Performance Analysis of H-bridge and T-Bridge Multilevel Inverters for Harmonics Reduction

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 231 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Usha ◽  
C. Subramani ◽  
A. Geetha
Keyword(s):  
Pulse Width ◽  
Pulse Width Modulation ◽  
Harmonic Distortion ◽  
Input Voltage ◽  
Multilevel Inverter ◽  
Multilevel Inverters ◽  
Semiconductor Switches ◽  
Output Waveform ◽  
Cascaded Multilevel Inverter ◽  
Sinusoidal Pulse Width Modulation

This paper deals with the design of cascaded 11 level H- bridge inverter. It includes a comparison between the 11 level H-bridge and T-bridge multilevel inverter. The cascaded inverter of higher level is a very effective and practical solution for reduction of total harmonic distortion (THD).These cascaded multilevel inverter can be used for higher voltage applications with more stability. As the level is increased the output waveform becomes more sinusoidal in nature. The inverter is designed using multicarrier sinusoidal pulse width modulation technique for generating triggering pulses for the semiconductor switches used in the device. Through this paper it will be proved that a cascaded multilevel H-bridge topology has higher efficiency than a T-bridge inverter, as whichever source input voltage is provided since input is equal to the output voltage. In T-bridge inverter, the output obtained is half of the applied input, so efficiency is just half as compared to H-bridge. The output waveform is distorted and has higher THD.  The simulation is performed using MATLAB /Simulink 2013 software.

scholarly journals Comparative Study of Total Harmonic Distortion in Multilevel Inverters Based WECS

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3.1) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
B Kandavel ◽  
G Uvaraj ◽  
M Manikandan
Keyword(s):  
Pulse Width ◽  
Pulse Width Modulation ◽  
Harmonic Distortion ◽  
Multilevel Inverter ◽  
Total Harmonic Distortion ◽  
Multilevel Inverters ◽  
Wind Speeds ◽  
Harmonic Content ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Sinusoidal Pulse Width Modulation

This paper presents comparative study of Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) and its individual harmonic contents without grid and with grid for Diode clamped multi level inverter (DCMLI) and Flying capacitor clamped multilevel inverter (FCMLI) based Doubly Fed Induction Generator (DFIG) employing PI and Fuzzy logic controller (FLC). Simple method to control for a variable speed wind energy conversion system with a DFIG is connected to the grid through a diode rectifier and a diode clamped multilevel inverter (DCMLI). The DC-link voltage is controlled through a DC-DC boost converter to keep the DC voltage at constant value. Inverter is controlled by sinusoidal pulse width modulation technique, which supplies power to the grid. The THD and its harmonic content are studied for different wind speeds. DFIG fed flying capacitor multi level inverter (FCMLI) based WECS connected to load as well as grid. FCMLI is controlled through sinusoidal pulse width modulation. Voltage and current harmonics are studied. The results of both multilevel inverters are compared. It shows that the level of harmonic content of two types of multilevel inverters working at different wind speeds indicates that Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) for DCMLI has given best results.  

Multi Carrier based Multilevel Inverter with Minimal Harmonic Distortion

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 356 ◽  
Author(s):  
V.Jamuna Venkatesan ◽  
Gayathrimonicka Subarnan
Keyword(s):  
Pulse Width ◽  
Pulse Width Modulation ◽  
Harmonic Distortion ◽  
Multicarrier Modulation ◽  
Multilevel Inverter ◽  
Total Harmonic Distortion ◽  
Multilevel Inverters ◽  
Cascaded Multilevel Inverter

<p>This paper presents performance features of Asymmetric Cascaded Multilevel inverter. Multilevel inverters are commonly modulated by using multicarrier pulse width modulation (MCPWM) techniques such as phase-shifted multicarrier modulation and level-shifted multicarrier modulation. Amongst these level-shifted multicarrier modulations technique produces the best harmonic performance. This work studies about multilevel inverter with unequal DC sources using level shifting MCPWM technique. The Performances indices like Total Harmonic Distortion (THD), reduction of switches and number of DC Sources are considered. A procedure to achieve the appropriate level shifting is also presented is this paper.</p>

scholarly journals Performance evaluation and comparison of diode clamped multilevel inverter and hybrid inverter based on PD and APOD modulation techniques

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
N. Susheela ◽  
P. Satish Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Pulse Width ◽  
Single Phase ◽  
Pulse Width Modulation ◽  
Control Method ◽  
Harmonic Distortion ◽  
Multilevel Inverter ◽  
Multilevel Inverters ◽  
Number Of Components ◽  
Modulation Techniques ◽  
Modulation Methods

