figure 20: Output current wave shape of designed MOSFET model (filtered)
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Simulation results
Output wave shape of standard model:

Figure 21: Output voltage wave shape of standard IGBT model

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Simulation results

Figure 22: Output current wave shape of standard IGBT model

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Simulation Results
Model

THD (%)

Regulation (%)

Designed MOSFET switching

filtered

8.5304

13.12

Standard IGBT switching

unfiltered

15.1256

6.02

Table 1: Comparison between IGBT model and designed MOSFET model

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Advantages
Low THD.
Simpler design
Comparatively low cost than other pure sine wave inverter.
Ideal for all application.

Difficulties
Difficult to design a sharp cut-off Low Pass Filter (LPF). So

Simulink Low Pass Block is designed for simplicity of design.

Comparatively costly than other simple switching inverters.
Voltage regulation increases due to LPF.
Higher efficiency & better regulation difficult to obtain.
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Conclusion
Its difficult to design and implement than simpler

switching inverters, such as, square wave or quasi square

wave inverter.
But its simpler and less costly than a pure sine wave
inverter without PWM method.
Due to LPF, regulation occurs which can be minimized by
designing more complex and sophisticated LPF.
A buck-boost converter can be used to convert lower level
DC voltage to Upper level DC voltage.
Future improvement can further be achieved by
developing filtering mechanism, control mechanism etc.
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YOUR PRECIOUS TIME

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