IRJET- Review on Cascaded Quasi-Z-Source Network

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REVIEW ON CASCADED QUASI-Z-SOURCE NETWORK
Aryasree G
AP, Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, VJCET, Vazhakulam
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Abstract - This paper presents a cascaded quasi-Z-source converter that is suitable as a power conditioning unit, to
interconnect low dc voltage producing fuel cells or solar panels to residential loads. The proposed converter have reduced
energy loss, reduced shoot through duty cycle and reduced component values as compared to traditional single stage qZS
converter. The comparison of single stage and cascaded stage qZS converter is given in this paper with same input/output
conditions. A closed loop control scheme is also used for the comparison. The entire system is simulated in Matlab/Simulink.
The simulation results were presented and analyzed. Based on the results which showed the effectiveness of the proposed
cascaded quasi-Z-source inverter some applications are discussed.
Keywords: Quasi-Z-Source, Voltage Source Inverter, Z Source Inverter
I. INTRODUCTION
Due to environmental demands , the renewable energy systems are the one that will become wide spread in future. As a
result of dispersed nature of the renewable energy systems, the electric power will have distributed generation. Distributed
power is a concept that covers a wide scheme used for the local electric power generation from renewable and non-renewable
sources of energy in an environmentally responsible way. The schemes are mainly based on wind energy , solarenergyandfuel
cells .A Fuel Cell (FC) is the most efficient modern approach to distributed powergeneration.Theefficiencyofconversioncould
be as high as 65%-70%.The interconnection of FC to residential load demand a special voltage matching converter [1] .
When fully implemented, this can provide a high quality, reliable, cheap electric power. It offers savings in cost for the
reduction of the losses. The renewable sources when compared to hydroand nuclearpowerplantrequireapowerconditioning
when connected to the domestic loads .Traditional VSI s which is used for power conditioning have the disadvantage that it
always bucks the output voltage and due to this demerit its operation are limited to low voltage . To prevent this a ZSI can be
employed whichagain cause disadvantage of the discontinuous input current .So the qZSI is proposed whichmakehighvoltage
operation possible and also makes the current continous.
Quasi-Z-Source inverter isa LC network which will boost the input voltage.Ithavetwomodesofoperationthatisthenormal
mode and the shoot-through mode .In the normal mode the network act as a normal inverter and in the shoot-through mode it
will act as a short circuit which cannot be employed in the VSI . In the shoot-through mode the inductors will save energy as
shortcircuitcarry high current in the circuit .This stored energy is delivered to the output load in the normalinverteroperation
[2].
It is advisable to decrease the time for which the shoot-through mode comes into picture as energy loss can be prevented.
Also with the increase in the number of inductor whichacts as an energy storage medium the higherenergycanbedeliveredto
load that collected in the short time of the shoot through mode . So the proposal of a cascaded qZS converter will be an efficient
method for obtaining the above said merit .For that a cascaded converter is designed with same legal values of the single stage
and simulation model of the circuits of single and cascaded is tried with same input/output values and results obtained are
discussed.
II. QUASI-Z-SOURCE DC/DC CONVERTER
The qZS converter consists of a qZS network, an inverter, an isolation transformer and voltagedoublerrectifier.The circuit
diagram of the qZS converter is shown in Figure 1.
The qZS converter can be used as a matching converter for interconnecting low voltage producing renewable energy
sources to domestic loads.
Here two modes of operation are there .The normal mode operation and the shoot-through mode operation. The total time
duration can be split into shoot-through and non-shoot through time. So the shoot through duty cycle will come into picture
which is the ratio of shoot through timeperiod and the total time period. The circuitanalysis of qZS is described in the previous
papers from which we can find the advantages lower stress or capacitor rating of C2 , continous input current ,reduction in EMI
problems as the circuit have common dc rail between source and load .

