 When utilized at low amplitude modulation indices, existing multilevel carrier-based PWM strategies have no special provisions for this operating region, and several levels of the inverter go unused. This paper proposes some novel multilevel PWM strategies to take advantage of the multiple levels in both a diode-clamped inverter and a cascaded Hbridges inverter by utilizing all of the levels ...

In this paper, dynamic performance of a transformerless cascaded PWM static synchronous shunt compensator (STATCOM) based on a novel control scheme is investigated for bus voltage regulation in a 6.6kV distribution system. The transformerless STATCOM consists of a thirteen-level cascaded H-bridge inverter, in which each voltage source H-bridge inverter should be equipped with a floating and iso...

The emergence of multilevel converters has been in increase since the last decade. These new types of converters are suitable for high voltage and high power application due to their ability to synthesize waveforms with better harmonic spectrum. Numerous topologies have been introduced and widely studied for utility and drive applications. Amongst these topologies, the multilevel cascaded inver...

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...

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...

This paper presents the comparative study of three phase twenty five level diode clamped and cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverters. The comparison is made in respect of requirement of devices, quality of output voltage and reduction of total harmonic distortion at the multilevel inverter terminals. In this work multicarrier sinusoidal pulse modulation control methods of Phase disposition (PD-P...

Multilevel inverters have been widely used for highpower, high-voltage applications. Among the existing multilevel inverter topologies Cascaded inverter topology has many advantages over Neutral point clamped and Flying capacitor inverters, but it requires isolated DC sources which is a main drawback of this topology. A new topology with a reversingvoltage component requires fewer numbers of co...

Multilevel inverter is an effective and practical solution for increasing power demand and reducing harmonics of AC waveforms. Such inverters synthesize a desired output voltage from several levels of dc voltages as inputs. This paper analyzes the performance of cascaded five level inverter using hybrid pulse width modulation technique. It has been found that this technique reduces the switchin...

A power electronic converters are becoming more and more popular for medium voltage & high power applications. To overcome the limitation of semiconductors current and voltage ratings in high power applications, multilevel inverter is often considered an effective solution. In addition, stepped waveform in the output of multilevel inverter has better harmonic spectrum than 2-level inverter in l...

The MATLAB based simulation on simulink platform is presented for Single Phase Cascaded symmetric Multilevel Inverter for 5 levels. Theoretical study is done for the classification of multilevel inverter. And also the study is done for the classification of modulation scheme for multilevel inverter. Modulation scheme used for single phase symmetric multilevel inverter is fixed frequency multica...