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| Title: | Development of a microcontroller-based inverter for photovoltaic application |
| Authors: | Sharulnizam, Mohd Mukhtar |
| Keywords: | Microcontroller-based inverter
Photovoltaic systems
Switching pulse
Electricity |
| Issue Date: | 2011 |
| Publisher: | Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) |
| Department: | School of Electrical Systems Engineering |
| Abstract: | Presented in this thesis is the development of a microcontroller-based inverter for
photovoltaic systems. A single 8-bit microcontroller generated switching pulses for both
stages of the inverter’s dc-dc converter and dc-ac inverter. A simple, effective algorithm
suitable for implementation in a single 8051 microcontroller was developed, for control
of the inverter’s power stage. The thesis explained details on the PWM and the SPWM
switching strategies including calculation to presents their switching pulse widths. An
inverter of 500W capacity was built to test the switching pulse generated by the microcontroller.
A high frequency (HF) planar transformer raised input voltage to the inverter’s
required level and provided isolation and solving difficulties in producing a handmade
conventional HF transformer. The experiment were conducted in laboratory environment,
where input voltage was taken from DC power supply and the inverter load was purely
resistive. The prototype’s performance analysis results were found to be similar to those
calculated. The prototype inverter performed well that able to produce a stable 240V
output voltage at 50Hz, able to handle loads up to 500W, and had a low THD. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/20810 |
| Appears in Collections: | School of Electrical Systems Engineering (Theses)
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