2019 International Conference on Innovative Trends in Computer Engineering (ITCE’2019), Aswan, Egypt, 2-4 February 2019
Performance Analysis for Single-Stage Buck-Boost
Inverter
Eltaib Abdeen, Mahmoud A. Gaafar and Mohamed Orabi
APEARC, Faculty of Engineering Aswan Univeristy
Aswan, Egypt
eabdeen@apearc.aswu.edu.eg, mgaafar@apearc.aswu.edu.eg, morabi@apearc.aswu.edu.eg
Abstract—In this paper a three-phase single stage buck-
boost inverter is presented. The proposed inverter consists of a
DC-AC inverter that merges DC-DC converter for boosting
the input voltage and DC-AC inverter for interfacing the DC
input and AC grid. The proposed paper based on the three-
phase full bridge inverter, where only one inductor and switch
have been added to step up the input voltage. The proposed
inverter is featured by some advantages such as a
reduction in the number of semiconductor power
switches, and control implementation simplicity. The
operation of the inverter is studied and analyzed in this
paper. The three-phase inverter is simulated using
MATLAB software package-tool to verify the performance of the
topology.
Keywords; PV; single stage;buck boost; inverter
I. INTRODUCTION
Recently, the installation of a Photovoltaic (PV) system has
increased significantly. Mainly the PV system consists of PV
module, Inverter, and the AC grid. The inverter is the interface
unit between the PV module and the AC grid the most
challenging in PV system is the inverter. The inverter can be
divided into two main categories from point of view the power
stage: single stage and two stages. The two-stage inverter can
be implemented cascading, the first stage DC-DC converter to
perform step up the PV voltage to reach the grid level and
extract the maximum power from PV a decoupling capacitor
between the first stage and the second stage is used to provide
the power decoupling, the second stage DC-AC inverter that
injects the current into the grid [1]. The main drawback of the
two-stage is a high cost due to the component count. Therefore
the main challenging is to implement single stage inverter and
reducing the cost [2][3]. A single stage inverter called Z source
inverter (ZSI) was introduced in [4]. ZSI topology was
designed to merge the DC-DC converter and DC-AC inverter
in a single stage. This topology has the ability to step up the
input voltage and execute the power conversion, however, the
boosting factor has limitation. From point of view the boosting
factor, many research improves the conversion ratio by adding
an extra element to overcome this problem such as qZSI, SL-
ZSI, SL-qZSI [5]–[9]. However, all these topologies have a
large number of passive elements which add more size and
cost.
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In [10], proposed a single stage inverter single phase
inverter which used the full bridge and two diodes connected
together with one inductor. Recently, with the same circuit in
[10], the three-phase inverter was proposed in [11], which
called Split Source inverter (SSI). SSI topology has some
merits such as lower passive element compared to Z- source
inverter, however, SSI allow high diode commutations and
used extra three diodes. In [12] improved the performance of
SSI by replacing the diodes with active switches. The author in
[13], mentioned the buck-boost inverter circuit . The author
indicated that from B4 can extract B6 to perform three-phase
inverter from single-phase inverter. However, buck boost
inverter (BBI) topology needs more investigation on the
operation modes. Therefore this paper introduces analysis and
circuit operation for this topology.
This paper is organized as follows; the analysis and
operation are discussed in section II. In section III, the
conversion ratio and device stress are presented. To validate
the performance of the topology, the simulation result is
discussed in section IV. Finally, the conclusion for the paper is
presented in section
II. TOPOLOGY OPERATION
The schematic diagram for BBI topology is shown in Fig.
1. Uses the three-phase full bridge of the common VSI with
extra only one switch at the input site and one inductor for
boost the input. The boosting conversion is provides using only
one active semiconductor Sb at the input for boosting the input
voltage and using the antiparallel diode for other switches. Sb is
switched ON with duty cycle D during any states of the
inverter. Two modes of the operating for the proposed
topology is introduced:
A. Charging Mode
The inductor L is charged from the DC source when Sb is
turned ON, according to (1) and the capacitor C supply the load
through the inverter bridge. The inverter voltage Vinv across the
inverter terminal is equal to the capacitor voltage VC and is
given in (2).
VL=L di/dt= VDC (1)
Vinv= VC (2)
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 L Vc
IL

- +
SHa SHb SHc

-V
Sb
a
+ dc Vinv b
c

SLa SLb SLc

Fig. 1. The three-phase single stage BBI schematic diagram.

