Multilevel inverter technology has emerged recently as a very important alternative in the area of high-power mediumvoltage energy control. This paper presents the most important topologies like diode-clamped inverter (neutral-point clamped), capacitor-clamped (flying capacitor), and cascaded multicell with separate dc sources. Emerging topologies like asymmetric hybrid cells and soft-switched ...

Introduction: Multilevel converters are finding considerable attention in academia and industry as one of the preferred choices for high power conversion applications, such as traction drives, active filters, reactive power compensators, photovoltaic power conversion, uninterruptible power supplies, static compensators and flexible AC transmission systems. In general, multilevel converters are ...

This dissertation presents voltage stabilization techniques for flying capacitors used in soft-switching multilevel active power filters. The proposed active filter has proved to be a solution for power system harmonics produced by static high power converters. However, voltage unbalance of the clamping capacitors in the active filter in practical applications was observed due to its unequal pa...

This paper presents a comprehensive review on three basic types of multilevel inverters i.e., diode-clamped, flying-capacitor, and cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter and their variation for photovoltaic power system. The electrical power generated form photovoltaic power system is in DC form. Hence, it is necessary to be controlled and converted to useful form. Inverter is a power electronic...

The Neutral Point Clamped (NPC) three-level inverter with Z-source network is a relatively recent converter topology that exhibits both voltage-buck and voltage-boost capability. This concept can be applied to all acto-ac, dc-to-dc, ac-to-dc, and dc-to-ac power conversion whether two-level or multilevel. However, multilevel inverters offer many benefits for higher power applications. Existing p...

To use fewer components to construct a multilevel inverter (MLI) with more levels and high quality of the output voltage, hybrid MLI is developed by combining double-mode switched-capacitor (SC) unit T-type fed flying capacitors (FCs). The SC used boost amplitude voltage twice dc input while responsible for increasing number levels. A total ten transistors, four capacitors, two diodes are gener...