Chapter 4

Conclusion

During the analysis thus far the various bridge configurations have been selected and analyzed on the MATLAB/SIMULINK environment and their THD values have been compared in chapter 2. The passive load configurations for which the preliminary analysis was done were R and RL loads. Among all these inverters only two most efficient configurations from VSI and CSI category were selected for driving motor load based on the performance analysis done in chapter 2 these configurations were 180 degree VSI and three phase ASCII and with these two inverters a motor load was driven in chapter 3 and the THD values in line voltage and current were compared and it was found that for passive load configurations three phase auto sequentially commutated current source inverter performed well for the given types of load specifications and in case of active load( three phase induction motor ) the performance of 180 degree VSI was found to be more better in line voltage harmonics mitigation and performance of ASCII was found to be more better in case of line current harmonics mitigation. Various results found in chapter 2 and 3 are summarized in following table:

For single phase inverters

For R load Single phase half bridge VSI Single phase full bridge VSI Single phase CSI For RL load Single phase half bridge VSI Single phase full bridge VSI Single phase CSI THD in voltage (%) 29.8 29.8 11.34 THD in voltage (%) 30.08 THD in current (%) 29.8 29.8 11.34 THD in current (%) 29.93

10.94

10.94

For three phase inverters

For R load VSI in 120degree mode VSI in 180 degree mode ASCI
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THD in line voltage (%) 35.07 31.09 26.47

THD in phase voltage (%) 35.10 31.08 26.83

THD in current (%) 30.39 31.8 26.95

For RL load VSI in 120degree mode VSI in 180 degree mode ASCI

THD in line voltage (%) 35.06 30.61 29.91

THD in phase voltage (%) 35.10 30.61 30.17

THD in current (%) 30.39 28.48 29.07

For motor load VSI 180 degree mode ASCII

THD in voltage (line to line) 30.74 65.65

THD in current (line to line) 69.50 29.53

The reasons for these findings are apprehensible based on theory that the THD factor for a quasi square wave is around 30% according to the Fourier analysis of quasi square wave and as the voltage output of the VSI is a quasi square wave then its THD value in voltage comes out to be around 30% (some deviation from this value is due to the loading effect ) and the shape of current was decided by the load. And in case of current source inverter same thing is true for current .but still a comparison is required because of the capability of ASCI to work in overlapping and non-overlapping regions ,in overlapping region the ASCI current output is near to a sine wave whereas in non-overlapping region its current output is a square wave hence THD values can vary in a wide range ,also the other variable (voltage in case of CSI and current in case of VSI ) is completely governed by the type of load . Hence this comparison provides a guideline for inverter installation for any particular load type.

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