<p>The popularity of multilevel inverters have increasing over the years in various applications without use of a transformer and has many benefits. This work presents the performance and comparative analysis of single phase diode clamped multilevel inverter and a hybrid inverter with reduced number of components. As there are some drawbacks of diode clamped multilevel inverter such as requiring higher number of components, PWM control method is complex and capacitor voltage balancing problem, an implementation of hybrid inverter that requires fewer components and less carrier signals when compared to conventional multilevel inverters is discussed. The performance of single phase diode clamped multilevel inverter and hybrid multilevel inverter for seven, nine and eleven levels is performed using phase disposition, alternate phase opposition disposition sinusoidal pulse width modulation techniques. Both the multilevel inverter are implemented for the above mentioned multicarrier based Pulse Width Modulation methods for R and R-L loads.  The total harmonic distortion is evaluated at various modulation indices. The analysis of the multilevel inverters is done by simulation in matlab / simulink environment.</p>

scholarly journals Design of new structure of multilevel inverter based on modified absolute sinusoidal PWM technique

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 2314
Author(s):  
Asef A. Saleh ◽  
Rakan Khalil Antar ◽  
Harith Ahmed Al-Badrani
Keyword(s):  
Output Voltage ◽  
Pulse Width Modulation ◽  
Harmonic Distortion ◽  
Multilevel Inverter ◽  
Power Circuit ◽  
Zero Level ◽  
Multilevel Inverters ◽  
Simulink Simulation ◽  
High Output Voltage ◽  
Sinusoidal Pulse Width Modulation

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.

Performance Estimation of Multicarrier Based Multilevel Inverter

2014 ◽  
Vol 622 ◽  
pp. 133-139
Author(s):  
Jayabal Gayathri Monicka ◽  
Venkatesan Jamuna ◽  
Kannakumar Hemalatha
Keyword(s):  
Pulse Width ◽  
Pulse Width Modulation ◽  
Harmonic Distortion ◽  
Performance Estimation ◽  
Multilevel Inverter ◽  
Total Harmonic Distortion ◽  
Modulation Technique ◽  
Cascaded Multilevel Inverter

This paper presents performance features of Symmetric and Asymmetric Cascaded Multilevel inverter. Both the Phase shifted and level shifted multicarrier pulse width modulation (MCPWM) technique are used in MLI. The best harmonic performance is improved by Level-shifted multicarrier modulations technique . The objective of this work to propose MCPWM Technique for multilevel inverter with equal and unequal DC sources. The Performances indices like Total Harmonic Distortion (THD), reduction of switches and number of DC Sources is considered. An appropriate method to achieve the MC modulation technique is also presented in this paper.

Performance Analysis of FPGA based Diode Clamped Multilevel Inverter Fed Induction Motor Drive using Phase Opposition Disposition Multicarrier Based Modulation Strategy

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 1512
Author(s):  
Nunsavath Susheela ◽  
Satish Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Induction Motor ◽  
Pulse Width ◽  
Pulse Width Modulation ◽  
Multilevel Inverter ◽  
Multilevel Inverters ◽  
Modulation Technique ◽  
Three Phase ◽  
Field Programmable ◽  
Load Simulation ◽  
Sinusoidal Pulse Width Modulation

<p>Multilevel inverters (MLI) are becoming more popular over the years for medium and high power applications because of its significant merits over two level inverters. This paper presents an implementation of multicarrier based sinusoidal pulse width modulation technique for three phase seven level diode clamped multilevel inverter.  This topology is operated under phase opposition disposition pulse width modulation technique. The performance of three phase seven level diode clamped inverter is analyzed for induction motor (IM) load.  Simulation is performed using MATLAB/SIMULINK. Experimental results are presented to validate the effectiveness of the operation of the diode clamped multilevel inverter using field programmable gate array.</p>

scholarly journals Comparative Analysis of Carrier based techniques for Single phase Diode Clamped MLI and Hybrid inverter with reduced components

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 687
Author(s):  
Nunsavath Susheela
Keyword(s):  
Single Phase ◽  
Pulse Width Modulation ◽  
Control Method ◽  
Harmonic Distortion ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Multilevel Inverter ◽  
Voltage Balancing ◽  
Multilevel Inverters ◽  
The Comparative Study ◽  
Sinusoidal Pulse Width Modulation

<p>The multilevel inverters have highly desirable characteristics in high power high voltage applications. The multilevel inverter was started first with diode clamped multilevel inverter. Later, various configurations have been came into existence for many applications. However the multilevel inverters have some demerits such as requiring higher number of components, PWM control method is complex and capacitor voltage balancing problem. The hybrid multilevel inverter presented in this paper has superior characteristics over conventional multilevel inverters. The hybrid multilevel inverter employs fewer components and less carrier signals when compared to conventional multilevel inverters. It consists of level generation and polarity generation stages which involves high frequency and low frequency switches. The complexity and overall cost for higher output voltage levels are greatly reduced. Implementation of single phase 7-level, 9-level and 11-level diode clamped multilevel inverter and hybrid multilevel inverter has been performed using sinusoidal pulse width modulation (SPWM) strategies i.e., phase disposition (PD), alternate phase opposition disposition (APOD). Also these techniques are compared in terms of total harmonic distortion (THD) for various modulation indices and observed to be greatly improved in case of hybrid inverter when compared to diode clamped inverter. The comparative study of performance for single phase diode clamped multilevel inverter and hybrid inverter is analyzed with different loads.  Simulation is performed using MATLAB/ SIMULINK. </p>

scholarly journals Grid Interconnecting Solar Generation System Using Transformer Less Cascaded Seven Level Inverter

