─ the paper describes the operational principle of flying capacitor and modular multilevel inverters. The detailed discussions of dc link capacitors voltage balancing methods for both inverters are given in order to enable fair comparison. The causes of dc link capacitors voltage imbalance in flying capacitor multilevel inverter with more than three levels are highlighted. Computer simulation i...

Multilevel inverter have been attracting increasing interest recently due to the increased power rating, improving harmonic performance, and reduced electromagnetic inference (EMI) emission. A voltage source inverter is commonly used to supply a variable frequency variable voltage to a three phase induction motor in a variable speed application. The output voltage contains harmonics the differe...

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...

The voltage and current THD values of the symmetric inverter operated by fundamental switching frequency are closer to the IEEE 519 standard. Some additional filter circuit is required to minimize the THD values within the specified limits. However symmetric multilevel inverter requires more number of components and driver circuits. Asymmetric multilevel inverter is proposed in this chapter to ...

Multilevel inverters are a source of high power, often used in medium-voltage application. Multilevel converters have received increased interest recently due to high quality output waveform and decrease the harmonic distortion in the output waveform without decreasing the inverter power output. A multilevel inverter uses a series of semiconductor power converters, thus generating higher voltag...

Photovoltaic energy conversion becomes main focus of many researches due to its promising potential as source for future electricity and has many advantages than the other alternative energy sources like wind, solar, ocean, biomass, geothermal etc. In Photovoltaic power generation system multi level inverters can be used as an alternative configuration for the dc to ac inverter. Diode clamped i...

Voltage Sag is one of the Power Quality problem and it become severe to industrial customers. Voltage sag causes miss operation to several sensitive equipments. This problem can be mitigating with the Dynamic Voltage Restorer. DVR is a solid state device which is connected in series between the source and load voltages. In this Dynamic Voltage Restorer is implemented using Capacitor Clamped Mul...

This paper presents a new control scheme for three levels NPC Inverter to boost up the input dc voltage and give three levels AC output voltage with less harmonic distortion in a single stage.Recently, Single stage high voltage pick up support inverter is getting ubiquity in applications like sun powered PV, energy component, UPS systems and so on. As of late, single stage voltage support multi...

This paper proposes a novel topology of multilevel current source inverter which is suitable to apply in low/medium voltage. The proposed topology is capable of producing desirable bidirectional output current levels. Furthermore, it can employ symmetrical DC current sources as well as asymmetrical ones which is a significant advantage. Asymmetrical mode makes it possible to generate a great nu...

A power electronic converters are becoming more and more popular for medium voltage & high power applications. To overcome the limitation of semiconductors current and voltage ratings in high power applications, multilevel inverter is often considered an effective solution. In addition, stepped waveform in the output of multilevel inverter has better harmonic spectrum than 2-level inverter in l...