Analysis of Leakage Current and DC Injection in Transformerless PV Inverter Topologies

摘要

Considering low efficiencies of solar panels, the reliability and efficiency of power electronic interface has to be ensured. Transformerless PV inverters increases the efficiency by nearly 2% and decreases cost by 25%. With no galvanic isolation comes the problem of dc injection and ground leakage current which pauses serious problems to core saturation of distribution transformers, cable corrosion, Power quality and EMI problems and has to be limited as per IEEE standards. This paper gives an analysis of leakage current flowing through the parasitic capacitance and also the DC injection in the output of the inverter. Analysis is done for various values of parasitic capacitance. Five different HBridge derived topologies and PWM techniques are evaluated on the basis of leakage current and DC injection.