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Investigations on EMI Mitigation Techniques: Intent to Reduce Grid-Tied PV Inverter Common Mode Current and Voltage

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  • Umashankar Subramaniam

    (Renewable Energy Lab, Department of Communications and Networks, College of Engineering, Prince Sultan University (PSU), Riyadh 66833, Saudi Arabia)

  • Sagar Mahajan Bhaskar

    (Renewable Energy Lab, Department of Communications and Networks, College of Engineering, Prince Sultan University (PSU), Riyadh 66833, Saudi Arabia)

  • Dhafer J.Almakhles

    (Renewable Energy Lab, Department of Communications and Networks, College of Engineering, Prince Sultan University (PSU), Riyadh 66833, Saudi Arabia)

  • Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban

    (Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, 6700 Esbjerg, Denmark)

  • Zbigniew Leonowicz

    (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wyb. Wyspianskiego 27, 50370 Wroclaw, Poland)

Abstract

Power inverters produce common mode voltage (CMV) and common mode current (CMC) which cause high-frequency electromagnetic interference (EMI) noise, leakage currents in electrical drives application and grid-connected systems, which consequently drops the efficiency of the system considerably. This CMV can be mitigated by designing suitable EMI filters and/or investigating the effects of different modulation strategies. In this paper, the effect of various modulation techniques over CMV and CMC are investigated for two-level and three-level inverters. It is observed that the modified third harmonic injection method reduced the CMV and CMC in the system by 60%. This modified pulse width modulation (PWM) technique is employed along with EMI chokes which results in reduced distortion of the system.

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  • Umashankar Subramaniam & Sagar Mahajan Bhaskar & Dhafer J.Almakhles & Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban & Zbigniew Leonowicz, 2019. "Investigations on EMI Mitigation Techniques: Intent to Reduce Grid-Tied PV Inverter Common Mode Current and Voltage," Energies, MDPI, vol. 12(17), pages 1-18, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:12:y:2019:i:17:p:3395-:d:263621
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