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N E C A M S I D DC/AC Pure Sine Wave Inverter Jim Doucet Dan Eggleston Jeremy Shaw MQP Terms ABC 20062007 Advisor: Professor Stephen J. Bitar Sponsor: NECAMSID Table of Contents Introduction .1 Problem Statement Background .3 Inverters and Applications .5 Pulse Width Modulation Bubba Oscillator HBridge Configuration 12 MOSFET Drivers 14 Circuit Protection and Snubbers 15 Filtering 16 Methodology .17 Sine Wave Generator .18 Carrier Wave Generator 20 Pulse Width Modulation 24 HBridge 27 Filter 30 Implementing the Design 32 Difficulties .33 Sine Wave Generator 33 Filter Design .35 Putting the Design to Work 37 Results 38 Recommendations 40 Conclusion 42 References .44 Appendix A: Switching Frequency Charts 46 Appendix B: Circuit Diagram 47 Appendix C: Flowchart 49 Appendix D: PCB Board Diagrams 50 Appendix E: Parts List 52 Index of Figures Commercial 200 Watt Inverter Square, Modified, and Pure Sine Wave Pulse Width Modulation Bubba Oscillator Schematic RC Filter Schematic 10 Signal at P1 11 HBridge Configuration using NChannel MOSFETs 12 NChannel MOSFET 14 Inductive Load Circuit 15 Inductive Load Circuit with Snubber .15 Inductive Load Circuit with Snubber and Zener Diode 15 Block Diagram 17 Bubba Oscillator Circuit 18 Oscillator Signal at P2 19 Oscillator Signal at P5 19 Triangle Wave Generator 20 Square Wave Output .21 Generated Triangle Wave .22 Square and Triangle Waves 22 PWM Signal 24 Sine Reference, Triangle Wave, and square wave reference 25 Modified triangle wave, overlaid with sine reference 25 PWM signal and reference sine 26 Trilevel PWM signal .26 HBridge with MOSFET Drivers 27 Typical Connection for IR2110 MOSFET Driver 28 Frequency plot of losses 30 New Sine Wave Oscillator Circuit Diagram 34 Two Pole Output Filter 35 Project on PCB Board .36 Closed Loop Flow Chart 37 NonInverting Amplifier Block 38 Frequency plot of MOSFET losses 41 Frequency plot of inductor losses (resistive) 41 Introduction This report focuses on DC to AC power inverters, which aim to efficiently transform a DC power source to a high voltage AC source, similar to power that would be available at an electrical wall outlet. Inverters are used for many applications, as in situations where low voltage DC sources such as batteries, solar panels or fuel cells must be converted so that devices can run off of AC power. One example of such a situation would be converting electrical power from a car battery to run a laptop, TV or cell phone The method in which the low voltage DC power is inverted, is completed in two steps. The first being the conversion of the low voltage DC power to a high voltage DC source, and the second step being the conversion of the high DC source to an AC waveform using pulse width modulation. Another method to complete the desired outcome would be to first convert the low voltage DC power to AC, and then use a transformer to boost the voltage to 120 volts. This project focused on the first method described and specifically the transformation of a high voltage DC source into an AC output Of the different DCAC inverters on the market today there are essentially two different forms of AC output generated: modified sine wave, and pure sine wave A modified sine wave can be seen as more of a square wave than a sine wave; it passes the high DC voltage for specified amounts of time so that the average power and rms voltage are the same as if it were a sine wave. These types of inverters are much cheaper than pure sine wave inverters and therefore are attractive alternatives Pure sine wave inverters, on the other hand, produce a sine wave output identical to the power coming out of an electrical outlet. These devices are able to run more sensitive devices that a modified sine wave may cause damage to such as: laser printers, laptop computers, power tools, digital clocks and medical equipment. This form of AC power also reduces audible noise in devices such as fluorescent lights and runs inductive loads, like motors, faster and quieter due to the low harmonic distortion ABS Alaskan Problem Statement In the market of power inverters, there are many choices. They range from the very expensive to the very inexpensive, with varying degrees of quality, efficiency, and power output capability along the way. High quality combined with high efficiency exists, though it is often at a high monetary cost. For example, Samlex America manufactures a 600 W, pure sine wave inverter; the cost is $289 Meanwhile GoPower manufactures a 600 W inverter with a modified sine wave output (closer to a square wave); this model only fetches $69 The high end pure sine wave inverters tend to incorporate very expensive, high power capable digital components. The modified sine wave units can be very efficient, as there is not much processing being performed on