This paper presents a new method to find the optimum switching angles in voltage source multilevel converters in order to minimize specific higher order harmonics and decrease the total harmonic distortion (THD) of their output voltage waveform. The output voltage waveform of inverter can either be in the form of staircase or PWM. In order to increase the degrees of freedom and elimination of m...

Selective Harmonics Elimination is a high-efficiency modulation method for multilevel inverters that allows handling very high voltage applications. It eliminates the most significant harmonics and fixes desired fundamental component. The main issue of these techniques complex process to obtain appropriate switching-angles, being necessary calculate them offline, meaning if some disturbances oc...

selective harmonic elimination (she) is a powerful modulation scheme aims to find the required switching angles in order to eliminate the number of undesired harmonics. she is a complicated problem which consists of several nonlinear equations which have multiple local minima. in order to eliminate the higher number of undesired harmonics and as a result reducing the total harmonic distortion (...

The Problems due to Harmonics and reactive power loses has been pertaining from the decades. Since many methods are proposed to reduce those above mentioned problems. one of the best method is employing Active Filters for the elimination of Harmonics and compensation of reactive power problems. This paper mainly explains about the new AF technology and different topologies utilizing in the pres...

Multilevel inverter have been attracting increasing interest recently due to the increased power rating, improving harmonic performance, and reduced electromagnetic inference (EMI) emission. In this project, a genetic algorithm (GA) optimization technique is applied to 7-level cascaded multilevel inverter which determines optimum switching angles to eliminate 5 and 7th order harmonics. Genetic ...

The Selective Harmonic Elimination (SHE) technique is the fundamental switching frequency scheme which is used to eliminate specific order harmonics. In this paper, the elimination of low order harmonics in cascaded multilevel inverter with equal DC sources is proposed. The modulation strategy used here is SHEPWM in which non linear equations that characterize the low order harmonics are obtain...

Elimination of harmonics in a multilevel inverter with two unequal dc sources is considered. That is, for a given fundamental output voltage, our aim is to find the switching angles, that produce the fundamental while not generating specifically chosen harmonics. A procedure is given to find all sets of switching angles for which the fundamental is produced while lower order harmonics are elimi...

Selective Harmonic Elimination Pulse Width Modulation (SHEPWM) technique is one of the control techniques for inverters. It is mainly used for reducing the harmonic content in single phase and three phase inverters and to improve the power quality. The selection of switching angles for eliminating particular harmonic is difficult. The proposed method uses one of the soft computing techniques Ge...

Selective Harmonic Elimination Pulse Width Modulation (SHEPWM) technique is one of the control techniques for inverters. It is mainly used for reducing the harmonic content in single phase and three phase inverters and to improve the power quality. The selection of switching angles for eliminating particular harmonic is difficult. The proposed method uses one of the soft computing techniques Ge...