This paper presents a detailed harmonic analysis in terms of Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) for different power circuit topologies of multi level inverter fed induction motor drives. The most common multilevel inverter topologies are the neutral-point-clamped inverter (NPC), flying capacitor inverter (FC), and cascaded H-bridge inverter (CHB). This work is to analyze the performance of all the...

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...

In this paper comparative study of proposed hybrid multilevel inverter (HMI) operating in modified pulse width modulation (PWM) mode with cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter (CHMI) is done. Two types of HMIs are proposed with same configuration. To control the two HMIs, modified PWM techniques are derived from sinusoidal pulse width modulation (SPWM) to reduce the switching losses in the inve...

Higher power levels can be obtained from utilizing lower voltage levels which was the theory proposed over thirty years ago. Conversion of DC to AC having desired output voltage and frequency can be obtained from two types of inverters which are single level and multilevel inverter (MLI). Amongst all MLI topologies, Cascaded H-Bridge type is taken into consideration for this paper. Advantages o...

The multi level inverters are mainly classified as Diode clamped, Flying capacitor inverter and cascaded multi level inverter. The cascaded H-bridge multilevel control method is very easy when compare to other multilevel inverter because it doesn‟t require any clamping diode and flying capacitor. The simulation had been carried for single leg of three phase three and five level Half-bridge modu...

This paper analyses synchronization strategies for cascaded H-Bridge multi level inverter topologies with carrier based sinusoidal phase shifted pulse width modulation technique. In phase shifted pulse width modulation technique, a separate carrier is used for each H-Bridge. The carriers are generally phase shifted from each other by π/n Rad (n=No. of HBs). Hence, the positions of carriers w.r....

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...

This paper focuses on developing a low cost and a low harmonic traditional three level inverter (H-Bridge) using pulse pattern. Multilevel inverter as compared to traditional three level inverters have advantages like low harmonic contents and low electromagnetic interference (EMI) outputs and can operate on several voltage levels. The drawbacks includes: The requirement of isolated power suppl...

This paper presents a hybrid cascaded H-bridge multilevel motor drive Direct Torque Control (DTC) scheme for electric vehicles (EVs) or hybrid EVs. The control method is based on DTC operating principles. The stator voltage vector reference is computed from the stator flux and torque errors imposed by the flux and torque controllers. This voltage reference is then generated using a hybrid casca...

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...