Half Cycle Pairs Method for

Harmonic Analysis of
Cycloconverter Voltage Waveform

Naveed Ashraf, Athar Hanif, Umar

Farooq, Muhammad Usman Asad,
Faiqa Rafiq

Abstract
A new scheme to determine the harmonic
components of a single-phase cyclo-conveter
Computes the Fourier coefficients of the resultant
positive and negative half cycle pairs of the output
voltage waveform and adds them as one by the
principle of superposition to determine the Fourier
coefficients of the complete output voltage
waveform.
This broad scheme can be easily extended to the
other types of the single-phase and three-phase acac controllers including the on-off control and
phase angle control.
The presented method is theoretically proved using
MATLAB and PSPICE soft wares.

Cycloconverter

Proposed Scheme

v0 (t ) = a0 + an cos(
n =1

ao = 0
an1 = 0

4
bn1 =
2T

nt
nt
) + bn sin(
)
2
2

T /2

Vm sin(t).sin(
0

n
)
2
bn1 =
(4 n 2 )
4Vm sin(

nt
)d (t )
2

Proposed Scheme (Contd.)

4
bn 2 =
2T

nt

V
sin(
t
).sin(
)d (t )

T /2 m
2

bn = bn1 + bn 2

n
)
2
bn 2 =
(4 n 2 )
4Vm sin(

n
)
2
bn =
(4 n 2 )
8Vm sin(

Proposed Scheme (Contd.)

v0 (t ) = a0 + an cos(
n =1

v0 (t ) =

n =1,3,5

m=

fi
f0

nt
nt
) + bn sin(
)
2
2

n
)
2 sin( nt )
2
(4 n 2 )

8Vm sin(

v0 (t ) =

n =1,3,5

n
)
2 sin( nt )
2
(m 2 n 2 )

8Vm sin(

8Vm sin( )
2 sin( t )
v01 (t ) =
(m2 1)
2

Proposed Scheme (Contd.)

V
v0 (t ) = m sin(t ) +
3
n =1,5,7

n
)
3 sin( nt )
3
(m2 n 2 )

24Vm sin(

n =1

24Vm sin( )
3 sin( t )
v01 (t ) =
2
3
(m 1)

n3

v0 (t ) =

n
n
)[1 + cos( )]
4
4 sin( nt )
4
(nm= 21 n 2 )

32Vm sin(

n =1,3,5

v0 (t ) =

Vm
sin(t ) +
5

n =1,3,7
n 5

n
n
)[1 + 2 cos( )]
5
5 sin( nt )
2
2
(m n )
5

40Vm sin(

32Vm sin( )[1 + cos( )]

4
4 sin( t )
v01 (t ) =
(m2 1)
4

40Vm sin( )[1 + 2 cos( )]

5
5 sin( t )
v01 (t ) =
2
5
(m 1)

Simulation Results
m=2
0.9
0.8

Normalized Amplitude

0.7
0.6
0.5
0.4
0.3
0.2
0.1
0

10

15
20
Harmonic Order

25

30

35

Simulation Results (Contd.)

m=3
0.9
0.8

Normalized Amplitude

0.7
0.6
0.5
0.4
0.3
0.2
0.1
0

10

15
20
Harmonic Order

25

30

35

Simulation Results (Contd.)

m=4
0.9
0.8

Normalized Amplitude

0.7
0.6
0.5
0.4
0.3
0.2
0.1
0

10

15
20
Harmonic Order

25

30

35

Simulation Results (Contd.)

m=5
0.9
0.8

Normalized Amplitude

0.7
0.6
0.5
0.4
0.3
0.2
0.1
0

10

15
20
Harmonic Order

25

30

35

Simulation Results (Contd.)

Simulation Results (Contd.)

Conclusions
This paper illustrates an easy and simple
approach to find the harmonic components
of a single phase cycloconverter. The
presented method for harmonics analysis
describes that the output voltage wave-form
is formed by summation of half cycle pairs.
The harmonic coefficients of the output
voltage are computed by computing the
harmonic coefficients of each individual half
cycle pair. The harmonic coefficients of the
output voltage are computed with the help
of superposition.

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