A combination of rectifier and DC – DC chopper is useful in feeding DC loads where the DC input to the loads needs to be stepped up or down. Both rectifier and chopper are based on power electronic switches which inject harmonics in the system. This harmonics is an undesirable effect which should be mitigated effectively. For this, passive harmonic filters are used. Passive harmonic filters are...

0142-0615/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Ltd. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijepes.2012.08.024 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel./fax: +90 312 212 13 3 E-mail address: [email protected] (I. Colak). In this study, an enhanced SPWM modulation scheme is developed in order to minimize total harmonic ratio (THD) by eliminating the side band harmonics that are not paid attention in regular modulation sc...

Many inverters play an important role in transmitting and processing energy to power system networks. To reduce the cost size of multilevel inverters, various topologies have been included literature. But these do not look at complete harmonic distortion output waveform. In this study, a modern inverter structure, mutated H-bridge is adopted that demands small amount switches, driver circuits, ...

Introduction. In recent years, a growing variety of technical applications have necessitated the employment more powerful equipment. Power electronics and megawatt power levels are required in far too many medium voltage motor drives utility applications. It is challenging to incorporate grid with only one semiconductor that has been extensively modified. As result, high settings, multiple conv...

Multilevel inverter (MLI) has emerged as a key player in medium and high voltage application due to its tremendous popularity in reduced voltage stress across the power switches and low total harmonic distortion in output waveform. MLI requires large amount of power switches to perform conversion as compared to conventional converter. In MLI, as the number of levels increase number of switches ...

Received Jan 3, 2017 Revised Mar 3, 2017 Accepted Mar 17, 2017 In this paper a novel 5 switch seven level DC-AC inverter is being proposed. The proposed multilevel inverter uses reduced number of switches as compared to the switches used in the conventional multilevel inverter. The inverter has been designed to generate a 7 level AC output using 5 switches. The voltage stress on each of the swi...

This paper describes a new strategy for pulsewidth modulation (PWM) optimized by a direct method and the application of genetic algorithms (GA) to minimize the harmonic content specifically the fifth and seventh harmonic of the total content, based on the minimum total harmonic distortion (THD). Described the development of the method, the guidelines to take into account including the algorithm...

Unidirectional electric current flow, such as that found in a diode, is essential for modern electronics. It usually occurs at asymmetric interfaces such as p-n junctions or metal/semiconductor interfaces with Schottky barriers. We report on a diode effect associated with the direction of bulk electric polarization in BiFeO3: a ferroelectric with a small optical gap edge of approximately 2.2 el...

The enantiomeric homogeneity of light-driven molecular motors based on overcrowded alkenes is crucial in their application as either unidirectional rotors or as chiral multistate switches. It was challenging to obtain these compounds as single enantiomers via the established synthetic procedures due to loss of optical purity in the key step, i.e., the Barton-Kellogg olefination reaction. Search...