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THREE PHASE Z-SOURCE INVERTER

Supriya Lohar , Pradnya Mane, Sonali Gaikwad, Tejaswini Shivarkar
Electronics and Communication Engineering.
Savitribai Phule Pune University, India

Abstract: - Z-source inverter is the boost converter

when there is a special arrangement of inductors
and capacitors. Z represents the impedance of the
circuit. Z- Source inverter is used for voltage
boosting as well as voltage buck. But this paper
gives the idea about boosting characteristic of Z-
source inverter.

Simulation and experimental results have shown

that the multicell inverters can produce the voltage
boosting. Components values are
(L=1mH, C=1.42F)
Index terms: Z-source, Cascaded Z-source
inverter, Pulse width modulation (PWM).
I.INTRODUCTION
The first inverter invented was the voltage source
inverter (VSI). This has the certain drawbacks such as
at output we get less voltage than required. [1]
In case of VSI there is need of boosting the voltage.
For this reason an extra circuitry is added called as
boost circuit and it consist of inductor in series.
Getting the high boosting capacity it required large
number of inductor windings. Due to increase in
number of winding the size and cost of circuit
increases and noise also increases.
To remove the drawback of boosting circuit capacitors
and inductors are arranged in special manner in the
circuitry. In this topology inductors and capacitors are
added in X manner. X manner allows the safe shoot
through state. [2]
A.Block diagram
Fig1. Block diagram of cascaded z-source inverter
II. DESCRIPTION
In this project, four main units are responsible to
obtain three phases at output and boosted voltage at
output of z-source. AC mains supply is given to step
down transformer, through step down transformer
input given to the Z source. Z- Source is the filter
which acts as the voltage booster. Z stands for the
impedance in the network. It is the extra circuitry
which we added to reduce the harmonics in input
voltage signal. The Z-source inverter topology where
a unique impedance network is introduced to couple
the inverter main circuit to the power source. Output
of z-source is given to inverter input. To obtain three
phase output voltage triggering of MOSFET in
different modes are required. To trigger the MOSFET,
pulse width modulation technique is used. The PIC
microcontroller is used as the pulse generator unit,
since the pulse width modulation technique is inbuilt
in the PIC microcontroller. To trigger the MOSFET
minimum 20 volt pulses are required. From the pulse
generator unit only 5 volt PWM pulses are obtained
which are insufficient to trigger the MOSFET and
therefore the driver circuit is used. In the driver circuit
Darlington pair is used to amplify the 5 volt PWM
pulses to 20 volt pulses.

III. Z- SOURCE INVERTER

The three phase Z-source inverter as shown in fig.3

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Fig 2 single phase Z Source inverter
Fig 3 Three phase Z-source inverter
IV. IMPROVED Z-SOURCE INVERTER
The improved Z-source inverter is shown in Fig. 4.
The elements used are different than the previous one.
The difference is the arrangement of inductor and
capacitors.
Fig 4 Improved Z-source network
In the conventional simple boost control method, a
triangular carrier was used to control the shoot-
through duty ratio.
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VPN = BVO = 1/(1-2DO)
Do = 1-Mo.
Vpn= input voltage,
B= Boost factor,
Do= Duty ratio.
Mo= Modulation Index.
V. PWM TECHNIQUE OF THE VOLTAGE
SOURCE INVERTER
Output voltage from an inverter can also be
adjusted by exercising a control within the inverter
itself. The most efficient method of doing this is by
pulse-width modulation control used within an
inverter. In the traditional PWM technique of the
voltage source inverter, there are eight permissible
switching states: six active and two zero states. During
the two zero states, the upper three or the lower three
switches are turned on simultaneously, thus shorting
the output terminals of the inverter and producing zero
voltage to the load. During one of the six active states,
the dc voltage is impressed across the load, positively
or negatively.
Fig.5 single pulse width modulation
In addition to the eight traditional switching states, the
Z-source inverter has several shoot-through zero
states, during which both the upper and lower switches
of one or multiple same phase legs are turned on. It is
obvious that during a shoot-through zero state, the
output terminals of the inverter are shorted and the
output voltage to the load is zero. Therefore, the shoot
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through states has the same effect (i.e., zero voltage)

to the load as the traditional zero states; however, these
shoot through states can boost the dc voltage.

VI. MATLAB SIMULATION

Matlab is software which has inbuilt SPWM

(sinusoidal pulse width modulation) ,which is used to
trigger MOSFET used in inverter.

Sinusoidal Pulse Width Modulation: In this

modulation technique are multiple numbers of output
pulse per half cycle and pulses are of different width. Fig.7 Input given to Z-source
The width of each pulse is varying in proportion to the
amplitude of a sine wave evaluated at the centre of the
same pulse. The gating signals are generated by
comparing sinusoidal reference with a high frequency
triangular signal.

Fig.8 Matlab Output of Inverter

VII. CONCLUSION

In this paper Z-source inverter is shown. Z-source is

Fig.6 sinusoidal pulse width modulation
Features of SPWM Technique:
i.Switching Losses
ii.Utilization of Dc power supply that is to deliver a
higher output voltage with the same DC supply.
iii.Linearity in voltage and current control.
iv.Harmonics contents in the voltage.
Assume
Input given to Z-source Vin =50Vdc
Inductor = 1mH, Capacitor= 1.42F.
Sampling Frequency= 10KHz.
used as a filter. The Z-source inverter uses the PWM
signals which are made by comparing one reference
signal. Using Z-source network in cascaded form we
get the boosted output at the three phase inverter
output which is verified by using the Matlab
simulation results obtain value is 100 V three phase
AC.
VIII. REFERENCES
[1] Cascaded Multicell Trans-Z-Source Inverters
Ding Li, Student Member, IEEE, Poh Chiang Loh,
Senior Member, IEEE, Miao Zhu, Senior Member,
IEEE, Feng Gao, Senior Member, IEEE, and Frede
Blaabjerg, Fellow, IEEE.
[2] Analysis and Design of Bi-Directional Z-Source
Inverter for Electrical Vehicles

VI. SIMULATION RESULT Haiping Xu1,2 , Fang Z. Peng1 , Lihua Chen1, Xuhui
Wen2 1ECE department, Michigan state University,

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East Lansing, MI 48824,USA 2Institute of Electrical

Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing,
China

[3] Constant Boost Control of the Z-Source Inverter to

Minimize Current Ripple and Voltage Stress

Miaosen Shen, Student Member, IEEE, Jin Wang,

Member, IEEE, Alan Joseph, Fang Zheng Peng,
Fellow, IEEE,

Leon M. Tolbert, Senior Member, IEEE, and Donald

J. Adams, Member, IEEE.

[4] Extended boost Z-source inverters

Chandana Jayampathi Gajanayake, Member, IEEE,

Luo Fang Lin, Senior Member IEEE,

Gooi Hoay Beng, Senior Member IEEE, So Ping Lam,

Senior Member IEEE, and Siow

Lip Kian, Member IEEE

School of Electrical and Electronic

Engineering, Nanyang Technological

University.

[5] Four Quasi-Z-Source Inverters

Joel Anderson and F.Z. Peng Michigan State

University Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering College of Engineering East Lansing,
Michigan USA.

[6] Improved Z-Source Inverter With Reduced Z

Source Capacitor Voltage Stress and Soft-Start
Capability

Yu Tang, Shaojun Xie, Member, IEEE, Chaohua

Zhang, and Zegang Xu.

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