The main features of the qZS converter is that it can compensate the input voltage variations by providing the boost and buck
functions in a single stage. In the qZS inverter, the shoot-through states are used to boost the magnetic energystoredinthedc-
side inductors L1 and L2 without short circuiting the dc capacitors C1 and C2. This increase in magnetic energy, in turn,
provides the boost of the voltage seen on the inverter output during traditional operating states. If the input voltage is high
enough, the shoot-through states are eliminated, and the qZS inverter begins to operate as a traditional VSI [3].
Fig. 1. Quasi-Z-Source DC/DC converter
III. PROPOSED CASCADED QUASI-Z-SOURCE CONVERTER
The qZS converter circuit can be improved by the introduction of a cascaded qZS network. The cascaded (two-stage)
qZS network is derived by the adding of one diode (D2), one inductor (L3), and two capacitors (C3 and C4) to the traditional
qZS inverter. The circuit diagram of the cascaded qZS inverter is shown in Figure 2.The proposed cascaded qZS converteralso
have the same working ways of the traditional qZS converter. But it can reduce the component values of the capacitor and
inductor and also can minimise the shoot-throughdutycycletherebyminimizingthe energylossintheshoot-throughtime. The
mathematical equations will be in the same way as that of the single stage qZS converter that are discussed in previous paper
[3]. Due to the decreased shoot-through duty cycle that can obtained in the cascaded circuit, the values of the inductors and
capacitors of the cascaded qZS network could also be decreased. On the other hand, for the same component ratings and
voltage and current stresses, the qZS coverter with the proposed cascaded qZS network will ensure a higher voltage boost
factor than with traditional solutions. Because of its higher boost factor the cascaded qZS inverter can be used for the
interconnection of low voltage producing renewableenergysourcestothegrid,solarwaterpumpingsystemetc.. Theproposed
converter can be used for for a solar pump system and also for the interconnectionoftherenewableenergysourcestothegrid.

Fig. 2. Cascaded Quasi-Z-Source coverter
The proposed converter canuse the logic that derived from thecontrolprincipleofsinglephaseqZSconverter
.The switching states means the one in which one switch in the leg conduct and in the shoot through modethe two switch inthe
same legconduct .To generate this shoot through statetwo reference signals Upand Uncan be used .If the triangular waveformis
greater than Up or lower than Un the shoot through state will be in the picture .So for this logic we have to develop a control
scheme using gates . The active states are controlled by two pulse generator phase shifted by 180o . NOT gates are used in
between to prevent the simultaneous conduction of the two switch in same leg .The shoot through states are produced by
triangular wave generator ,two comparators and reference signal .Theoperating graph is given in Figure3 . The control circuit
based on the operating graph for obtaining the normal mode and shoor-through mode is given in Figure 4 .
The PWM1 and PWM2 are the two phase generators that are phase shifted by 180o . NOT gate is provided to
prevent the simultaneous conduction . These input are given to the four switches T1 , T2 , T3 , T4 . Thus a normal inverter mode
can be made by means of these logic .The shoot through mode can be obtained by the comparison of the triangular wave G with
the positive and reference signal Up and Un . Whenever the triangular wave go above the positive referencesignalUp andgobelow
the negative reference signal Un it will enter the shoot through mode. Entering the shoot throughmodemeansithavetodevelop
a shortcircuit . It means the two switches in same leg conduct simultaneously .For that the triangularwavegenerator,reference
signals Up and Un and comparators are used and by means an OR gate the pulse signal are given to the four switches .
Fig. 3. Operating graph of the proposed converter

Fig. 4. Control circuit for the proposed inverter
IV. APPLICATIONS
The simulation results will prove that proposed converter is the one that have a better reliability. Based on the above
concept two applications are suggested .One is a solar water pumping system and other is the connection of PV renewable
energy connection to a micro grid .The schematic figure of solar water pumping system using cascaded qZS converter is given
in Figure 5 .The control circuit for grid connection is given in Figure 6.
Fig. 5. Schematic figure of solar water pumping model using cascaded qZSI
Fig. 6. Grid connected qZS converter

V. CONCLUSION
A cascaded quasi-z-source network based inverter is proposed in this paper. The proposed inverter shows a reduction in
shoot-through duty cycle when compared with the traditional single stage quasi-z-source inverter. The proposed cascaded
qZS inverters shoot-through duty cycle was reduced by 46%, when compared with the traditional single stage qZS
inverter. The proposed converter can be used in solar water pumping system and in grid connected PV cell circuit.
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