This paper presents the comparison of Unipolar Inverted Sine Carrier Pulse Width Modulation (UISCPWM) techniques for the Cascaded Multi Level Inverter (CMLI). Due to switch combination redundancies, there are certain degrees of freedom to generate the multilevel AC output voltage. This paper presents the use of Control Freedom Degree (CFD) combination. The effectiveness of the pulse width modul...

AbstractThis paper presents an investigation of five-Level Cascaded H – bridge (CHB) Inverter as Distribution Static Compensator (DSTATCOM) in Power System (PS) for compensation of reactive power and harmonics. The advantages of CHB inverter are low harmonic distortion, reduced number of switches and suppression of switching losses. The DSTATCOM helps to improve the power factor and eliminate t...

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...

In thispaper comparative performance analysis of MOSFET based& IGBT based single phase inverter has been evaluted. The paper compares overall THD of output voltage of thesetwoproposedinverters. Heresinusiodal PWM scheme has been usedwhich compares a sinusoidalreference voltage with a carrier basedmodulating signal to generategating pulse for inverter circuit. Power quality of inverter output vo...

6.1 INTRODUCTION The previous chapters have discussed the development of the MPPT algorithm and the control of the DC-DC converter in a standalone PV system. A grid-connected PV system is composed of a photovoltaic array, DC-DC converter, DC link capacitor, single phase DC-AC inverter, filter inductor, power grid, and non-linear load. The grid interconnection of a PV power generation system has...

This paper shows the Matlab/Simulink implementation of the current control in a single phase full-bridge power inverter. In order to increase the performances of the power inverter an LC filter is connected at the input. Mathematical modelling of the power inverter is based on the switching functions. Unipolar asymmetric PWM modulation method, and hysteresis current control will be analyzed for...

Renewable energy sources, especially solar photovoltaic systems (PV) are gaining popularity as the demand for electrical energy is increasing day by day. They can act as a voltage source feeding the power circuit. This work aims in utilising the PV system as a voltage source for a cascaded five level inverter. Further the performance of the PV panel fed cascaded multilevel inverter is analysed ...

Abstract— This paper presents the simulation of three phase five-level modular multilevel cascade inverter based on double-star chopper-cell (DSCC). The multicarrier PWM techniques such as Phase disposition PWM (PDPWM), Phase opposition disposition PWM (PODPWM), Alternate phase opposition disposition PWM (APODPWM), and Phase shift PWM (PSPWM) is employed and a comparative study is done based on...

This paper presents different types of bipolar Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) strategies for the chosen Cascaded MultiLevel Inverter (CMLI). The main purpose of MLI is to use power semiconductor devices of lower voltage ratings to realize high voltage levels at inverter output. Due to their ability to obtain refined output voltage waveforms, reduced Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) and reduced EMI...

This Paper introduces new hybrid converter topologies which can supply simultaneously AC as well as DC from a single DC source. The new Hybrid Converter is derived from the single switch controlled Boost converter by replacing the controlled switch with voltage source inverter (VSI). This new hybrid converter has the advantages like reduced number of switches as compared with conventional desig...