Abstract. A novel multilevel active rectifier based on series connection of asymmetrical H-bridge cells is presented in this paper. The converter can generate seven voltage levels with eight power switches. However it can lead the output capacitor voltage unbalanced. Then PI controller has been applied to guarantee the output DC voltage in the outer loop. A proportion controller is used to cont...

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, ...

Renewable energy is evolved from natural sources. Photovoltaic (PV) and fuel cells are commonly used Renewable energy sources. A derived DC-DC converter is suggested for efficient renewable energy sources. An efficient Boost converter (BC) topology is discussed in this paper for renewable energy sources. The merits of this topology are reduced EME (Electromagnetic emission), fast transient resp...

The distributed generation (DG) systems based on the renewable energy sources have rapidly developed in recent years. These DG systems are powered by micro sources such as fuel cells, photovoltaic (PV) systems, and batteries. The micro grid concept consists of two stages, in the first stage the low level voltage from the pv cell is converted to high level voltage by using DC-DC converter. In th...

This paper deals with new hybrid multilevel inverter fed induction motor drive. It focuses on asymmetrical topologies, the general function of this multi level inverter is to synthesize a desired voltage from several separate dc source. This hybrid topology has more advantageous of industrial applications. In conventional methods, the need of converters to supply the cells of reversible multile...

Photovoltaic(PV) systems are expected to play an important role in future energy production. An asymmetrical interleaved high step-up converter is used to get high step up gain to step up the input energy which is obtained from PV panel without operating at an extreme duty ratio. The traditional inverter which is used to convert the converter output energy from DC to AC, contains a line frequen...