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
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 Switch-Mode DC-AC Inverter

Four quadrants of operation

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 Full-Bridge DC-DC Converter

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 Half-bridge DC-AC Inverter

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

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 Square-Wave Mode of Operation

V
Ao 1

4 Vd
2

V
Ao h
VAo 1
h

Harmonics are of the fundamental frequency

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Effect of Blanking
Time

Results in
nonlinearity

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 Effect of Blanking Time

Effect on the output voltage

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 Synthesis of a Sinusoidal Output by PWM

VAo 1 vcontrol

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

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 Synthesis of a Sinusoidal Output by PWM (2)

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 Half-Bridge DC-AC Inverter

Capacitors provide the mid-point

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 Full-Bridge DC-AC Inverter

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 Full-Bridge DC-AC Inverter

Bipolar Voltage switching

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 Full-Bridge DC-AC Inverter
Unipolar Voltage Switching

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 Full-Bridge DC-AC Inverter
Unipolar Voltage Switching

Harmonic components around the switching frequency

are absent

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 Sinusoidal Synthesis by Voltage Shift

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 Programmed Harmonic Elimination

Angles based on the desired output

IC circuit or microcontroller required
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 Summary of DC-AC Inverters

PWM

square-wave

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