PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF PV BASED DC-AC CONVERTER FOR DIELECTRIC HEATING

This paper proposes a new PV based DC/AC converter for a dielectric application which consists of a solar panel, SEPIC DC/DC converter, resonant inverter and a dielectric application such as dielectric heating. The output of the solar panel is low voltage hence SEPIC DC/DC converter is used to boost the voltage which is later fed to the resonant inverter to converter the DC/AC and the converted AC voltage is utilized for dielectric heating. This system is used for high power applications and provides a better performance in terms of rise, time settling. The comparison between open loop with and closed loop system along with and without disturbance is presented in this paper.