A multilevel energy buffer and voltage modulatorfor grid interfaced microinverters

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A MULTILEVEL ENERGY BUFFER AND VOLTAGE MODULATOR FOR GRID-
INTERFACED MICROINVERTERS
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Submitted to the Department of electronics & communication Engineering in the
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree
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MASTER OF TECHNOLOGY
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I hereby declare that the project work entitled “A MULTILEVEL ENERGY BUFFER AND
VOLTAGE MODULATOR FOR GRID-INTERFACED MICROINVERTERS” Submitted
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the Degree of MASTER OF APPLIED ELECTRONICS is a record of original work done by me
the guidance of Prof.A.Vinayagam M.Sc., M.Phil., M.E., to the best of my knowledge, the
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I am extremely glad to present my project “A MULTILEVEL ENERGY BUFFER AND
VOLTAGE MODULATOR FOR GRID-INTERFACED MICROINVERTERS” which is a
part of my curriculum of third semester Master of Science in Computer science. I take this
opportunity to express my sincere gratitude to those who helped me in bringing out this project
work.
I would like to express my Director, Dr. K. ANANDAN, M.A.(Eco.), M.Ed., M.Phil.,(Edn.),
PGDCA., CGT., M.A.(Psy.) of who had given me an opportunity to undertake this project.
I am highly indebted to Co-Ordinator Prof. Muniappan Department of Physics and thank from
my deep heart for her valuable comments I received through my project.
I wish to express my deep sense of gratitude to my guide
Prof. A.Vinayagam M.Sc., M.Phil., M.E., for her immense help and encouragement for
successful completion of this project.
I also express my sincere thanks to the all the staff members of Computer science for their kind
advice.
And last, but not the least, I express my deep gratitude to my parents and friends for their
encouragement and support throughout the project.

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ABSTRACT:
Microinverters operating into the single-phase grid from solar photovoltaic (PV) panels
or other low-voltage sources must buffer the twice-line-frequency variations between the energy
sourced by the PV panel and that required for the grid. Moreover, in addition to operating over
wide average power ranges, they inherently operate over a wide range of voltage conversion
ratios as the line voltage traverses a cycle. These factors make the design of microinverters
challenging. This paper presents a multilevel energy buffer and voltage modulator (MEB) that
significantly reduces the range of voltage conversion ratios that the dc–ac converter portion of
the microinverter must operate over by stepping its effective input voltage in pace with the line
voltage. The MEB partially replaces the original bulk input capacitor, and functions as an active
energy buffer to reduce the total size of the twice-line-frequency energy buffering capacitance.
The small additional loss of theMEB can be compensated by the improved efficiency of the dc–
ac converter stage, leading to a higher overall system efficiency. TheMEB architecture can be
implemented in a variety of manners, allowing different design tradeoffs to be made. A prototype
microinverter incorporating an MEB, designed for 27 to 38 V dc input voltage, 230-V rms ac
output voltage, and rated for a line cycle average power of 70W, has been built and tested in a
grid-connected mode. It is shown that theMEBcan successfully enhance the performance of a
single-phase grid-interfaced microinverter by increasing its efficiency and reducing the total size
of the twice-line-frequency energy buffering capacitance.

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INTRODUCTION:
Each microinverter di rectly connects one PV module to the grid, hence enabling higher
overall maximum power point tracking efficiency and improved system reliability by eliminating
the potential single point of failure. Two important considerations in the design of microinverters
are converter efficiency and size.
The size of the microinverter can be reduced by increasing its switching frequency.
However, to maintain or enhance efficiency at the higher switching frequencies, advanced
topologies and control strategies are necessary. Recently proposed single-phase microinverter
architectures have been reviewed. Topologies are grouped into single-stage architectures and
multistage architectures.
In a single stage architecture, multiple tasks (e.g., voltage modulation, power modulation,
and output current shaping) are realized in a single power stage. They have low circuit
complexity and simple control, but cannot achieve high performance over a wide operating
range. Multistage architectures have multiple power conversion stages with each stage
performing one or more functions.
Each stage can be optimized individually, thus the overall system performance is usually
better, while the total component counts and control complexities are usually higher
One attractive multistage architecture for microinverters . It comprises a high-frequency
resonant inverter, a transformer, and a cycloconverter. The resonant inverter is controlled in such
a manner that it produces a highfrequency- sinusoidal current with its amplitude modulated at the
line frequency (60 Hz in the U.S.).

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The high-frequency transformer steps up the voltage, and the cycloconverter converts the
high-frequency current into a sinusoidal line-frequency current, which is injected into the grid.
Output power can be contr lled by a combination of frequency control and phase-shift control.
The twice-line-frequency energy buffering in the circuit of and in many other
microinverter architectures— is provided by the input capacitor CIN though other methods are
possible .Related microinverter architectures likewise incorporate a high-frequency inverter and
step-up transformation, with subsequent transformation of energy to the line voltage.
However, all such architectures must buffer the twice-line-frequency energy and must
vary the amplitude of the high-frequency output current across a very wide range (e.g., in
proportion to the line voltage and the average power delivered by the inverter), posing design
and control challenges

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EXISTING SYSTEM:
It comprises a high-frequency resonant inverter, a transformer, and a cycloconverter. The
resonant inverter is controlled in such a manner that it produces a high frequency-sinusoidal
current with its amplitude modulated at the line frequency. The high-frequency transformer steps
up the voltage, and the cycloconverter converts the high-frequency current into a sinusoidal line-
frequency current, which is injected into the grid.
The power converter implements a new type of third-port topology, where the energy
storage (buffer) block is placed “in series” with the line voltage interface. At a very high level,
the converter operation is closely related to the ac-link family of topologies. Here, the switching
waveforms of all three series-connected blocks are responsible for generating the intermediate
high-frequency current waveform.

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PROPOSED SYSTEM:
This paper introduces a new technique to address the aforementioned challenges. The
new technique shares some of the benefits of both variable-topology cascade converter structures
and switched-capacitor energy buffers (SCEB), while enabling very high efficiency to be
maintained. The new power converter architecture incorporates a multilevel energy buffer and
voltage modulator (MEB) to achieve compression of the high-frequency inverter operating
range, thereby improving the efficiency of the high-frequency-link dc–ac converter stage. The
MEB also partially replaces the original bulk input capacitor and provides the twice-line-
frequency energy buffering between dc and ac.

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ADVANTAGES:

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BLOCK DIAGRAM:

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TOOLS AND SOFTWARE USED:
 MPLAB – microcontroller programming.
 ORCAD – circuit layout.
 MATLAB/Simulink – Simulation

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APPLICATIONS:
 Photovoltaic power systems.

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CONCLUSION:
This paper introduces a MEB stage for grid-interfaced microinverters. The MEB
significantly reduces the voltage conversion range that the high-frequency dc–ac converter
portion of the microinverter must operate over by stepping its input voltage in pace with the line
voltage. This enables the dc–ac converter stage to operate over a narrower operating range and
achieve higher efficiency. The MEB also functions as an active energy buffer, which helps to
reduce the total size of the twiceline- frequency energy buffering capacitance, creating space for
the additional components in the MEB. A prototype 70-WMEB microinverter, designed for 27 to
38 Vdc input and 230 Vrms ac output, has been built, and used to validate the operational
principles and performance advantages of the MEB microinverter. This MEB-based architecture
can be applied more broadly to converters interfacing between low-voltage dc and the
singlephase ac grid.

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