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...

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...

A primary goal of these systems is to increase the energy injected to the grid by keeping track of the maximum power point (MPP) of the panel, by reducing the switching frequency, and by providing high reliability. In the last years, multilevel converter topologies have been also considered in PV applications. Multilevel converter topologies can generate high-quality voltage waveforms with powe...

Multilevel inverters are considered as an alternative in the field of high power and medium voltage applications. They can synthesize the desired voltage from several levels of DC voltages. As the number of levels increases the output waveform can be approximated to a sine wave there by reducing the Total Harmonic Distortion. This paper presents the analysis and comparison of conventional three...

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, ...

Direct Torque Control with Multilevel Inverter (DTC-MLI) has emerged recently in high dynamics AC drives fields for induction machines or permanent magnet machines application. In this paper, a review on a variety of techniques and concepts of direct torque control of multilevel inverter-fed induction machines is presented. The techniques and concept involved are classified as follows: Look-up ...

This paper deals with simulation of multilevel inverter based DVR. The DVR circuit produces high quality voltage since it uses a nine level inverter. This DVR gives better solution to the voltage sag problem by injecting a voltage with reduced harmonics. DVR controls the voltage applied to the load by injecting voltage of proper amplitude and phase angle. Thus DVR is responsible for restoring q...

Both Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs) and Electric Vehicles (EVs) need a traction motor and a power inverter to drive the traction motor. The requirements for the power inverter include high peak power, optimum consumption of energy, low output harmonics and inexpensive circuit. In this paper, a new structure of multilevel inverter with reduced number of switches is proposed for electric vehicle...

This paper proposes a single-phase seven-level inverter for grid-connected photovoltaic systems, with a novel pulse width-modulated (PWM) control scheme. Three reference signals that are identical to each other with an offset that is equivalent to the amplitude of the triangular carrier signal were used to generate the PWM signals. The inverter is capable of producing seven levels of output-vol...