2019 ◽  
pp. 235-245
Author(s):  
Naveen Kokku
Keyword(s):  
Pulse Width Modulation ◽  
Electronic Device ◽  
Harmonic Distortion ◽  
Multilevel Inverter ◽  
Generation System ◽  
Leakage Currents ◽  
Control Scheme ◽  
Passive Filters ◽  
Cascaded Multilevel Inverter ◽  
Sinusoidal Pulse Width Modulation

Multilevel inverter is a power electronic device that is used for high voltage and high power applications and has many advantages like, low switching stress, low total harmonic distortion (THD). Hence, the size and bulkiness of passive filters can be reduced. This paper proposes three topologies of a 7- level cascaded multilevel inverter with reduced number of switches with the 5-level cascaded multilevel inverter and 3-level inverter. The topologies consist of circuits with 9 switches for 7-level CMLI, 8 switches for the 5-level CMLI and 6 switches for the 3-level inverter. Apart from the reduction in switch count this paper also includes minimization of leakage currents and comparative analysis of levels of CMLI’s in every inverter connected to PV source. The control scheme based on Sinusoidal Pulse Width Modulation (SPWM) is adopted due to its ease of implementation. More number of levels results in reduced THD and nearly sinusoidal output. Simulation is performed using Matlab/Simulink.

scholarly journals Hardware implementation of single phase three-level cascaded h-bridge multilevel inverter using sinusoidal pulse width modulation

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 625
Author(s):  
A. Shamsul Rahimi A. Subki ◽  
Mohd Zaidi Mohd Tumari ◽  
Wan Norhisyam Abd Rashid ◽  
Aiman Zakwan Jidin ◽  
Ahmad Nizammuddin Muhammad Mustafa
Keyword(s):  
Pulse Width ◽  
Output Voltage ◽  
Single Phase ◽  
Hardware Implementation ◽  
Pulse Width Modulation ◽  
Sine Wave ◽  
Multilevel Inverter ◽  
Square Wave ◽  
Output Waveform ◽  
Sinusoidal Pulse Width Modulation

<span lang="EN-US">In this paper a hardware implementation of single-phase cascaded H-bridge three level multilevel inverter (MLI) using sinusoidal pulse width modulation (SPWM) is presented. There are a few interesting features of using this configuration, where less component count, less switching losses, and improved output voltage/current waveform. The output of power inverter consists of three form, that is, square wave, modified square wave and pure sine wave. The pure sine wave and modified square wave are more expensive than square wave. The focus paper is to generate a PWM signal which control the switching of MOSFET power semiconductor. The sine wave can be created by using the concept of Schmitt-Trigger oscillator and low-pass filter topology followed by half of the waveform will be eliminated by using the circuit of precision half-wave rectifier. Waveform was inverted with 180º by circuit of inverting op-amp amplifier in order to compare saw-tooth waveform. Two of PWM signal were produced by circuit of PWM and used digital inverter to invert the two PWM signal before this PWM signal will be passed to 2 MOSFET driver and a 3-level output waveform with 45 Hz was produced. As a conclusion, a 3-level output waveform is produced with output voltage and current recorded at 22.5 Vrms and 4.5 Arms. The value of measured resistance is 0.015 Ω that cause voltage drop around 0.043 V. Based on the result obtained, the power for designed inverter is around 100W and efficiency recorded at 75%.</span>

scholarly journals Symmetrical Cascaded Switched-Capacitor Multilevel Inverter Based on Hybrid Pulse Width Modulation

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (22) ◽  
pp. 7643
Author(s):  
Lingling Cao ◽  
Jiefeng Lin ◽  
Shikai Chen ◽  
Yuanmao Ye
Keyword(s):  
Pulse Width ◽  
Output Voltage ◽  
Pulse Width Modulation ◽  
Reactive Power ◽  
Input Voltage ◽  
Industrial Applications ◽  
Multilevel Inverter ◽  
Switching Frequency ◽  
Switched Capacitor ◽  
Cascaded Multilevel Inverter

Multilevel inverters have been widely used in various industrial applications such as renewable energy generation and electric vehicles. An improved circuit of symmetrical cascaded switched-capacitor multilevel inverter is proposed so that the reactive power is absorbed by its power supply instead of capacitors. Then, a special hybrid pulse width modulation strategy combing level-shifted pulse width modulation (LS-PWM) and phase-shifted pulse width modulation (PS-PWM) was developed for the inverter. With this modulation algorithm, the power between cascaded units is automatically balanced, and the voltage of the capacitor in each unit is also automatically balanced to the dc input voltage. In addition, the optimized capacitor voltage ripple makes it possible to use a smaller capacitor to produce a better output voltage waveform. Theoretical analysis, simulation and experimental results show that the equivalent switching frequency of the cascaded multilevel inverter is twice the original frequency so that the output voltage harmonics are only distributed near even multiples of the carrier frequency.

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