In PWM inverter-fed drives, a variation of Common mode voltage (CMV) causes unbalanced voltage operation in induction motor. Multilevel inverters reduce this problem, but the complexity of the power circuit increases with an increase in the number of inverter voltage levels. In this paper, a five-level inverter is compared with two, three and four levels and this five level structure is propose...

An active power filter implemented with multiples single-phase full bridge voltage-source inverters connected in series (known as cascaded hybrid asymmetric multilevel inverter or binary multilevel VSI) is presented and analyzed in this paper. The proposed active power filter is aimed to compensate current harmonic components in medium and high voltage power distribution systems. A control sche...

This paper proposes a hybrid switching technique for a domestic PV system with AC-module architecture. In this PV system, independent control of PV modules, which are directly connected to DC terminals of a single-phase cascaded multilevel inverter, makes module-level MPPT possible to extract maximum available solar energy, especially in partial shading conditions. As one of the main contributi...

In this paper, a new topology of cascaded multilevel inverter using a reduced number of switches is proposed. The new topology has the advantage of reduced number devices compared to traditional configurations and can be extended to any number of levels. This topology results in reduction of installation area, cost, computational time and has simplicity of control system. This structure consist...

In this paper, a new topology of cascaded multilevel inverter using a reduced number of switches is proposed. The new topology has the advantage of reduced number devices compared to traditional configurations and can be extended to any number of levels. This topology results in reduction of installation area, cost, computational time and has simplicity of control system. This structure consist...

This The Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors (PMSM) are used for medium power applications and preferred over conventional motors like Induction and Synchronous motors due its superior performance, efficiency and controllability. Normal voltage source inverters are suitable only for three phase drives. Cascaded multi-level inverters are used to improve the power quality. The Hexagram inverter h...

The dc sources that feed the multilevel inverter are varying in time, and the switching angles should adapt to the dc source variations. Any variations in the input will result in harmonics at the output. To mitigate the harmonics in the inverter output, GA is used. A genetic algorithm optimization technique is applied to determine the switching angles for a cascaded multilevel inverter. Then, ...

This paper presents detailed modeling and simulation of a compensator for Load balancing and harmonics Compensation based on a five-level cascaded H-bridge multilevel voltage source inverter. This type of compensator, which is installed in parallel with the load, is usually referred to as the shunt active power filters (APF). Nowadays use of high voltage non-linear loads are widely used in indu...

This paper review analysis of the performance of a fuel cell energy source based Multi Level Inverter topology. Multi Level Inverter topologies are suitable in high power application due to their ability to synthesize waveforms with better harmonic spectrum. The Multilevel inverter circuit analysis and selection of proper references discussed based on the formulation switching patterns. A Singl...

A multilevel inverter is capable of generating high-quality stepwise pseudo-sinusoidalvoltage with low THD , applicable to high-power and high-voltage systems. These types of topologiesmay require a large number of switches and power supplies. This leads to much cost, large size, andcomplicated control algorithms. Thus, newer topologies are being proposed to decrease the numberof power electron...