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Issue: Volume 27 - Number 1
Publishing Date: março 2022
Editor-in-Chief: Marcelo Lobo Heldwein
Editor Affiliation: Federal University of Santa Catarina
A Transformerless Common-Ground Two-Switch Single-Phase Inverter for Battery Energy Storage System Applications
Gabriel de Oliveira Assunção, Ivo Barbi
15-25
http://dx.doi.org/10.18618/REP.2021.1.0022
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Title: A TRANSFORMERLESS COMMON-GROUND TWO-SWITCH SINGLE-PHASE INVERTER FOR BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM APPLICATIONS

Keywords: Battery energy storage system, Common-ground inverter, Leakage Current, Parasitic capacitance, Transformerless inverter

Abstract
This paper proposes a transformerless common-ground single-phase inverter for battery energy storage system (BESS) applications. With regard to conventional converters operating as a voltage source inverter (VSI), the proposed converter offers the advantage of a common connection between the battery bank negative terminal and the ground. Hence, the common-mode voltage becomes continuous while common-mode currents flowing through parasitic capacitances located between the battery bank and the grounded metallic frame are eliminated, allowing operation without a transformer. This new topology has only two power semiconductors, two inductors and one capacitor, without the need for a filter on the AC grid side. The converter operation is described and the relevant equations for sizing are presented along with the main characteristics. A 1 kW non-optimized prototype was dimensioned, built and tested to validate in practice the theoretical analysis, and a maximum efficiency of 95.25% was obtained. Due to the simplicity, low number of active components, no clamping circuit requirement and the common-ground, this topology is a very interesting option for the above-mentioned application.

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