Chapter 8

Switch-Mode DC-AC Inverters

converters for ac motor drives and

uninterruptible power supplies

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Switch-Mode DC-AC Inverter

Power flow

Block diagram of a motor drive where the power

flow is unidirectional
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Switch-Mode DC-AC Inverter

Power flow

Block diagram of a motor drive where the power

flow can be bi-directional
8-3

Switch-Mode DC-AC Inverter

Four quadrants of operation

8-4

Full-Bridge DC-DC Converter

8-5

Half-bridge DC-AC Inverter

Half-bridge inverter
(One leg of full bridge converter)
8-6

Square-Wave Mode of Operation

V
Ao

4 Vd
2
VAo 1

V
Ao h

Harmonics are of the fundamental frequency

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Effect of Blanking
Time

Results in

nonlinearity

8-8

Effect of Blanking Time

Effect on the output voltage

8-9

Synthesis of a Sinusoidal Output by PWM

Vd
VAo 1 vcontrol

Vtri 2
vcontrol Vcontrol sin 1t
Vcontrol
VAo 1 sin 1t Vd
2
V
tri

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Synthesis of a Sinusoidal Output by PWM (2)

8-11

Half-Bridge DC-AC Inverter

Capacitors provide the mid-point

8-12

Full-Bridge DC-AC Inverter

8-13

Full-Bridge DC-AC Inverter

Bipolar Voltage switching

8-14

Full-Bridge DC-AC Inverter

Unipolar Voltage Switching

8-15

Full-Bridge DC-AC Inverter

Unipolar Voltage Switching

Harmonic components around the switching frequency

are absent
8-16

Sinusoidal Synthesis by Voltage Shift

8-17

Programmed Harmonic Elimination

Angles based on the desired output

IC circuit or microcontroller required
8-18

Summary of DC-AC Inverters

PWM

square-wave

8-19