I am submitting herewith a dissertation written by Haiwen Liu entitled “Design and Application of Hybrid Multilevel Inverter for Voltage Boost.” I have examined the final electronic copy of this dissertation for form and content and recommend that it be accepted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, with a major in Electrical Engineering. Leon M. Tol...

Abstract-This paper presents a nonlinear control algorithm for a single-stage three-phase buck-boost inverter. In contrast to the linear control law that is formulated according to small signal model that is linearized around an operating point, the exact linearization that is directly based on the large signal model allows for the formulation of the control law over a wide operating range. Mor...

in this paper optimal torque control (otc) of stand-alone variable-speed small-scale wind turbine equipped with a permanent magnet synchronous generator and a switch- mode rectifier is presented. it is shown that with otc method in standalone configuration, power coefficient could be reached to its maximum possible value, i.e. 0.48. an appropriate control algorithm based on turbine characterist...

The Transformer based Z-Source inverter is an enhanced series inductance Z-Source impedance network. This proposed inverter is used to combine the main circuit and the power source. This configuration delivers a strong boost capacity to overcome the barriers of the series inductance Z-source inverter. Further, with the usage of low voltage capacitors and the transformer, the capacitor voltage s...

An impedance-source (or impedance-fed) power converter (abbreviated as Z-source) and its control method for implementing dc-to-ac, ac-to-dc, ac-to-ac, and dc-to-dc power conversion are presented in this paper. This impedance converter employs a unique impedance network (or circuit) to couple the converter main circuit to the power source, hence provides a unique feature that cannot be obtained ...

This paper presents the development of a DC-DC boost converter. In the proposed boost converter design, a passive regenerative snubber circuit is included to absorb the energy of stray inductance so as to reduce the IGBT switching losses. MATLAB simulation as well as an experiment results are conducted to validate the proposed device. The results show that the proposed boost converter design gi...

An enhanced soft switching technique for an interleaved boost converter has better performance characteristics when compared to conventional boost converter. As IBC operates under soft switching the main devices do not have any additional voltage & current stress on the auxiliary devices are at low level. Where main switches operates out of phase and share the output current while providing sof...