Multilevel inverters supplied from equal and constant dc sources almost don’t exist in practical applications. The variation of the dc sources affects the values of the switching angles required for each specific harmonic profile, as well as increases the difficulty of the harmonic elimination’s equations. This paper presents an extremely fast optimal solution of harmonic elimination of multile...

This paper presents a comprehensive review on three basic types of multilevel inverters i.e., diode-clamped, flying-capacitor, and cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter and their variation for photovoltaic power system. The electrical power generated form photovoltaic power system is in DC form. Hence, it is necessary to be controlled and converted to useful form. Inverter is a power electronic...

Multilevel inverter technology has emerged recently as a very important alternative in the area of high-power mediumvoltage energy control. This paper presents the most important topologies like diode-clamped inverter (neutral-point clamped), capacitor-clamped (flying capacitor), and cascaded multicell with separate dc sources. Emerging topologies like asymmetric hybrid cells and soft-switched ...

This paper proposes a hybrid carrier based space vector modulation suitable for multiphase multilevel inverters. Multiphase multilevel inverters are controlled by this hybrid modulation to provide multiphase variable voltage and variable frequency supply. The proposed modulation inherits the features of fundamental frequency modulation and carrier based space vector modulation strategies. The m...

Wind Energy is one of the favorable renewable energy resources and the multilevel inverter has been proven to be one of the important enabling technologies in wind energy conversion system (WECS) utilization. Wind energy conversion system with utilization grid systems are getting more and more widespread with the increase in the energy demand and the concern for the environmental pollution arou...

The poor quality of voltage and current of a conventional inverter fed induction machine is due to the presence of harmonics and hence there is significant level of energy losses. The nine level inverter is used to reduce the harmonics. The inverters with a large number of steps can generate high quality voltage waveforms. The concept of multilevel inverters, introduced about 20 years ago entai...

Among multilevel inverter topologies, asymmetric Cascaded H-Bridge (CHB) inverters have higher output-voltage levels than symmetrical ones. However, asymmetric multilevel inverters need pre-stage isolated and floating DC power sources, which make the system complicated and bulky. This paper is focused on solving the problem by using a single-core (magnetically-coupled) multiple-output forward-f...

Cascaded multilevel inverters offer several advantages over other multilevel structures: modularity, high voltage capability, reliability. Additionally, a large number of cascaded inverters using a square wave modulation method allow low losses in the inverter and low harmonic distortion in the output voltage. This paper analyzes the main features of one of these modulation methods especially i...

In this paper, a seven level modified cascaded multilevel inverter is proposed for industrial drive applications. Apart from selecting the conventional level inverters, Multi level inverters has been chosen for the industrial drive applications as it reduces the total harmonic distortion. The involvement of higher number of switches increases the complexity of the system, which leads to losses ...

in this paper, two new cascaded inverters are proposed, by using the series connection of new submultilevel inverters. each of the proposed submultilevel inverters consists of three batteries and eight power switches. four algorithms are presented to determine the voltages of these batteries for each of the proposed structures. in this study the comparison between the proposed structures with c...