Voltage source inverter (VSI) fed induction motors are widely used in variable speed applications. The harmonic distortion in the line currents of the inverter depends on the switching frequency and the pulse width modulation (PWM) technique employed to switch the inverter. The inverter switching loss is also strongly influenced by the PWM technique used. This paper compares the harmonic distor...

In modern traction propulsion applications, voltage source inverter (VSI) fed traction motors today operate very close to borderline conditions. With new emerging semiconductor technologies, higher inverter switching frequencies will be possible and high inverter dv/dt-rates appear, resulting in transient overvoltages at the machine which increase the stress on the insulation system and lead to...

In inverter design for electric vehicle applications there are several major requirements that should be met. The inverter should be able to operate bidirectionally with reasonably high efficiency under a high ambient temperature. Therefore it is critical to select the suitable main switches for the inverter. In this paper seven types of devices (including 3 dual IGBTs, 1 intelligent dual IGBT,...

This paper presents a grid-tied cascade H-bridge inverter with predictive current control technique. The proposed 15-level cascade inverter consists of three H-bridge inverters with separated DC sources. At the output of the cascade inverter an L filter is used as a grid filter. The cascade inverter is controlled by the mean of RT-Lab. The predictive current regulator and one-phase synchronous ...

The multi-level inverter system is mostly used in ac drives, when both reduced harmonic contents and high power are required. In this paper a new topology of multilevel inverter is introduced. This type has many steps with less power electronic switches. Due to the less number of switches the cost of the inverter is very less and also less installation area is required. Firstly, we describe bri...

This paper explores Switched Inductor (SL) Zsource inverter which adjusts the voltage and have application in Fuel cells (FCs) which have achieved global attention as an alternative power source for hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs). The proposed inverter uses inductor and capacitor circuit to join the source and load circuit. On comparing with the initial Z-source inverter, the explored circuit ...

Reformations in electricity sector along with various renewable energy promotion policies has increased the importance of small grid connected photovoltaic (PV) systems utilizing single-stage single-phase inverters. To improve the performance multilevel inverter are preferred over two levels. This paper proposes a single-stage five level inverter for grid connected (PV) system. The output curre...

scheme proposed here makes the individual inverter A space vector PWM technique is developed based switching frequency equal to half of the motor phase on the combination of space vectors from dual inverters switching frequency. %is results in low inverter switching feeding the induction motor from both ends (open-end with reduced power circuit complexity when compared to winding without neutra...

This paper presents a cascaded H-bridge multilevel boost inverter for electric vehicle (EV) and hybrid EV (HEV) applications implemented without the use of inductors. Currently available power inverter systems for HEVs use a dc–dc boost converter to boost the battery voltage for a traditional three-phase inverter. The present HEV traction drive inverters have low power density, are expensive, a...

A high efficiency and operating life of grid feeding solar photovoltaic (PV) inverters are demanded. Because of reduced dclink capacitor requirement, current source inverter (CSI) offers higher reliability than the voltage source based solar inverter. Nonetheless, conventional three-phase pulse width modulated (PWM) current source based solar inverter injects high earth leakage current into the...