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 ...

Multi-level inverter technology has emerged recently as a very important alternative in the area of high-power medium-voltage energy control. In this paper, the most important topologies like diode-clamped inverter (neutral-point clamped), capacitorclamped (flying capacitor), and cascaded multi cell with separate dc sources. In this paper, we proposed a new multi-level inverter topology based o...

The concept of multilevel inverters, introduced about 20 years ago entails performing power conversion in multiple voltage steps to obtain improved power quality, lower switching losses, better electromagnetic compatibility, and higher voltage capability. The benefits are especially clear for medium-voltage drives in industrial applications and are being considered for future naval ship propuls...

A 21-levels cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter topology based on three-phase voltage source inverter has been proposed as a superior replacement for conventional two-level in high voltage applications. In this work we have presented the usage of the new technique called virtual synchronous generator based synchron verter model to operate the multilevel inverter as synchronous generator, and ...

Solar energy sources are widely available, but in the form of DC source. It is connected in distribution system by means of converting DC/AC supply. It is achieved by means of inverter. To get efficient AC source we use multilevel inverter (MLI). The popularly used inverter is cascaded H-bridge MLI. As the step increases, the AC output nearly becomes same as sinusoidal. The purpose of the proje...

This paper presents a cascaded H-bridge multilevel boost inverter for electric vehicle (EV) and hybrid EV (HEV) applications implemented without the use of inductors. Currently available power inverter systems for HEVs use a dc–dc boost converter to boost the battery voltage for a traditional three-phase inverter. The present HEV traction drive inverters have low power density, are expensive, a...

In this paper, we present the performance of a hybrid alternative phase opposition disposition pulse width modulation technique for soft switched cascaded five level inverters. The proposed modulation scheme inherits the switching loss reduction along with reduced harmonic performance of cascaded multilevel inverter fed drive system. The inverter topology used here has recently suggested in the...

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 a micro controller based control of multilevel inverter for single phase Induction motor. IGBT is used as power element. Pulse width modulation techniques (PWM), introduced three decades ago, are the most used methods to control the voltage and frequency supplied to electrical AC machines. This work proposes a new switching scheme for the cascaded H-Bridge multilevel inverte...

This paper presents the simulation of 3, 5, 7level inverters. The realization of these three different levels is done by cascading one, two, three H-bridges in series respectively in MATLAB. The use of simple control strategy which is applied for switching the switches at appropriate conducting angles with proper delays is presented in this paper. The reduction in harmonics is done with the hel...