Multilevel inverters have been widely applied industries. A family of optimal puisewidth modulation (PWM) methods for multilevel inverters, such as step modulation, can generate output voltage with less harmonic distortion than popular modulation strategies, such as the carrier-based sinusoidal PWM or the space vector PWM. However, some drawbacks limit the application of optimal PWM. One of suc...

In this paper, an operation methodology of a STATCOM (Static Synchronous Compensator) is proposed for reduction in Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) in power systems. For achieving this objective a comparison is made between two different configurations of Statcom.One is made up of two sets of three-level 12-pulse converter considering magnetic saturation and other is made up of two sets of three...

This study concerns the transformation of maritime pine (Pinus pinaster) sawdust waste into potentially novel products through isolation of volatile compounds in the form of valuable oil. Different techniques, namely, turbohydrodistillation (THD), solvent-free microwave extraction (SFME), microwave hydrodiffusion and gravity (MHG), and ultrasound-assisted extraction (UAE) were tested. These dif...

In order to reduce the total harmonic distortion (THD) of a bandpass-based oscillator, instead of using a conventional hard limiter, a multilevel hard limiter (MHL) is proposed which inherently removes the third and the fifth-order harmonics from the frequency spectrum of its output signal. The input–output characteristic of the proposed MHL contains slope values of only zero and infinity, maki...

This paper presents a topology with a reduced number of switches, which is used to reduce the total harmonic distortion (THD%) using MCPWM technique, MCPWM with trapezoidal reference wave and also SHE technique such as PSO technique and Newton-Raphson (NR) technique. SHE technique is used to eliminate a particular harmonic in a multilevel inverter (MLI);the MCPWM and Trapezoidal reference wave ...

This paper presents the comparative study of various Multicarrier Pulse Width Modulation techniques with Sinusoidal reference for single phase seven level cascaded Z-source inverter designed with three intermediate Z-source networks connected between the input source inverter circuit. The cascaded Z-source based MLI technique enhances the fundamental output voltage and reduces the Total Harmoni...

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 ...

A physico-chemical research of bis-(dipivaloylmethanato)barium(II) (Ba(thd)2) has been carricd out from the point of its use in CVD processes as a precursor (thermal stability, immunity to external effects and etc.). The optimal conditions for synthesis, purification and storage have been found. It has bee11 shown. that the sublimated product presents a mixture of several modifications with the...

This paper presents an algorithm for estimating the Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) in the electrical power grid nodes, which is based on a load flow analysis by frequency component. The aim of this algorithm is, on the one hand, to model the linear and non-linear loads which would be part of an electrical network and, on the other hand, to estimate the THD which would appear in the network nod...

The relationship between space vector modulation and regular-sampled PWM techniques for hard-switching PWM inverters and rectifiers are reexamined in this paper. Space vector modulation with optimized apportioning of null vector time that results in minimum current THD is investigated and is compared with previously known methods. The conventional optimal regular-sampled PWM method and its rela...