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A bidirectional, sinusoidal, high-frequency inverter design E.Koutroulis, J.Chatzakis, K.Kalaitzakis and N.C.Voulgaris Abstract: A new method for the design of a bidirectional inverter based on the sinusoidal pulse-width modulation principle and the use of a low-cost and lightweight ferrite-core transformer is presented. The inverter is designed for either ohmic or inductive loads. In the case of inductive loads the reactive power is transferred back to the DC input power source using a new active rectifier design. The inverter is controlled by two minimum-time feedback loops, providing relatively low output voltage distortion (less than 2% for DC input higher than 24V) and good load regulation (better than 2%), while the inverter efficiency remains relatively constant (from 80 to 85%) over a wide output power range (75 to 200W) and DC input voltage range (23 to 28V). Theoretical results are experimentally verified using a laboratory prototype. 1 Introduction energy is stored in batteries, it is desirable to have a bidirec- tional power flow. This is also important in the case of DC/AC power converters (inverters) are widely used today reactive loads, where the reactive power must be trans- mainly in uninterruptible power supply systems, AC motor ferred back to the DC input source to increase the overall drives, induction heating and renewable energy source system efficiency. The implementation of bidirectional systems. The simplest form of an inverter is the bridge-type power flow by connecting a flyback converter at the output [1], shown in Fig. 1a, where a power bridg