Multilevel inverters supplied from equal and constant dc sources almost don’t exist in practical applications. The variation of the dc sources affects the values of the switching angles required for each specific harmonic profile, as well as increases the difficulty of the harmonic elimination’s equations. This paper presents an extremely fast optimal solution of harmonic elimination of multile...

– One promising technology to interface battery packs in electric and hybrid electric vehicles are multilevel converters. In the work presented here, it is shown how the switching times (angles) in a multilevel inverter can be chosen to achieve a required fundamental voltage and not generate speciÞc higher order harmonics. The method gives a complete solution to the problem in that all possible...

Dead-time is necessary to prevent the short circuit of the power supply in PWM Inverters or converters. But, it will result in output voltage deviations and in case of lower values of current, lower order harmonics will be taken into account. So, dead-time elimination is required in all PWM Inverters or converters. This paper is dealing with a summary of dead-time effects in PWM inverters and v...

In this paper, a genetic algorithm (GA) optimization technique is applied to cascaded multilevel inverter to remove pre specified order of harmonics and to reduce THD. Genetic Algorithm is developed as the preferred solution algorithm of specific harmonic elimination (PWM-SHE) switching pattern. This paper describes an efficient genetic algorithm that reduces significantly the computational bur...

All fundamental frequency estimators based on spectral analysis rely heavily on a proper harmonic selection of the voice analyzed. Since in practice other spectral peaks pertaining to sources external to the speech considered may be present in the signal, various schemes have been designed to ensure a satisfactory elimination of non pertinent harmonics. This paper introduces a new harmonic sele...

PWM inverters ideally shift the output voltage spectrum around the switching frequency. Thus ideally PWM inverters do not introduce any significant lower order harmonics. However, in real systems, due to deadtime effect, device drops and other non-idealities lower order harmonics are present. In order to attenuate these lower order harmonics and hence to improve the quality of output current, t...

This paper studies a particular single-stage power-factor-correction (PFC) switching regulator employing a discontinuous-conduction-mode (DCM) boost-input cell and a continuous-current-mode (CCM) forward output cell. Although this single-stage PFC regulator can provide a reasonably high power factor when its PFC stage is operating in discontinuous mode, substantial reduction in line-current har...

The uncontrolled three-phase bridge rectifier has the least line current distortion among six-pulse rectifiers; however, its total harmonic distortion (THD) of 31.08% is unacceptable as per the contemporary power quality standards. This paper seeks to address the issue by elimination of triplen harmonics in the line currents by providing a deltawye transformer at the ac interface i.e. between t...