scholarly journals The multilevel inverter with clamped-diode

Author(s):  
Trong-Thang Nguyen

<p>In this study, the author analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of multi-level inverter compared to the traditional two-level inverter and then chose the suitable inverter. Specifically, the author analyzes and designs the three-level inverter, including the power circuit design and control circuit design. All designs are verified through the numerical simulation on Matlab. The results show that even though the three-level inverter has a low number of switches (only 12 switches), but the quality is very good: the total harmonic distortion is small; the output voltage always follows the reference voltage.</p>

2022 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Madhu Andela ◽  
Ahmmadhussain Shaik ◽  
Saicharan Beemagoni ◽  
Vishal Kurimilla ◽  
Rajagopal Veramalla ◽  
...  

This paper deals with a reduced switch multi-level inverter for the solar photovoltaic system-based 127-level multi-level inverter. The proposed technique uses the minimum number of switches to achieve the maximum steps in staircase AC output voltage when compared to the flying capacitor multi-level inverter, cascaded type multilevel inverter and diode clamped multi-level inverter. The use of a minimum number of switches decreases the cost of the system. To eliminate the switching losses, in this topology a square wave switch is used instead of pulse width modulation. Thereby the total harmonic distortion (THD) and harmonics have been reduced in the pulsating AC output voltage waveform. The performance of 127-level MLI is compared with 15 level, 31-level and 63-level multilevel inverters. The outcomes of the solar photovoltaic system-based 127-level multi-level inverter have been simulated in a MATLAB R2009b environment.


Author(s):  
Asef A. Saleh ◽  
Rakan Khalil Antar ◽  
Harith Ahmed Al-Badrani

The advantage of multilevel inverters is to produce high output voltage values with distortion as minimum as possible. To reduce total harmonic distortion (THD) and get an output voltage with different step levels using less power electronics switching devices, 15-level inverter is designed in this paper. Single-phase 11-switches with zero-level (ZL) and none-zero-level (NZL) inverter based on modified absolute sinusoidal pulse width modulation (MASPWM) technique is designed, modelled and built by MATLAB/Simulink. Simulation results explained that, multilevel inverter with NZL gives distortion percent less than that with ZL voltage. The THD of the inverter output voltage and current of ZL are 4% and 1%, while with NZL is 3.6% and 0.84%, respectively. These results explain the effectiveness of the suggested power circuit and MASPWM controller to get the required voltage with low THD.


Author(s):  
Hatef Firouzkouhi

A new concept in control of cascaded H-Bridge multi-level inverters is proposed in this paper. According to this concept, switching angles are considered to be independent from the fundamental voltage. A polynomial term is presented to show the relation between switching angles and DC voltages. Based on this concept, Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) calculations are updated and proved to be independent from the fundamental voltage. Thus, once calculated for minimum THD, the switching pattern can be used for any required level of output voltage. To examine the effectiveness of the proposed method, it is applied in control of an eleven level inverter. The simulation results are demonstrated and verified through experiments with a setup controlled by Xilinx SPARTAN3 family FPGA (XC3S400-PQG208).


Author(s):  
Richa Gupta

With consideration of use of solar, wind and other renewable energy source for industrial applications like electric vehicle drive, train traction and FACTS integration, which demand voltage levels in the range of kilo volts with high power quality, to achieve this high voltage level and high quality of power, a cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter based topology capable of operating with low harmonic distortion is proposed in the paper. In order to attain low total harmonic distortion (THD), use of phase disposition-PWM technique is proposed in the paper. Giving due attention to both switch count and low THD, the output voltage levels of the multi-level inverter are set at 15 levels. Due to half wave symmetry the even order harmonics for proposed system become zero and the lower order harmonics reduces which is shown in tabular from. Due to reduced switch count and low THD the overall system become more efficient and effective. The effectiveness of the proposed control strategy has been verified using MATLAB simulations. Simulation is done for both symmetrical as well as asymmetrical multilevel inverter topology. It is observed that quality of the output voltage waveforms of the multi-level inverter (MLI) is as per the IEEE std 519 specifications. For symmetrical reduced switch fifteen level inverter the THD is 4.42% and for asymmetrical topology THD is 4.59% for the output voltage waveform.


