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Single Phase Cascaded H5 Inverter with

Leakage Current Elimination for
Transformerless Photovoltaic System
Introduction:
The transformerless photovoltaic (PV) inverters have the
advantages of low cost, small size, light weight and high efficiency.
However, the leakage current will arise due to lack of galvanic isolation.
The undesirable leakage current may lead to electromagnetic inferences,
current harmonic distortion and safety concerns. Therefore, it is crucial
to eliminate the leakage current in transformerless PV systems.

Existing system:
The conventional full-bridge VSI (H4) topology has many
favorable features for single-phase TPVI applications. These features
include a simple modular structure with a small component count (low
cost) and a low dc-bus voltage requirement. The latter attribute results in
lower voltage rating switches (low cost), reduced converter losses (high
efficiency), and a smaller number of PV modules connected in series
(lower voltage, and better at meeting the safety and reliability
requirements). Operating the H4 with unipolar pulse-width modulation
(PWM) yields a low current ripple and a small filter inductor. However,
it causes a large CMV and its associated leakage current depending on
the equivalent PV source parasitic capacitance, which could be
prohibitive. Operating the H4 with bipolar PWM yields a reduced CMV
and less leakage current. However, it causes a large current ripple and
requires a large filter inductor.
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Drawbacks:

Large current ripple.

Requires a large filter inductor.

Proposed system:
Leakage current reduction is one of the important issues for the
transformelress PV systems. In this paper, the transformerless singlephase cascaded H-bridge PV inverter is investigated.

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Advantages:

Leakage current reduction can be achieved.

Applications:

Single-phase transformerless PV systems.

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Block diagram:
Input Solar
Supply 1

H5 Inverter 1

Load

Input Solar
Supply 2

12V DC

H5 Inverter 2

Isolation Circuit

Buffer Circuit
5V DC
Micro Controller
Circuit

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