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Analysis and Design of a Bidirectional Cycloconverter-Type High Frequency Link Inverter with Natural Commutated Phase Angle Control

  • Salam, Zainal (Faculty of Electrical Eng., Universiti Teknologi Malaysia) ;
  • Lim, Nge Chee (Faculty of Electrical Eng., Universiti Teknologi Malaysia) ;
  • Ayo, Shahrin Md. (Faculty of Electrical Eng., Universiti Teknologi Malaysia)
  • Received : 2010.07.16
  • Published : 2011.09.20
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Abstract

In this paper a cycloconverter-type high frequency transformer link inverter with a reduced switch count is analyzed and designed. The proposed topology consists of an H-bridge inverter at the transformer's primary side and a cycloconverter with three bidirectional switches at the secondary. All of the switches of the cycloconverter operate in non-resonant zero voltage and zero current switching modes. To overcome a high voltage surge problem resulting from the transformer leakage inductance, phase angle control based on natural commutation is employed. The effectiveness of the proposed inverter is verified by constructing s 750W prototype. Experimentally, the inverter is able to supply a near sinusoidal output voltage with a total harmonic distortion of less than 1%. For comparison, a PSpice simulation of the inverter is also carried out. It was found that the experimental results are in very close agreement with the simulation.

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