Multilevel inverter (MLI) has emerged as a key player in medium and high voltage application due to its tremendous popularity in reduced voltage stress across the power switches and low total harmonic distortion in output waveform. MLI requires large amount of power switches to perform conversion as compared to conventional converter. In MLI, as the number of levels increase number of switches ...

This paper presents method of selecting switching angles of a cascaded multilevel inverter so as to produce required fundamental voltage along with improved staircase waveform in terms of harmonics. Cascaded multilevel inverter uses number of DC sources, for k sources number of levels will be 2k+1 and leads to k number of non-linear equations to be solved. Many approaches can be made regarding ...

In this paper a novel symmetric multilevel converter structure based on cascaded converter family is proposed. This inverter is likely to be used in low/medium voltage applications. The proposed topology is analyzed and then compared with conventional multilevel cascade converters. Comparison depicts the proposed inverter superiority over the conventional inverters. In this topology, all the de...

Total harmonic distortion (THD) is a term used to describe the net deviation of a nonlinear waveform from ideal sine waveform characteristics. Total harmonic distortion is the ratio between the RMS value of the harmonics and the RMS value of the fundamental. In multilevel Inverter As we try to increase the number of levels THD reduces. This paper contains different single phase multilevel inver...

This paper presents an optimization of the electric power quality by designing a 9 steps multilevel power inverter, which adopts a multi-PWM optimized using genetic algorithms (GA), and minimizing Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) of the first 50 harmonics to about 0%. This optimization is considered an alternative technique because it reduces the expression used to quantify TDH numerically. Part...

– The mathematical theory of resultants is used to compute the switching angles in a multilevel converter so that it produces the required fundamental voltage while at the same time cancels out unwanted order harmonics. Experimental results are given for the three DC source case. It is shown that for a range of the modulation index mI , the switching angles can be chosen to produce the desired ...

This paper focuses on the development of capacitor voltage balancing methods in a flying capacitor multilevel inverter (FCMLI) fed induction motor drive. For improve the performance of flying capacitor multilevel inverter to implement a switching pattern selection scheme. This reduces capacitor voltage fluctuation without using voltage feedback and RLC Filter circuits connected in parallel with...

Received Jan 14, 2017 Revised Mar 14, 2017 Accepted Mar 29, 2017 One of the preferred choices of electronic power conversion for high power applications are multilevel inverters topologies finding increased attention in industry. Cascaded H-Bridge multilevel inverter is one of these topologies reaching the higher output voltage, power level and higher reliability due to its modular topology. Le...

– Direct Torque Control using Multilevel Inverter (DTC-MLI) strategy has attracted a great deal of interest in recent years, in the field of high power induction machines or permanent magnet machines drives applications for high dynamic response. This proposal combines the advantages of the multilevel inverter with direct torque controlled based schemes. Numerous efforts have been accomplished ...

This paper presents a novel topology of single-phase multilevel inverter for low and high power applications. It consists of polarity (Level) generation circuit and H Bridge. The proposed topology can produce higher output voltage levels by connecting dc voltage sources   in series and parallel. The proposed topology utilizes minimum number of power electronic devices which helps in reduction o...