Multilevel inverters have several advantages over the conventional two level inverters due to their lower switching frequency, reduced switching stresses, low EMI and EMC issues, ability to achieve high voltage levels, low THD etc. Multilevel inverters can synthesize the desired voltage from several levels of DC voltages. This paper presents the comparison of three level Flying capacitor and Ca...

Neutral-point-clamped converters are increasingly applied in industrial drive systems as they allow the use of lower voltage devices in higher voltage applications, provide reduced output voltage total harmonic distortion(THD), and can develop low common mode voltage. Several distinct modulation strategies have been proposed in the past for eliminating the common mode voltage, providing low THD...

Front end current distortion of rectifier converter leads to low power factor, high THD, distribution system losses, neutral harmonic currents, over rated power equipments in a power system. In addition, the presence of harmonics in line currents may lead current distortion, create additional heating and over voltage problem, loading and losses in the utility distribution systems. The aim of th...

OBJECTIVE The authors measured cardiac index in unstable patients after cardiac surgery with the Pressure Recording Analytic Method (PRAM) and compared it with the reference method of thermodilution (ThD) with the pulmonary artery catheter; using the hypothesis that there were no significant differences between the 2 methods. DESIGN A prospective study. SETTING Cardiac surgery intensive car...

AIDS is a pandemic responsible for more than 35 million deaths. The emergence of resistant mutations due to drug use is the biggest cause of treatment failure. Marine organisms are sources of different molecules, some of which offer promising HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (RT) inhibitory activity, such as the diterpenes dolabelladienotriol (THD, IC50 = 16.5 µM), (6R)-6-hydroxydichotoma-3,14-diene...

We describe the design of a micropower digital pulsewidth modulator (PWM) for a hearing instrument Class D amplifier. The PWM embodies a novel delta-compensation ( C) sampling process and a novel pulse generator. The C process is sampled at the same low rate as reported algorithmic sampling processes and it features a similar low total harmonic distortion (THD). Its arithmetic computation is ho...

In order to reduce the total harmonic distortion (THD) of a bandpass-based oscillator, instead of using a conventional hard limiter, a multilevel hard limiter (MHL) is proposed which inherently removes the third and the fifth-order harmonics from the frequency spectrum of its output signal. The input–output characteristic of the proposed MHL contains slope values of only zero and infinity, maki...

This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of various bipolar Multicarrier Pulse Width Modulation (MCPWM) strategies with Sinusoidal reference for three phase Nine level Trinary Source cascaded inverter. A new approach of nine levels is for medium voltage applications. The proposed topology uses reduced number of switching devices and thus reducing losses and low THD in comparison with the co...

This paper proposes and discusses a novel AC/DC converter suitable for small-scaled wind power generation system applications. By introducing flyback cells into the three-phase single-switch Boost circuit, the proposed converter is designed as single-stage and has both rectification and high step-up power conversion functions. It is able to obtain high voltage gain at low input voltage level, a...

This paper investigates the performance analysis of various Multicarrier Pulse Width Modulation strategies with Sinusoidal reference for single phase seven level diode clamped Z-source inverter designed with two intermediate Z-source networks connected between the input source and inverter circuit. The diode clamped Z-source based MLI strategy enhances the fundamental output voltage and reduces...