IL Vc IL Vc

IL
L - +
IL
L - +
Iinv

Vdc Sb
Vdc Sb Vinv
Vinv

IL

(a)Charging mode (b) Discharging mode

Fig. 2. The simplified circuit for the operation of the three-phase BBI

M=Vph/ (Vinv/2) (6)

B. Discharging Mode
When the switch Sb is turned OFF, the inductor is From (5) and (6), the relation between the peak phase
discharged its energy into the capacitor through the anti- voltage Vph and the DC input voltage can be calculated as:
parallel diode of the lower middle switches according to (3).
In this case, the voltage Vinv is equal to zero (4) Vph/VDC=M/(1-D) (7)
VL=L di/dt= VDC -VC (3) It’s worth to note that, the maximum modulation index
Vinv=0 (4) value Mmax is related to the duty cycle of the boost DC-DC
converters D and expressed as:
The inverter voltage can be calculated through the Mmax=D (8)
switching cycle in (5)
The conversion ratio G of the inverter will be as in (9) is:
Vinv= VDC /(1-D) (5)
G=Vph/VDC=2Mmax/(1-D) (9)
III. THE CONVERSION RATIO AND DEVICES STRESS
B. Device Stress
A. Conversion ratio
The current and voltage stress can be summarized in
Table I where the value of the maximum current and the
The relation between the peak phase voltage Vph and the blocking voltage are represented for every single switch. It is
inverter voltage Vinv is defined as the modulation index, M:

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worth form Table I, that the maximum current for the TABLE II. SIMULATION PARAMETERS
inverter bridge (B6) is the phase current Iph, which is always Parameters Value
less than the inductor current due to the boost operation.
Grid voltage, Vph 110 V RMS

TABLE I. DEVICE STRESS DC Voltage VDC 100V

Switch Current stress Voltage stress DC link capacitor voltage, VC 410V

Inverter B6 switches Iph DC link capacitor C 47uF

Vdc/(1-D)
Boost Switch Sb Inductor L 2mH
∆IL +IL+Iph
Switching frequency Fsw 10KHz

IV. SIMULATION RESULTS

The simulation is conducted to verify the operation of the
proposed topology. They carried out on topology that shown
in Fig. 1. MATLAB software is used to provide the
simulation result. The DC input connected throughout
inductor L and the boost switch (Sb). The extracted power of
the inverter feeds the grid level 110 Vrms. The simulation
specification is shown in Table II.
The DC voltage, current, DC- link voltage and the grid
current, waveforms are illustrated in Fig. 3: Fig. 7
respectively. From the simulation result, the average inductor
current is 5.3A as shown in Fig. 3. From Fig. 4, the capacitor
voltage is settling at 410V. It’s worth to note that the
capacitor has peak-peak ripple less than 1% for 47uF, this
allows to use film capacitor which extends the lifetime. The
output power of the inverter is supplying grid 110 V rms
with 1.85 A rms current as shown in Fig. 5. The inverter
voltage and voltage levels is illustrated in Fig. 6. The voltage
stress for each switch is equal to the inverter voltage as
shown in Fig. 7 and Fig. 8 for the inverter voltage with peak
voltage 410V. Finally the current stress on the switch Sb is
shown in Fig. 9.

Fig. 3. The inductor current waveform

Fig. 4. The capacitor voltage waveform

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 Fig. 5. The three phase current waveform

Fig. 6. The invertr voltage waveform

Fig. 7. The voltage stress across each switch

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 Fig. 8. The inverter voltage level

Fig. 9. The current stress on the boost switch, Sb

element is employed to achieve step-up voltage and the DC

V. CONCLUSION -AC conversion to feed the grid.

Analysis for BBI topology is presented in this paper. The

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