Received Jul 8, 2014 Revised Oct 6, 2014 Accepted Oct 20, 2014 Renewable power generation using photovoltaic is very interesting to be developed to deal with the problems of conventional energy sources and environmental issues. The photovoltaic power generation can operate both in stand-alone and grid-connected operations. This paper presents an application of the single-phase five-level common...

This communication presents the evidence of a degradation effect causing important reductions in the delay of a CMOS inverter when consecutive input transition are close in time. Complete understanding of the effect is demonstrated, providing a quantifying model. Fully characterization as a function of design variables and external conditions is carried out, making the model suitable for using ...

This paper presents optimal design of three-phase multilevel inverter for distributed power generation system using low frequency modulation and sinusoidal pulse width modulation as well. It is a modular type and it can be extended for extra number of output voltage levels by adding additional modular stages. The impact of the proposed topology is its proficiency to maximize the number of volta...

Three-level gird-connected converter is used more and more widely in renewable energy generation system. At the same time LCL filter is also widely utilized in order to achieve lower current harmonic. However, current research about LCL filter is mostly aimed at two-level inverter. The study involving multilevel inverter is much less. When using space vector pulse width modulation, Current tran...

In this paper, several optimum structures of a cascaded multilevel inverter is proposed. This optimization is based on generation a constant number of output voltage levels by using minimum number of power switches or dc voltage sources or minimum amount of blocked voltage by power switches. In addition, the optimum structure for a constant number of dc voltage sources by using minimum number o...

Power electronic converters, especially DC/AC Sinusoidal Pulse Width Modulation inverters have been extending their range of use in industry because of their numerous advantages. They typically synthesize the stair –case voltage waveform (from several dc sources) which has reduced harmonic content. This paper describes the development of design, modelling and simulation of the proposed seven le...

This paper discusses a single-phase three-level current source inverter (CSI) driven by a single gate-drive power supply in both chopper and inverter, and its feasibility on grid connected photovoltaic system application. Using this new topology, the complexity of the chopper and inverter circuitry is dramatically reduced by using single gate-drive power supply for all power switches. The circu...

This paper focused on the development of capacitor voltage balancing methods in a flying capacitor multilevel inverter (FCMLI) fed induction motor drive. For improving the performance of flying capacitor multilevel inverter, a switching pattern selection scheme is implemented. The proposed method has been designed a seven-level flying capacitor multilevel inverter by using sinusoidal pulse widt...

This paper presents a single-phase multistring Multi-level photovoltaic (PV) inverter topology for gridconnected PV systems with a novel hybrid Hbridge inverter. The proposed novel cascaded Hybrid H-bridge produces higher voltage levels with less number of devices. This will reduce the number of gate drivers and protection circuits requirement, this inurn reduces the cost increase the reliabili...

Due to the low voltage of PV module and enable AC technology, where every has its own DC-AC converter, this paper introduces a new high step-up seven-level two-stage multilevel inverter for grid-connected Photovoltaic (PV) system. The introduced schematic consists two stages. first stage is switched capacitor boost converter second seven-switches inverter. designed extract maximum power input v...