Performance analysis of SHE-PWM using Fourier Series and Newton-Raphson analysis

The performance of inverter has become a vital role in contributing effective power system nowadays. However the major issue that will reduce the inverter performance is the harmonic distortions that contribute to power losses. Thus, there are a variety of controls techniques have been implemented for inverters switching such as square wave, SHE-PWM, unipolar and bipolar. The square wave type inverter produces output voltage in square shape which has simple logic control and power switches. Next, unipolar and bipolar techniques are using comparator to compare the reference voltage waveform with the triangular waveform. The difference between unipolar and bipolar is there are two reference signals which are compared with the triangular waveform for unipolar switching. On the other hand, bipolar switching compares triangular waveform with a reference signal. Selective Harmonic Elimination Pulse-Width Modulation (SHE-PWM) is another control technique for inverters. This research propose SHE-PWM as a low switching frequency strategy that uses Fourier Series and Newton-Raphson analysis to calculate the switching angles for elimination of harmonic distortion. Fourier Series is used to determine the amplitude of any odd harmonic in the output signal whereas Newton-Raphson is used to solve the equation for finding switching angles. As a result, SHE-PWM can select the low frequency harmonic components need to be eliminated and reduce the harmonic distortion. It also prevents the harmonic distortion that sensitive to the inverter performance