In high and medium AC power applications, multilevel inverters (MLI) have significant importance in modern days. The architecture of multi-level cascaded type inverter is preferred because of reduced harmonic distortion, high quality AC output power, least switching loss and minimum switching stress. The existing method uses 8-number of switches to generate 11-level AC voltage. A new design of 15-level multilevel inverter with 6-switching devices is proposed in this paper and DC supply devices are similar to existing method, which outcomes in less switching loss, less complexity of circuit design and less cost. The DC supply for multilevel inverter is taken from solar panel with MPPT technique. The new 6-switch multilevel inverter circuit topology, switching pattern and gate pulse making is explained in this paper. The fast Fourier transform (FFT) analysis of the outputs of 11-level and 15-level of multilevel inverters are related. The new 6-switch 15 level cascaded type inverter circuit has been intended and modeled by using MATLAB software Simulink tool. The simulation outcomes are displayed with less total harmonic distortion and reduced switching loss has been achieved.


2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Adala Abdali ◽  
Ali Abdulabbas ◽  
Habeeb Nekad

The multilevel inverter is attracting the specialist in medium and high voltage applications, among its types, the cascade H bridge Multi-Level Inverter (MLI), commonly used for high power and high voltage applications. The main advantage of the conventional cascade (MLI) is generated a large number of output voltage levels but it demands a large number of components that produce complexity in the control circuit, and high cost. Along these lines, this paper presents a brief about the non-conventional cascade multilevel topologies that can produce a high number of output voltage levels with the least components. The non-conventional cascade (MLI) in this paper was built to reduce the number of switches, simplify the circuit configuration, uncomplicated control, and minimize the system cost. Besides, it reduces THD and increases efficiency. Two topologies of non-conventional cascade MLI three phase, the Nine level and Seventeen level are presented. The PWM technique is used to control the switches. The simulation results show a better performance for both topologies. THD, the power loss and the efficiency of the two topologies are calculated and drawn to the different values of the Modulation index (ma).


2015 ◽  
Vol 792 ◽  
pp. 529-535
Author(s):  
Stanislav V. Makarov ◽  
Alexander Vladimirovish Myatez ◽  
Vitali D. Suslyakov

The article presents the research aimed at improving the efficiency of the diesel engines running. The advantages and disadvantages of the existing systems of the starter starting systems of diesel locomotives are considered. Brainstorming ideas on the issue of the calculation and selection of the alternative circuitry power circuit pulse converter starting system of diesel engines are described in the paper. An example of calculating the regulating characteristics of the pulse converter and the efficiency of the proposed circuit design is reported.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 1059
Author(s):  
Mustafa Fawzi Mohammed ◽  
Ali Husain Ahmad ◽  
AbdulRahim Thiab Humod

The most concerns in the inverter's design are about, how to make the output voltage of the inverter sinusoidal at the desired fundamental frequency with low total harmonic distortion (THD). This paper presents a design and implementation of single-phase five-level inverter which is powered by single dc source and based on T-type multi-level inverters construction. The proposed inverter is built mainly by six IGBTs and two diodes. The used modulation technique is based on using two triangular carriers at 2000 Hz frequency and shifted by phase opposition disposition (POD) method. The carriers are made slightly unbalanced with their amplitudes. The over-modulation method is also introduced in the design to get the lowest possible THD effect without using filters. The inverter is simulated by MATLAB SIMULINK, implemented practically, and tested with the help of LabVIEW software.  


2019 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erol Can

A 9-level inverter with a boost converter has been controlled with a fuzzy logic controller and a PID controller for regulating output voltage applications on resistive (R) and inductive (L), capacitance (C). The mathematical model of this system is created according to the fuzzy logic controlling new high multilevel inverter with a boost converter. The DC-DC boost converter and the multi-level inverter are designed and explained, when creating a mathematical model after a linear pulse width modulation (LPWM), it is preferred to operate the boost multi-level inverter. The fuzzy logic control and the PID control are used to manage the LPWM that allows the switches to operate. The fuzzy logic algorithm is presented by giving necessary mathematical equations that have second-degree differential equations for the fuzzy logic controller. After that, the fuzzy logic controller is set up in the 9-level inverter. The proposed model runs on different membership positions of the triangles at the fuzzy logic controller after testing the PID controller. After the output voltage of the converter, the output voltage of the inverter and the output current of the inverter are observed at the MATLAB SIMULINK, the obtained results are analysed and compared. The results show the demanded performance of the inverter and approve the contribution of the fuzzy logic control on multi-level inverter circuits.


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