Linear AC power supplies can be replaced by their nonlinear switching counterparts due to the lower voltage drops and higher efficiency and power density of switching-mode inverters. Multilevel cascaded H-bridge (CHB) converters are the preferred inverter structure because of modular configuration, control, and protection. The output voltage quality in CHB converters depends on the number of ou...

This paper presents a single-phase multistring Multi-level photovoltaic (PV) inverter topology for gridconnected PV systems with a novel hybrid Hbridge inverter. The proposed novel cascaded Hybrid H-bridge produces higher voltage levels with less number of devices. This will reduce the number of gate drivers and protection circuits requirement, this inurn reduces the cost increase the reliabili...

This paper presents a new cascaded multilevel inverter topology in asymmetric configuration. Initially general topology is presented and then extended for higher number of stages. In this paper a new cascade diagonal dc source multilevel inverter topology is proposed, which included the increased number of output voltage levels with minimum number of switches as well as with minimum dc voltage ...

Electrified vehicles on the market today all use the classical two-level inverter as the propulsion inverter. This thesis analyse the potential of using a cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter as the propulsion inverter. With a multilevel inverter, the battery is divided into several parts and the inverter can now create voltages in smaller voltage levels than the two-level inverter. This, amon...

This paper presents the performance analysis of asymmetrical cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter based DSTATCOM in the distribution network. For this, seven level asymmetrical cascaded inverter based DSTATCOM is proposed for the compensation of 11 kV distribution network. The paper also presents the comparative analysis for different asymmetric inverters. For this, 7,9,11 and 13 levels with u...

This paper proposes a novel topology of multilevel current source inverter which is suitable to apply in low/medium voltage. The proposed topology is capable of producing desirable bidirectional output current levels. Furthermore, it can employ symmetrical DC current sources as well as asymmetrical ones which is a significant advantage. Asymmetrical mode makes it possible to generate a great nu...

In this study, a novel topology for symmetrical voltage source multilevel inverter is proposed, which comprises series connection of basic unit cells with H-bridge. It offers same voltage level with lower number of power semiconductor switches as compared with traditional cascaded Hbridge and other recent topologies, thereby reducing the number of gate drivers which in turn reduce the installat...

A novel switched-capacitor-based cascaded multilevel inverter is proposed in this paper, which is constructed by a switched-capacitor frontend and H-Bridge backend. Through the conversion of series and parallel connections, the switched capacitor frontend increases the number of voltage levels. The output harmonics and the component counter can be significantly reduced by the increasing number ...

A generalized formulation of Selective Harmonic Elimination (SHE) PWM for Multilevel Inverter is recently formulated in literature which can eliminate a large number of lower order harmonics. Various methods for calculating the firing angles for SHE PWM are known and still research in this area is ongoing. This paper presents a MATLAB based approach for modeling and simulation method suitable f...

The Diode Clamped Multilevel Inverter (DCMLI) is an attractive type multilevel inverter due to its robustness. This paper discusses new modulation strategies for a single phase five level H-bridge type DCMLI with reduced components as compared to conventional DCMLI. The chosen multi level inverter is controlled with multicarrier based Sinusoidal Pulse Width Modulation (SPWM) technique with Vari...