Due to their ability to synthesize waveforms with better harmonic spectrum and attain higher voltages, multi-level inverters are receiving increasing attention in the past few years. The multilevel inverter was introduced as a solution to increase the converter operating voltage above the voltage limits of classical semiconductors. In this paper, a Diode Clamped Multilevel Inverter is controlle...

Integration of fuel cell stack with an inverter is complex in nature. A number of factors have to be taken into account in designing the inverter as well as during the integration. One of these factors is ripple current which could affect the life of the fuel cell stack if there is fuel and/or oxidant starvation. In this paper an inverter topology is investigated which significantly reduces or ...

In this paper, a Quasi-Z-Source Photovoltaic (PV) Inverter is proposed. The proposed inverter gives the solution for most of the problems associated with currently available PV inverters. In this inverter, the power conversion takes place in a single-stage itself thereby fulfilling the requirements such as, inverting dc voltage to proper ac, stepping up the input voltage, maximum power point tr...

Power electronic inverters are widely used in various industrial drive applications. To overcome the problems of the limited voltage and current ratings of power semiconductors devices, some kinds of series and/or parallel connections are necessary. Recently, the multilevel inverters have received more attention in literature due to their ability to synthesize waveforms with a better harmonic s...

This paper proposes a new topology of quasiZ-source inverter(qZSI) which is used as step-up isolated dc/dc converter for residential fuel cell (FC) power systems .The proposed topology used is cascaded quasi Z source inverter and implemented using induction motor. The cascaded qZSI is derived by the adding of one diode, one inductor and two capacitors to the traditional qZSI. The proposed two-s...

The role of multilevel inverters in improving power quality has been already proved long back ago. The major concern in using multi level inverters is the number of switches used in it. As the level of inverter increases. So there is a need to reduce the component count in multilevel inverter. In this paper we use a statcom which is consists of a multilevel inverter with reduced switch count. T...

This paper presents a multi-input single-phase grid-connected inverter for a hybrid photovoltaic (PV)/wind power system, integrated with basic and advanced functions developed by the authors. To achieve high quality current and fast dynamic response to inherent variations of hybrid renewable energy sources, an improved space vector pulse-width-modulation (PWM) based predictive current control a...

The Multilevel Inverter topology is advantageous in high-power and power-quality demanding application without use of transformer with reduced harmonic distortion. This paper explain the basic type of Multilevel Inverter such as diode clamped multilevel inverter (neutral point clamped), flywheel capacitor multilevel inverter (capacitor clamped), cascade multilevel inverter also the modulation a...