the output waveform, but this results in a waveform with a high number of harmonics, which can affect sensitive equipment such as medical monitors. Many of the very cheap devices output a square wave, perhaps a slightly modified square wave, with the proper RMS voltage, and close to the right frequency Our goal is to fill a niche which seems to be lacking in the power inverters market, one for a fairly efficient, inexpensive inverter with a pure sine wave output. Utilizing PWM and analog components, the output will be a clean sinusoid, with very little switching noise, combined with the inexpensive manufacturing that comes with an analog approach 600 Watt Pure Sine Wave Inverter. Donrowe.com Go Power 600 Watt Modified Wave Inverter Background DC and AC Current In the world today there are currently two forms of electrical transmission, Direct Current (DC) and Alternating Current (AC), each with its own advantages and disadvantages. DC power is simply the application of a steady constant voltage across a circuit resulting in a constant current. A battery is the most common source of DC transmission as current flows from one end of a circuit to the other. Most digital circuitry today is run off of DC power as it carries the ability to provide either a constant high or constant low voltage, enabling digital logic to process code executions. Historically, electricity was first commercially transmitted by Thomas Edison, and was a DC power line. However, this electricity was low voltage, due to the inability to step up DC voltage at the time, and thus it was not capable of transmitting power over long distances V =IR P=IV = I 2 R (1) As can be seen in the equations above, power loss can be derived from the electrical current squared and the resistance of a transmission line. When the voltage is increased, the current decreases and concurrently the power loss decreases exponentially; therefore high voltage transmission reduces power loss. For this reasoning electricity was generated at power stations and delivered to homes and businesses through AC power. Alternating current, unlike DC, oscillates between two voltage values at a specified frequency, and its ever changing current and voltage makes it easy to step up or down the voltage. For high voltage and long distance transmission situations all that is needed to step up or down the voltage is a transformer. Developed in 1886 by William Stanley Jr., the transformer made long distance electrical transmission using AC power possible Charpentier Bellis Electrical transmission has therefore been mainly based upon AC power, supplying most American homes with a 120 volt AC source. It should be noted that since 1954 there have been many high voltage DC transmission systems implemented around the globe with the advent of DC/DC converters, allowing the easy stepping up and down of DC voltages Like DC power, there exist many devices such as power tools, radios and TV’s that run off of AC power. It is therefore crucial that both forms of electricity transmission exist; the world cannot be powered with one simple form. It then becomes a vital matter for there to exist easy ways to transform DC to AC power and vice versa in an efficient manner. Without this ability people will be restricted to what electronic devices they use depending on the electricity source available. Electrical AC/DC converters and DC/AC inverters allow people this freedom in transferring electrical power between the two Charpentier Inverters and Applications Power inverters are devices which can convert electrical energy of DC form into that of AC. They come in all shapes and sizes, from low power functions such as powering a car radio to that of backing up a building in case of power outage. Inverters can come in many different varieties, differing in price, power, efficiency and purpose. The purpose of a DC/AC power inverter is typically to take DC power supplied by a battery, such as a 12 volt car battery, and transform it into a 120 volt AC power source operating at 60 Hz, emulating the power available at an ordinary household electrical outlet Figure 1: Commercial 200 Watt Inverter Figure 1 provides a idea of what a small power inverter looks like. Power inverters are used today for many tasks like powering appliances in a car such as cell phones, radios and televisions. They also come in handy for consumers who own camping vehicles, boats and at construction sites where an electric grid may not be as accessible to hook into. Inverters allow the user to provide AC power in areas where only batteries can be made available, allowing portability and freeing the user of long power cords On the market today are two different types of power inverters, modified sine wave and pure sine wave generators. These inverters differ in their outputs, providing varying levels of