This paper presents a single-phase Z-source inverter as a power conditioning system for a single phase utility connected system. Z-source inverter is a single-stage topology that has buck-boost feature, which is possible because of additional shoot through state introduced in zero state of the conventional inverter pulse width modulation and provides desired output AC voltage. Small distributed...

A multilevel inverter is mainly used to synthesize a near sinusoidal voltage from several levels of dc voltages. As number of levels increases, the synthesized output waveform has more steps, which provides a staircase wave that approaches a desired waveform. The harmonic distortion of the output wave decreases, approaching zero as the number of voltage levels increases. This paper spotlights t...

Voltage Sag is one of the Power Quality problem and it become severe to industrial customers. Voltage sag causes miss operation to several sensitive equipments. This problem can be mitigating with the Dynamic Voltage Restorer. DVR is a solid state device which is connected in series between the source and load voltages. In this Dynamic Voltage Restorer is implemented using Capacitor Clamped Mul...

In this paper a new sinusoidal PWM inverter suitable for use with power MOSFETs is described. . The output waveforms in the proposed PWM inverter are investigated both theoretically and experimentally. The fundamental component of the three-phase line-to-line voltage is increased by about 15 percent above than that of the conventional sine-wave inverter. The sinusoidal PWM switching scheme allo...

Abstract: The dead-time effect, as an intrinsic problem of the converters based on the half-bridge unit, leads to distortions in the converter output. Although several dead-time effect compensation or elimination methods have been proposed, they cannot fully remove the dead-time effect of blanking delay error, because the output current polarity is difficult detect accurately. This paper utiliz...

The need for high power apparatus in industry has increased in recent years. Multilevel inverters have developed as easy alternatives for such power requirements. Multilevel inverters consist of a group of semiconductor switches and a set of voltage source components like capacitors or independent sources. The basic concept of these inverters depends on using this series of switches and sources...

The aim of this project is to model a six step discontinuous current mode inverter fed to a Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (PMSM) drive using MATLAB/SIMULINK. The dq-axis Voltage-Current and Torque relation in terms of machine parameters are used along with a six step 120 degree mode inverter and gate drive using MATLAB/SIMULINK. There is also a provision for easy changes to the machine par...

in this paper, computer simulation of a three-phase synchronous motor drive is described. this drive/system is supplied with a new type of pulse-width modulated voltage source inverter (pwm vsi) whose amplitude of the first harmonic, compared to a conventional sinusoidal pwm vsi, is increased by about 17% and whose amplitude of higher harmonics is also reduced inversely proportional to their or...

This paper presents the design and analysis of a parallel connected inverter configuration of. The configuration consists of parallel connected three-phase dc/ac inverter. Series resistors added to the inverter output to maintain same current in each inverter of the two parallel inverters, and to reduce the circulating current in the parallel inverters to the minimum. High frequency third harmo...

In this paper a new configuration of the single-phase ninelevel voltage source inverter is described. The proposed inverter is based on modified H-bridge converter. To validate the proposed inverter, a low power prototype inverter has been designed and implemented. Instead of sixteen controlled switches as in conventional method, this topology requires only eight switches to obtain nine level o...