For low-cost isolated ac/dc power converters adopting high-voltage dc-link, research efforts focus on single-stage multilevel topologies. This paper proposes the design of boost derived three level isolated single-stage PFC converter. The proposed topology significantly reduces the switching losses and zero current switching with zero voltage switching. This topology achieved through an effecti...

345 Abstract—In this paper Static Synchronous Compensator (STATCOM) is used for voltage stability and the compensation of reactive power. The STATCOM contains an Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT) based voltage source converter for voltage control and reactive power compensation. The STATCOM is used to control the reactive power with the voltage source converter in combination with a DC v...

This paper deals with the control of voltage and frequency of a wind turbine driven isolated asynchronous generator. The controller consists of an IGBT (Insulated Gate Bipolar Junction Transistor) based 3-leg voltage source converter and a battery at its DC link. The controller is having bidirectional flow capability of active and reactive powers by which it controls the system voltage and freq...

This paper presents a Modified control method for Space Vector Modulated (SVM) Z Source inverters. Proposed algorithm provides a modified voltage vector with single stage controller having one degree of freedom wherein traditional controllers have two degrees of freedom. Through this method of control, the full utilization of the dc link input voltage and keeping the lowest voltage stress acros...

The paper presents a current controlled High Frequency AC (HFAC) link based on Matrix Converter (MC) to interface a photovoltaic (PV) system with the grid. The proposed switching scheme for the MC is based on the hysteresis current control and the sign of the input voltage waveform. A strategy for controlling the HFAC link converter to extract the maximum power by regulating the terminal voltag...

This paper proposes a high voltage ratio and low ripple interleaved boost DC-DC converter, which can be used to reduce the output voltage ripple. This converter transfers the low DC voltage of fuel cell to high DC voltage in DC link. The structure of the converter is parallel with two voltage-doubler boost converters by interleaving their output voltages to reduce the voltage ripple ratio. Besi...

This paper presents a control for a three phase three-level neutral point clamped inverter (NPC) for grid connected photovoltaic (PV) system. The maximum power point tracking (MPPT) is capable of extracting maximum power from the photovoltaic (PV) array connected to each DC link voltage level. The MPPT algorithm is solved by Perturb&Observe method. The MPPT system is integrated with the DC-link...

This paper presents the implementation of Single Phase 7 level Multilevel DC link (MLDCL) Inverter with Half Bridge Cell topology. For N level inverter, (N-1)/2 half bridge cells are required with the same number of voltage sources. In this inverter topology, 3 Half Bridge Cells are used along with 3 voltage sources, each have 100V DC. These half bridges are connected in series to form a Multil...

A dual two-level inverter fed open-end winding induction motor drive with a single DCpower supply is proposed. The proposed scheme produces voltage space vector locations identical to those of a conventional three-level inverter. In the conventional neutral-clamped three-level inverter, the series-connected DC link capacitors carry the load current, resulting in a fluctuating neutral point. Als...

For hybrid electric vehicles, the batteries and the drive dc link may be at different voltages. The batteries are at low voltage to obtain higher volumetric efficiencies, and the dc link is at higher voltage to have higher efficiency on the motor side. Therefore, a power interface between the batteries and the drive’s dc link is essential. This power interface should handle power flow from batt...