efficiency and distortion that can affect electronic devices in different ways Walmart.com A modified sine wave is similar to a square wave but instead has a “stepping” look to it that relates more in shape to a sine wave. This can be seen in Figure 2, which displays how a modified sine wave tries to emulate the sine wave itself. The waveform is easy to produce because it is just the product of switching between 3 values at set frequencies, thereby leaving out the more complicated circuitry needed for a pure sine wave. The modified sine wave inverter provides a cheap and easy solution to powering devices that need AC power. It does have some drawbacks as not all devices work properly on a modified sine wave, products such as computers and medical equipment are not resistant to the distortion of the signal and must be run off of a pure sine wave power source Figure 2: Square, Modified, and Pure Sine Wave Pure sine wave inverters are able to simulate precisely the AC power that is delivered by a wall outlet. Usually sine wave inverters are more expensive then modified sine wave generators due to the added circuitry. This cost, however, is made up for in its ability to provide power to all AC electronic devices, allow inductive loads to run faster and quieter, and reduce the audible and electric noise in audio equipment, TV’s and fluorescent lights Trace Engineering Donrowe.com Even with the filter problems experienced, the threelevel PWM signals were generated correctly and could be used to power resistive loads before the filter. Although this is true, we avoided the core saturation problem by doubling the switching frequency and reducing the inductance values in the filter. Through proper component selection in another revision, the switching frequency could be returned to 50Khz. This would involve the use of a higher capacitance/voltage nonpolarized capacitor and a smaller inductor to avoid core saturation. While components capable of meeting these requirements exist, there was insufficient time to order them and test their operation in the circuit With the exception of the filter problems mentioned above, the circuit is functioning as designed and correctly inverts a DC voltage to an AC voltage. The efficiency and THD of the inverter was not calculated due to the amount of time spent in design verification and testing, a problem addressed in the Recommendations section. 39 Recommendations Although all goals in this project were met there are many ways in which this project can be improved upon. The project called for producing a 120 volt RMS pure sine wave output, therein lies a problem however, in the way that this project is designed, differing loads will allow the output of this project to vary from the 120 volt RMS output. One way in which this problem could be combated would be to introduce a closed loop monitoring system. This system would look at the output of the inverter and check to ensure that this is the correct output, if this output is not what it should be then this system has the power to go back and adjust the settings in the control circuit so that the output is the desired 120 volt RMS sine wave. A simple diagram shown below demonstrates the basic idea of a closed loop control system Figure 33: Closed Loop Flow Chart The output would be scaled and compared to an ideal output reference, perhaps the sine wave reference (Bubba Oscillator) in the control circuit (its size and shape do not change), so that the change in voltage output can be accounted for. When this change is detected the amplification factor of the non 40 inverting amplifier for the sine wave reference (shown in Figure 34) could be adjusted thereby changing the PWM signal and effectively adjusting the output Figure 34: NonInverting Amplifier Block The closed loop control system would allow the system to output the correct voltage and power no matter what the load. Sometimes certain loads can cause fluctuations and voltage spikes within the driving portion of the circuit, specifically around the MOSFETs. This project intended to take into account these voltage and current spikes and protect the MOSFETs with the additions of RC snubbers and zener diodes across each of the MOSFETs. Information on these types of devices can be found in the background section of this report under: Circuit Protection and Snubbers. The team completed more research and discovered this problem can easily be solved with the introduction of Transient Voltage Suppression (TVS) diodes These diodes are zener diodes with special characteristics (such as suppression of high transient voltages) that make them ideal for these types of power applications. The team even went so far as to order these diodes, however time was not available to apply them to the circuit. TVS diodes are special in that they are able to withstand