in order to reduce the volume and size of distribution power transformer, precise and extended controlling of transformer output, the conventional transformers are replaced by intelligent universal transformers (iuts). in this paper, an iut, typical of iran national grid, with the voltage ratio of 20kv:380 v is designed and simulated. regarding the iut implementation, a cascaded h-bridge invert...

This paper presents a new control technique to regulate the capacitor voltage in cascaded multilevel inverters. Without requiring transformers, the scheme proposed here allows the use of a single dc power source with the remaining n − 1 dc sources being capacitors. This paper focuses mainly to achieve an effective capacitor voltage regulation with the Phase shift modulation and energy storage u...

-----------------------------------------------------ABSTRACT----------------------------------------------------In recent years, multilevel inverters have gained much attention in the application areas of medium voltage and high power owing to their various advantages such as lower common mode voltage, lower voltage stress on power switches, lower dv/dt ratio to supply lower harmonic contents ...

This Paper aims to extend the knowledge about the performance of different cascaded multilevel inverter through harmonic analysis. Large electric drives and utility require advanced power electronics converter to meet high power demands. As a result, multilevel power converter structure has been introduced as an alternative in high power and medium voltage situations. A multilevel converter not...

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 ...

Recently, several numbers of multilevel inverter topologies have been presented that the numbers of power electronic devices have been reduced. This paper presents a novel single-phase topology for multilevel inverter. The proposed topology is based on cascaded connection of basic units. This topology uses minimum lumber of power electronic components such as IGBT, gate driver circuit and antip...

Multilevel voltage source inverters have several advantages compare to traditional voltage source inverter. These inverters reduce cost, get better voltage waveform and decrease Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) by increasing the levels of output voltage. In this paper Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) methods are used to find the switching angles for achieving to the m...

In this paper three-phase isolated source and non-isolated source cascaded two level inverter (CTLI) topology is used for grid connected photovoltaic (PV) system. The CTLI is one of the widespread topology in multilevel inverter. In this work, both topology isolated source and non-isolated source CTLI system are operated to supply active power with available solar irradiance and to supply react...

MultiLevel Inverter (MLI) is used in applications that need high voltage and high current especially for Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS) controllers. The topologies of multilevel inverter have several advantages such as lower Total Harmonic Distortion (THD), lower ElectroMagnetic Interference (EMI) generation and high output voltage. The main feature of Modular Structured Multilevel Inv...

Multilevel inverters have become more popular over the years in high power medium voltage applications without the use of a transformer and with promise of less disturbance & reduced harmonic distortion. In this paper, two types of multilevel converter in three phase configuration, cascaded H-Bridge multilevel inverter (CMLI) and diode clamped multilevel inverter (DCMLI) of 5 and 7-level are mo...