A serious constraint in multilevel inverters is the capacitor voltage-balancing problem. The unbalance of the different DC voltage sources of the five-level Neutral Point Clamping Voltage Source Inverter (NPC-VSI) constituted the major limitation for the use of this power converter. To remedy to this problem, a new control solution to compensate the unbalanced DC voltages for the five-level NPC...

ABSTRACT: In any PV based system, the inverter is a critical component responsible for the control of electricity flow between the dc source, and loads or grid. This paper presents a solar PV generation system integrated to the grid. The results of matlab modeling of the system detail the comparative operation of inverter topologies which are the conventional two level inverters and multilevel ...

In this paper, a new configuration for symmetrical and asymmetrical multilevel inverters is proposed. In asymmetric mode, different algorithms are suggested in order to determine the magnitudes of DC voltage sources. The merit of this topology to the conventional symmetric and asymmetric inverters is verified by the provided comparisons. This topology uses a lower number of power electronic dev...

1,2Student, Department of Electrical Engineering, NIT Durgapur, West Bengal, India 3Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, NIT Durgapur, West Bengal, India ---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------AbstractThis paper presents the design of photovoltaic module, where the panel is construct...

A combination of series, parallel and multilevel power electronics has been investigated as a potential interface for two different types of renewable energy sources and in order to reach higher power levels. Renewable energy sources are typically dispersed in a territory, and sources, like wind and solar, allow small to medium-scale generation of electricity. The configuration investigated in ...

The DC/AC inverters are used in grid-coupled Photovoltaic (PV) energy fabrication systems as the power meting out interface between the PV power source and the electric grid. Compared to the grid-coupled PV inverters that have galvanic separation (either on the DC, or on the AC side),the transformer-less PV inverters have the advantages of lower cost, higher efficiency, smaller size and lower w...

In this paper, a single-phase Seven-Level and Five-Level cascaded H-Bridge Inverter (CHB) based Distribution Static Compensator (DSTATCOM) is presented. A simple control algorithm based on inverse park PLL was proposed for both five-level and seven-level inverters. Synchronous Reference Frame theory (SRF) as control algorithm is used for reference source current extraction and to generate gatin...

In this article, the UXE-Type inverter is considered for eleven-level operation. This topology exhibits a boosting capability along with reduced switches and one source. An algorithm that utilizes redundant states to control voltage-balance of auxiliary direct current (DC)-link presented. The proposed capable maintaining voltages each capacitor at Vdc/4 resulting in successful multilevel operat...