This paper proposed a new topology of symmetric single-phase multilevel inverter with the smaller number semiconductor switches and optimized low-frequency control methods to optimize Total Harmonic Distortion. A nine-level single phase output is obtained by eight active switches, four diodes capacitors from two asymmetrical dc sources. The selected harmonic order in voltage eliminated PWM (SHE...

This paper combines quasi-Z-source into a typical five-level inverter, which includes two dc voltage sources, two quasi-Z-sources and five switching devices. In this structure, the output voltage amplitude is not limited to dc voltage source and it can be increased by quasi-Z-source. Besides, due to nature of Z-source families, this new structure is reliable and higher efficiency. Also, in this...

The implementation and analysis strategies plays vital role to minimize THD in Multilevel inverter. The modulation technique regards Selective harmonic Elimination and Space Vector Pulse Width Modulation(SVPWM).Multilevel inverters has tremendous application in the area of high-power and mediumvoltage energy control. In this paper simulation of SVPWM is performed for cascaded H bridge Multileve...

To reduce the high-order harmonics produced by the high-power pulse width modulated (PWM) converters, selective harmonic elimination (SHE) scheme is commonly used due to its superior harmonic performance at low switching frequency. This Project proposes an active compensation method through the PWM control of SHE phase angle. An application example on a high-power PWM current-source rectifier (...

The paper deals with a harmonic detection algorithm for hybrid power filters called DQ axis with Fourier (DQF) algorithm. This algorithm is a combination of the advantages of DQ axis method and sliding window Fourier analysis (SWFA). It is flexible and suitable in terms of design for hybrid power filters. This paper also presents the harmonic elimination by using the DQF algorithm for both thre...

The Selective Harmonic Elimination (SHE) technique is the fundamental switching frequency scheme which is used to eliminate specific order harmonics. In this paper, the elimination of low order harmonics in cascaded multilevel inverter with equal DC sources is proposed. The modulation strategy used here is SHEPWM in which non linear equations that characterize the low order harmonics are obtain...

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...

Selective harmonic elimination–pulsewidth modulation (SHE–PWM) is a technique widely used to improve the efficiency and content in medium-voltage high-power converters. Among these converters, three-level neutral-point-clamped (3L-NPC) converter one of most utilized topologies. However, 3L-NPC requires proper balancing dc-link capacitor voltages. This article presents control technique, based o...