This paper presents a cascaded H-bridge multilevel boost inverter for electric vehicle (EV) and hybrid EV (HEV) applications implemented without the use of inductors. Currently available power inverter systems for HEVs use a dc–dc boost converter to boost the battery voltage for a traditional three-phase inverter. The present HEV traction drive inverters have low power density, are expensive, a...

Multilevel converters offer advantages in terms of the output waveform quality due to the increased number of levels used in the output voltage modulation. This advantage is particularly true for cascade H-bridge (CHB) converters that can be built to produce a large number of levels owing to their modular structure. When increase the number of levels it requires more number of switches, it impl...

Abstract Under the traditional hybrid modulation strategy, output powers of cascaded H-bridge inverter are not balanced between units. With a 13-level with DC side voltage ratio 1:1:1:3 (referred to as III-inverter in paper) research object, power equalization strategy based on carrier rotation is proposed. control which, inverters formed by superposition multiple basic waveforms. Firstly, adop...

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

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...

Abstract Cascaded H-Bridge multilevel inverterhas become more attractive to generate high power in an electrical distribution system. This paper discusses the control of five level cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter with super capacitor as a Dc energy storage. The control of the multilevel inverter using PI and space vector pulse width modulation (SVPWM) controllers based on the modelling an...

In this paper, a new cascaded multilevel inverter by capability of increasing the number of output voltage levels with reduced number of power switches is proposed. The proposed topology consists of series connection of a number of proposed basic multilevel units. In order to generate all voltage levels at the output, five different algorithms are proposed to determine the magnitude of DC volta...

Higher power levels can be obtained from utilizing lower voltage levels which was the theory proposed over thirty years ago. Conversion of DC to AC having desired output voltage and frequency can be obtained from two types of inverters which are single level and multilevel inverter (MLI). Amongst all MLI topologies, Cascaded H-Bridge type is taken into consideration for this paper. Advantages o...

This paper proposes three phase Seven Level Cascaded H-Bridge Multilevel Inverter by using PD, POD, APOD, INVERTED SINEWAVE methods based on Sinusoidal PWM control techniques. There are 3 types of multilevel inverters named as diode clamped multilevel inverter, flying capacitor multilevel inverter and cascaded multilevel inverter. Compared to diode clamped & flying capacitor type multilevel inv...

This paper presents the implementation of Single Phase 7 level Multilevel DC link (MLDCL) Inverter with Half Bridge Cell topology. For N level inverter, (N-1)/2 half bridge cells are required with the same number of voltage sources. In this inverter topology, 3 Half Bridge Cells are used along with 3 voltage sources, each have 100V DC. These half bridges are connected in series to form a Multil...