FINAL YEAR PROJECT PROPOSAL

TOPIC: DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF DC TO AC POWER

ELECTRONICS BASED INVERTER THAT PRODUCES PURE SINE WAVE
OUTPUT.
 
Submitted by
NAME: MUBEEZI CONSEPTAR
REG NO: 1173-03114-11140

Supervisor: Mr. LUBEGA JAMIL HUSSEIN

APRIL 2021
 OUTLINE OF THE PRESTATION

INTRODUCTION

Problem statement

Main objective

Specific objectives

Significance of the research

SCOPE OF THE STUDY

LITERATURE REVIEW

METHODOLOGY

Proposed block diagram

Major Components required

 REFERENCES
INTRODUTION
This proposal focuses on designing a DC to AC power inverter, which aim to efficiently transform a DC power
source to a high voltage AC source, similar to power that would be available at an electrical wall socket.
Inverters are used for many applications, as in situations where low voltage DC sources such as batteries,
solar panels or fuel cells must be converted so that devices can run off of AC power. One example of such a
situation would be converting electrical power from a solar battery to run a laptop, Drilling machine or cell
phone. The proposed project consists of two steps first being the conversion of the low voltage DC power to
a high voltage DC source, and the second step being the conversion of the high DC source to an AC
waveform using pulse width modulation.
These devices are able to run more sensitive devices that a modified sine wave may cause damage to some
equipment such as laser printers, laptop computers, power tools, digital clocks and medical equipment.
This form of AC power also reduces audible noise in devices such as fluorescent lights and runs inductive
loads, like motors, faster and quieter due to the low harmonic distortion.

Problem statement
 The high end pure sine wave inverters tend to incorporate very expensive, high power capable digital
components. The modified sine wave units can be very efficient, as there is not much processing being
performed on the output waveform, but this results in a waveform with a high number of harmonics, which
can affect sensitive equipment such as medical monitors.
 The main goal here is design an efficient power inverter which is power electronics based cost effective,
reliable and produces pure sine wave with no switching harmonics
Main objective
 To design a DC to AC power electronics based inverter that produces pure sine wave output up to over 0.5 KW that is coast
effective and reliable without using transformer based approach of designing power inverters.

Specific objectives
 To develop a circuit using MOSFETS that can invert 12V DC power to 240AC power.
 To carry out harmonics analysis in the power electronics based inverter.
 To carry out the economic analysis of power electronics based inverter.
 To monitor and control stable power output of the inverter.
Significance of the research

Power inverters are vital especially in places where hydroelectricity is not in place yet there equipment which use AC power. For
example if someone is to use a grinder to cut a metal on a rooftop where there is no electricity provision, the inverter can be
used in such scenarios properly. Most of the equipment can operate on square wave inverters but if it comes to sensitive
equipment, they need a pure sine wave from the inverter for them to run. Therefore this project aims at designing a pure sine
wave inverter. Also, transformers make usual inverters bulky and expensive and this sense, the proposed inverter design will
be lighter and cheaper compared to the usual inverters.
SCOPE OF THE STUDY
Context scope
 The study covered the design and implementation of a DC to AC inverter that invert DC to AC power without the transformers

and inductive coils.

Time scope
 The whole process of designing and implementing of a DC to AC inverter that invert DC to AC power without inductive coils

will take a period of five months.

 LITERATURE REVIEW

Introduction
 An inverter is an electrical device that converts direct current (DC) to alternating current (AC) or

signal. The converted AC can be at any required voltage and frequency with the use of appropriate
transformers, switching, and control circuits. Solid-state inverters have no moving parts and are used
in a wide range of applications, from small switching power supplies in computers, to large electric
utility high-voltage direct current applications that transport bulk power. Inverters are commonly
used to supply AC power from DC sources such as solar panels or batteries. The inverter performs the
opposite function of a rectifier. 

Existing system

There are three basic types of dc-ac inverters square wave, modified sine wave, and pure sine wave. The
square wave is the simplest and cheapest type, but nowadays it is practically not used commercially
because of low power quality.

Most of the existing systems are quite bulky because of the use of transformers and consinsts of unstable
voltage out put due to variations in temperature and loads.
Related Work
 Dr. Ulrich Nicolai, Dr. Tobias Reimann, Prof. Jürgen Petzoldt, Josef Lutz explained in the application Manual

ofIGBT and MOSFET Power Modules how they can be incorporated and used to produce AC power and
Koval (1999) and co-workers presented similar finding for rural (small-scale) power quality problem. Many
articles have appeared on the impact of new electronics technologies on power quality management, for
example Poisson (2015) and co-workers have described the impact of DSP (digital signal processor) chips on
the problem. Barba (2019) and co-workers’ have described the use of PWM (pulse width- modulation)
control schemes to power quality control. Numerous studies have appeared describing the impact of power
quality problems caused by Systems from early work by McNeil (1983) and co-worker in to more recent
Owen, Edward L. (2006) explained the Origins of the Inverter and this article provides a firm platform for
modifications that can be added on to the inverter designs.
 Rishiraj Singh.2016, Designed and Implemented a Solar Inverter that used MOSFETS and 555timer to

produce a sine wave AC.

Research gap
 There different types of sine wave inverters and they are used in different applications. Square wave, modified

sine wave and pure sine wave inverters. For the different research that was done before, it was focusing on the
production of modified sine wave using power MOSFETS and 555 timer. But in this research, the production of
pure sine wave is proposed using Pulse width modulation and MOSFETS configured in H-Bridge.
 The inverter will be incorporated with a temperature sensor and a cooling fan that will be controlling the heat

inside the inverter to increase its efficiency and a closed loop monitoring system to control a stable out put . 

METHODOLOGY
 The pure sine wave driver will be used together with MOSFETS to produce 240vAC power from12v DC power source.
The N coefficient temperature sensor will be used to detect the heat of the components and activate a fan for the
purpose of cooling the components. For smooth construction of this project the system will be divided into different
sectors namely, DC to AC inversion for the converting of battery power (DC) to electricity (AC), and temperature
sensing system for controlling internal heat of components and
 introduce a closed loop monitoring system.  This system will look at the output of the inverter and check to ensure 
that this is the correct output, if this output is not what it should be then this system has the power to go back and ad
just the settings in the control circuit so that the output is the desired 240 volt RMS sine wave.
PROPOSED BLOCK DIAGRAM

Triangle wave
Voltage reference Sine wave generator
generator

MOSFET driver
Low pass filter
H Bridge

Major Components required

 Oscillator
 Filters
 MOSFETS
 Batteries
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 Jim Doucet,Dan Eggleston,Jeremy Shaw,DC/AC Pure Sine Wave Inverter,MQP Terms A­B­C 2006­
2007Advisor: Professor Stephen J. BitarSponsor: NECAMSID

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