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Design and Development of Power Inverter using Combinational Switches for

Improvement of Efficiency at Light Loads

Pranoti D. Vaidya Prof. P. P. Mahajan

Electrical Department Electrical Department
AISSMS IOIT AISSMS IOIT
Pune, India Pune, India
Pranotivaidya03@gmail.com ppmahajan@gmail.com

AbstractFor standalone residential power system Inverters are designed using peak load capacity keeping in mind. The efficiency of such
inverter on light load is low. The efficiency of inverter can be improved in light load condition using switch combination in inverter. A
comparative analysis of using different individual switching and combination devices will be carried out for specific load. A hardware
realization of inverter for a specific capacity using most efficient switch combination will be done.

Keywords- Microcontroller, MATLAB, Inverter

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I. INTRODUCTION II. LITERATURE SURVEY

Energy is one of the fundamental demands of the modern
society. According to use energy may be of various type likes
electrical, thermal, tidal energy etc. But due limitation of
conventional source of energy it is required to overcome from
these energy sources and make use of nonconventional energy
sources. So for this purpose here we use inverter control
technique for power supply. At the early stage, sun was the
source of energy for generating power. Due to the inadequacy
of the power generated through this source, there was a need
to find other ways to improve the power supply when the
generating station could not meet the demand of the people.As
the technology advances, the hydroelectric generation was
developed, gas firing generating station, and wired tubing
methods of generating power supply were developed. In spite
of all these developments, there was still failure in electrical
power generation as a result of obsolete equipment at the
generating stations.There was still need to find alternative for
solving the problem. As a result of this, some options like
alternators, inverters and others were developed. The electrical
inverter is a high power electronic oscillator. It is so named
because early mechanical AC to DC converters was made to
work in reverse, and thus was inverted, to convert DC to
AC. Typically inverters are designed for peak power
requirements and optimized for a certain operating point.
However, in a stand-alone residential house electrical demand
is highly dynamic and stays at low power levels (below 500W)
about 20 hours in a day Thus, residential electrical demand
characteristics must be taken into account in the inverter
design and control stages in stand-alone applications.
The literature survey carried out related to the study of
improving efficiency of inverter K. Hoffmann [1] provides
simulation and measurement demonstrate that the conducting
power losses of power converters can be minimized by the
parallel connection of corresponding IGBTs and MOSFETs.
For this, four different IGBT-types were analysed together
with a super junction MOSFET. Concerning the cost of
materials the amount of total silicon was not increased
compared to theparallel operation of two MOSFETs.It has
been found out that the current sharing between unipolar and
bipolarsemiconductor strongly depends on several parameters.
The chosen MOSFET and IGBT typesand their conducting
characteristics are very important.
J. Karst [2] provides the hybrid com-bination of MOSFET
and IGBT connected in parallel has been revisited in case of
hardswitching. Due to improvements in semiconductor
performance concerning both IGBTs and MOSFETs a
switching frequency region has been identified in which the
usage of the proposed hybrid switch canbe advantageous at no
extra cost.
M. Soja [3] provides the appropriate design procedures and
methods and usage of modern powerful switches in the power
and digital components in control part, it is possible to
improve the efficiency of power electronics converters. The
complete analysis of converter losses allows to understand of
their origin and points on possible direction of improving
efficiency.

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III. RESIDENTIAL ELECTRICAL DEMAND IV. SYSTEM DESCRIPTION
A residential system for a 2 BHK apartment is considered for
the study. The details of the loads included are shown below in
table 1.
Table 1 Load calculation for a Residential System

Sr.
Specification Quantity Wattage Total
No.
Fluorescent
1 6 30 180
Lights
2 Fan 5 50 250
3 Refrigerator 1 500 500
4 Computers 1 375 375
Figure 2 Block Diagram Of the System
5 Iron 1 1000 1000
DC input source is connected to the both inverter which are
6 Microwave Oven 1 800 800
connected in parallel. One of these low power inverter (<
7 Blender 1 300 300 100W) and another is high power inverter (< 500 W). The load
8 Washing Machine 1 500 500 is directlyconnected to the inverter output. Microcontroller is
9 CD Player 1 30 30 the heart of the control system. According the load demand
controller decide which inverter comes in operation. It is
Total Peak Demand = 5 KW helpful for increasing the efficiency of inverter. Controller
sense the output power and give command to the inverter to
As seen, while the maximum demand is around 5 kW, power operate. When the requirement of output is low then the
demands between 0-500 W constitutes about 85% of the daily controller gives signal to low power inverter and if output is
demand. increased then controller switch the inverter from low power
Considering the demand characteristics, a power inverter to high power inverter. The switching of inverter is done by
designed and optimized for operating at a certain power level the controller and because this the efficiency of the inverter is
will not be a good choice for renewable energy supplied stand- increases.
alone residential house. A typical efficiency curve of an
inverter is shown in Figure 1. As seen, the inverter efficiency V. EXPERIMENTAL SETUP
is lowat light load condition and if the light load efficiency can The aim of experiment is to study the performance of parallel
beimproved, more efficient use of renewable energy sources connected inverters in standalone system. In this setup two
could be achieved. inverters are synchronized through parallel connection and
A parallel switch combination is proposed to improve light operate on different load conditions such as high power and low
load efficiency of the inverter in a stand-alone energy power. The Setup is shown below in figure 3
suppliedresidential power system. Only one of switches will
be active based on instantaneous load current feedback in the
proposed hybrid switch.

Figure 3 System run on Battery

Figure 1 Typical efficiency curve of an inverter
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VI. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS REFERENCES
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2. 500 W

Input Output %
V I Pin V I Pout
12 11.5 138 210 0.19 40 28.9
12 10.5 126 210 0.47 100 79.3
12 15.35 184.3 220 0.68 150 81.4
12 19.4 232.8 220 0.9 200 85.9
12 11.33 135.97 210 0.18 37.8 27.8
12 11.09 133.08 210 0.15 31.5 23.67
12 10.61 127.27 210 0.13 27.3 21.45
12 9.96 119.57 210 0.11 23.1 19.32
12 11.67 140.00 210 0.2 42 30

ACKNOWLEDGMENT
We take this opportunity to thank all the individuals for their
guidance, help and timely support which made us to carry out
the project work in stipulated time. We also thank all teaching
and non-teaching staff members for their patience and special
consideration for the completion of our work. Lastly,we offer
our regard for all those, in particular our parents and who
supported us in any respect during this project work.

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