This paper deals single phase 27-level multilevel inverter topology for DER’s-based DC/AC conversion system. This work mainly focuses on cascaded MLI using three unequal dc sources in order to produce twenty seven-level output. In this study, a high step-up converter is introduced as a front-end stage to improve the conversion efficiency of conventional boost converters and to stabilize the out...

A new optimization method is proposed in this paper for finding the firing angles in multi-level voltage source inverters to eliminate low-order selective harmonics and reduce total harmonic distortion (THD) value of the output voltage. For thid end, Fourier series is used for calculating objective function and selecting specific harmonics. Regarding the nature and complexity of the employed no...

The multilevel voltage source converters typically synthesize the staircase voltage wave from several levels of dc voltage sources. This paper presents a PWM modulation and hybrid modulation using cascaded topology which allows one to achieve high-quality output voltages and input currents and also outstanding availability due to their intrinsic component redundancy. The simulation results reve...