This paper proposes asymmetric cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter with reduced number of switches suitable for industrial applications and renewable energy too. Cascade Multilevel Inverters are very popular and have many applications in electric utility and for industrial drives. When these inverters are used for industrial drive directly, the THD contents in output voltage of inverters are ...

In recent research works, metaheuristic methods have been widely used to minimize THD in inverters, these provide better computation time and effective results compared classical methods. This paper presents a systematic analysis with comprehensive coverage of applied multilevel inverters. The search focused on the characteristics inverters articles (topologies, levels, loads evolutionary metho...

In this paper, two new cascaded inverters are proposed, by using the series connection of new Submultilevel inverters. Each of the proposed Submultilevel inverters consists of three batteries and eight power switches. Four algorithms are presented to determine the voltages of these batteries for each of the proposed structures. In this study the comparison between the proposed structures with c...

This paper proposes a single-phase seven-level inverter for grid-connected photovoltaic systems, with a novel pulse width-modulated (PWM) control scheme. Three reference signals that are identical to each other with an offset that is equivalent to the amplitude of the triangular carrier signal were used to generate the PWM signals. The inverter is capable of producing seven levels of output-vol...

Multilevel inverters have been widely used for highpower, high-voltage applications. Among the existing multilevel inverter topologies Cascaded inverter topology has many advantages over Neutral point clamped and Flying capacitor inverters, but it requires isolated DC sources which is a main drawback of this topology. A new topology with a reversingvoltage component requires fewer numbers of co...

Multilevel inverters are suited for high power drive applications due to their increased voltage capability. Specifically, as compared to three level inverters, for a given dc bus voltage, a four-level inverter is able to synthesize better waveforms with reduced device ratings. In a medium voltage drive, a conventional diode bridge rectifier is a low cost multilevel solution if the dc bus volta...

Multilevel inverters with space vector pulse width modulation strategy are gained importance in high power high performance industrial drive applications.This paper presents a simplified space vector PWM method for a two-level and three level inverter The threelevel inverter has a large number of switching states as compared to two level inverter. In the proposed scheme, three-level space vecto...

Multilevel Inverters have emerged in power conversion systems due to their lower output harmonics and high power capability. This paper presents the performance analysis of a new seven level symmetrical multilevel inverter with reduced number of switches using Carrier Overlapping PWM strategies. Due to switch combination redundancies, there are certain degrees of freedom to generate multilevel ...

In this paper, a modular three-phase multilevel inverter specially suited for electrical drive applications is proposed. Unlike the cascaded H-bridge inverter, this topology is based on power cells connected in cascade using two inverter legs in series. A detailed analysis of the structure and the development of design equations for the load voltage with n levels are carried out using pulsewidt...

The multilevel inverter power structure plays a vital role in the power industry. It is easier to produce a high-power, high-voltage inverter with the multilevel structure. The topologies of multilevel inverter have several advantages such as lower total harmonic distortion (THD), lower electromagnetic interference (EMI) generation, reduction of voltage ratings of the power semiconductor switch...