A Coupled Inductor Based High Boost

Inverter with SubUnity TurnsRatio

Range
Introduction:
High gain inverters find wide range of applications in industry
like renewable energy systems/distributed generation systems,
industrial drives, UPS systems, electric vehicles, etc. Inverters for
renewable or UPS applications require high voltage boosting action
owing to the lowvoltage output nature of the renewable sources and
storage systems, like solar PV, fuel cells, batteries, etc. VSI is
therefore not suitable for this kind of applications as it can only
produce an AC output voltage lower than its DC input. Boost feature
is usually added to VSI by placing a boost based converter in cascade.
Existing system:
Two inductors or coils that are linked by electromagnetic
induction are said to be coupled inductors. When an alternating
current flows through one coil, the coil sets up a magnetic field which
is coupled to the second coil and induces a voltage in that coil. The
phenomenon of one inductor inducing a voltage in another inductor is
known as mutual inductance. Coupled coils can be used as a basic
model for transformers. It is an important part of power distribution
systems and electronic circuits he switching frequency is directly
related to the inductance of windings so if this frequency gets varied
then the windings of CL must also vary. The voltage gain is increased
by using a CL. The copper usage with low number of winding helps
in reducing the magnetic core losses.
Drawbacks:
The boost ratio of the conventional boost converter is limited
due to the circuit nonidealities.
As the converter structure contains a VSI connected at the DC
link, the converter is prone to get damaged due to EMI. EMI can
cause spurious turnon of top and bottom switches of any
inverter leg causing the DC link capacitor or DC source to short
circuit which can damage the switches.

Proposed system:
It achieves high boost by utilizing the energy transfer through
the transformer action of the coupled. The proposed inverter
comprises of an active impedance network which includes coupled
inductor L1, L2 with n1 primary and n2 secondary turns, capacitor
CO, controlled switch S, two diodes Da, Db which precedes the single
phase inverter bridge. The secondary winding number of turns (n2) is
always kept less than primary winding number of turns (n1) for
proper inverter operation. Switch S and inverter bridge switches are
shown using IGBTs although they can also be realized using
MOSFETs. As active devices mainly constitute the impedance
network in the proposed inverter, it can be thought of as an active
impedance network. This is on the contrary to the traditional
impedance source network concept where passive components form
most part of this network. The proposed inverter operates in (a)
shootthrough duty interval (or D interval) and (b) nonshoot
through interval (or 1D interval) in a switching cycle.
 Advantages:
High impedance.
High gain.
Electro Magnetic Interference problem is reduced.
Applications:
Distributed generation systems.
Industrial drives.
UPS systems.
Electric vehicles.
Renewable sources and storage systems, like solar PV, fuel cells,
batteries, etc.
Block diagram:

Input DC Boost circuit with

Inverter Load
Supply Coupled Inductor

12V DC Isolation Circuit Driver Circuit 12V DC

Buffer Circuit

5V DC

Micro Controller
Circuit