Total harmonic distortion (THD) is a term used to describe the net deviation of a nonlinear waveform from ideal sine waveform characteristics. Total harmonic distortion is the ratio between the RMS value of the harmonics and the RMS value of the fundamental. In multilevel Inverter As we try to increase the number of levels THD reduces. This paper contains different single phase multilevel inver...

The Neutral Point Clamped (NPC) three-level inverter with Z-source network is a relatively recent converter topology that exhibits both voltage-buck and voltage-boost capability. This concept can be applied to all acto-ac, dc-to-dc, ac-to-dc, and dc-to-ac power conversion whether two-level or multilevel. However, multilevel inverters offer many benefits for higher power applications. Existing p...

Cascade Multilevel Inverters are very popular and have many applications in electric utility and for industrial drives. When these inverters are used for industrial drive directly, the THD contents in output voltage of inverters is very significant index as the performance of drive depends very much on the quality of voltage applied to drive. In this article, the THD contents of 7, 11 and 15 le...

There are problems in the limitations of conventional inverters, especially in high-voltage and high-power applications. Recently multilevel inverters are becoming increasingly popular for high-power applications due to their improved harmonic profile and increased power ratings. Several studies have been reported on multilevel inverters topologies, control techniques, and applications. However...

In this paper a novel multilevel current source inverter structure is proposed. This inverter is likely to be used in low/medium power applications. The proposed topology is analyzed and then compared with conventional inverters in order to validate the superiority of the proposed inverter. In this topology, all the desired current levels can be obtained using lower number of circuit devices. T...

The concept of multilevel inverters introduced about 20 years ago entails performing power conversion in multiple voltage steps to obtain improved power quality, lower switching losses, better electromagnetic compatibility, and higher voltage capability. The benefits are especially clear for medium-voltage drives in industrial applications and are being considered for future naval ship propulsi...

This paper deals with the implementation of cascade multilevel inverter-based STATCOM, which employs H-bridge inverter. The STATCOM system is modeled using the d-q transform, which calculates the instantaneous reactive power. In this paper, a power line conditioner using a cascade multilevel inverter is presented for voltage regulation, harmonic filtering and reactive power compensation (var). ...

This paper presents the simulation of single phase three level, five level, seven level , nine level and eleven level inverters.. These different level inverters are realized by cascading one, two, three HBridges respectively in MATLAB. A multilevel inverter achieves high power ratings and improves the performance of the whole system in terms of harmonics. In this paper a simple control strateg...

Multilevel inputs are capable of generating nearly sinusoidal waveform. The three level inverters use a source with two numbers of capacitors. The operating waveform contains three different levels. The five level inverters use a source with six numbers of capacitors. The operating waveform contains five different levels. The main objective of this paper is to compare the performance of diode c...

The multilevel inverters have become more popular during the recent years. The multilevel inverters are applied in many industrial applications such as static VAR compensators, AC power supplies, drive systems, active power filters, etc. The topologies of multilevel inverter have several advantages such as low distortion in output voltage with relative low switching frequency, low harmonic and ...