This paper deals with the Direct Torque Control (DTC) of Brushless DC (BLDC) motor drives fed by four-switch inverters (also known as B4inverters) rather than six-switch inverters (also known as B6 inverters) in conventional drives. The principle of operation of the BLDC motor is firstly recalled considering both cases of B6and B4-inverters in the armature, with emphasis on the twoand three-pha...

Voltage source inverter (VSI) fed induction motors are widely used in variable speed applications. The harmonic distortion in the line currents of the inverter depends on the switching frequency and the pulse width modulation (PWM) technique employed to switch the inverter. The inverter switching loss is also strongly influenced by the PWM technique used. This paper compares the harmonic distor...

This paper proposes a new two-stage inverter based on transformer-less high gain DC-DC converter for energy conversion of a photovoltaic system. The designed system consists of a high gain DC-DC converter cascaded with a three-phase inverter. The proposed DC-DC converter has a simple structure, and it has one switch in its structure. The output voltage of the DC-DC converter supplies DC source ...

In the last decades, the applications of power inverter increased rapidly. As a result, in spite of rectifier, an inverter with a high-power electronic oscillator has capability to convert direct current (DC) into alternating current (AC) in different forms. In this paper, a new fuzzy logic control (FLC) is suggested to an improved modeling inverter of a single-phase voltage source using LC fil...

A fault tolerant structure and its corresponding control strategy for electromagnetic stirring power supplies are proposed in this paper. The topology structure of the electromagnetic stirring power supply contains two-stages. The fore-stage is the PWM rectifier. The back-stage is the fault tolerant inverter, which is a two-phase three-bridge orthogonal inverter circuit while operating normally...

Photovoltaic systems integrated to the grid have received considerable attention around the world. They can be connected to the electrical grid via galvanic isolation (transformer) or without it (transformerless). Despite making galvanic isolation, low frequency transformer increases size, cost and losses. On the other hand, transformerless PV systems increase the leakage current (common-mode c...

Multilevel inverters in renewable applications usually require a high-voltage dc link fed by front-end dc--dc boost stage. Such two-stage power conversion, however, increases the switch count, leading to higher costs and losses. To lower number of switches, this letter proposes six-switch inverter, capable generating seven-level voltage triple-voltage boost. Both features are achieved with only...

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...

 The advent of the transformerless multilevel inverter topology has brought forth various pulse width modulation (PWM) schemes as a means to control the switching of the active devices in each of the multiple voltage levels in the inverter. An analysis of how existing multilevel carrier-based PWM affects switch utilization for the different levels of a diode-clamped inverter is conducted. Two ...