the quick voltage and current spikes that can occur in the MOSFET switching as well as being a cheap alternative to RC snubbers. For this application a TVS diode of rating 170 volts would be used, and to ensure that they would last a 1500 Watt rating was chosen. This team recommends that in any future projects that these diodes or any other circuit protection be applied across each of the 4 MOSFETs used in the HBridge to protect them from surges that can occur in basic switching or by inductive loads 41 Conclusion The goals for this project were to produce a pure sine wave DCAC inverter that would output at 60 Hz, 120 volts RMS with 250 watt output, would be cheap to manufacture, and fairly efficient in the method in which it produces it. Taking a look at these goals and the end result it can be said that they were met, the circuitry and total cost of all the components used in the construction of the circuit was around $65 (Appendix E) as compared to the $300600 pure sine wave inverters on the market now. This cost however, is when buying parts one at a time, if manufactured this price tag would drop greatly due to the quantities of parts that would be bought. The second goal, to produce a 120 volt RMS sine wave with the capability of providing 250 watts of power was not actually tested, but the team is confident in its ability to produce this waveform. Using parts in the driver portion of the circuit that are rated for at least twice the operating parameters, 170 volts and 2 amps, the team can be assured that these devices will work with the same functionality as they do at 12 volts. At 12 volts powering, the HBridge output is a clean 60 Hz sine wave that can easily be controlled in size by the size of the sine reference in the control circuit. It is in this capability that the option of a closed loop control circuit could be implemented In looking at how efficient this project is, there is no hard data that can be referred to as not enough time was available to collect it. In looking at the components selected and the simulations created before the actual construction of the inverter, everything was built in mind for the purpose of efficiency and keeping power losses to a minimum. One of the major factors in the power savings is the use of a three level PWM signal instead of a two level, this allows a much lower average power output to produce the sine wave needed and assisting in the efficiency of the device 42 This project is a stepping stone to a cheaper and efficient pure sine wave inverter, by using the data collected in this report as well as the schematics and recommendations the product produced here can be improved upon. Simple additions such as circuit protection and a closed loop control system could greatly improve the performance of this project. The project, in its present condition, does work in the manner the team wished and has met every goal set at the commencement of this venture 43 References 600 Watt Pure Sine Wave Inverter. 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Retrieved December 6, 2006 from http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=4965458 44 45 Appendix A: Switching Frequency Charts Figure 35: Frequency plot of MOSFET losses Figure 36: Frequency plot of inductor losses (resistive) 46 Appendix B: Circuit Diagram 47 48 Appendix C: Flowchart 49 Appendix D: PCB Board Diagrams 50 51 Appendix E: Parts List Inductors Quantity Digikey Catalog Number 4mH High Current Inductor 2371231ND $4.78 1.2mH High Current Inductor M9850ND $12.54 1% Resistors Quantity 10 Ohm $0.40 2.2M Ohm $0.10 475k Ohm $0.10 27.5k Ohm $0.30 31k Ohm $0.10 300k Ohm $0.10 1k Ohm $0.90 10k Ohm $0.10 7.5k Ohm $0.10 510 Ohm $0.10 1.5k Ohm $0.10 26.7k Ohm $0.20 2k Ohm $0.10 200k Ohm $0.10 510k Ohm $0.10 Capacitors Quantity 1uF $2.40 2uF $0.80 51nF $0.80 1nF $0.40 01nF $0.40 1nF $0.40 680pF $0.40 Diodes Quantity 1n4148 Diode $0.10 IR150F Diode 8ETu04ND $4.46 Chips and Semiconductors Quantity LM348 52 COST $0.55 TL084 $1.80 MC3302 $0.55 IR 2110 IR2110PBFND $11.70 IR549P Mosfet IRFB20N50KPbFND $22.56 TOTAL $67.54 53 ... Figure 2: Square, Modified, and Pure Sine Wave Pure sine wave inverters are able to simulate precisely the AC power that is delivered by a wall outlet. Usually sine wave inverters are more expensive then modified sine wave generators due to the ... average power and rms voltage are the same as if it were a sine wave. These types of inverters are much cheaper than pure sine wave inverters and therefore are attractive alternatives Pure sine wave inverters, on the other hand, produce a sine wave output identical to the power ... example, Samlex America manufactures a 600 W, pure sine wave inverter; the cost is $289 Meanwhile GoPower manufactures a 600 W inverter with a modified sine wave output (closer to a square wave) ; this model only fetches $69