scholarly journals Design and Analsyis of 31-Level Asymmetric Cascaded H-Bridge Multilevel Inverter with Reduced Number of Switches

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-28
Author(s):  
Manoranjan A ◽  
Christober Asir Rajan C

A new multilevel inverter with less no of power switches is proposed. This is based on cascaded H-bridge topology. The design and analysis of 31-level reduced switch inverter with different modes of operation are presented in this paper. The proposed inverter is asymmetric in nature and it uses unequal DC voltage sources. PD-PWM modulation technique has been used here to get proper switching. The proposed idea has been validated through simulation and the received results provides better efficiency, less low order harmonics and less switching losses.

Author(s):  
CH. Sajan

Multilevel inverters are widely used because of its increased power rating with reduced harmonics and electromagnetic interference. The proposed 7-level cascaded H-Bridge inverter is symmetrical in nature and uses equal sources of DC voltage. Whereas 31-level cascaded H-Bridge inverter is asymmetrical in nature and uses unequal sources of DC voltage. The PD-PWM modulation technique was used here to achieve switching sequence. The proposed idea was validated through simulation and the results provide better efficiency, fewer low order harmonics and lower switching losses. The proposed topology is simulated using MATLAB / SIMULINK.


2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (06) ◽  
pp. 1950089 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Thiyagarajan ◽  
P. Somasundaram ◽  
K. Ramash Kumar

Multilevel inverter (MLI) has become more popular in high power, high voltage industries owing to its high quality output voltage waveform. This paper proposes a novel single phase extendable type MLI topology. The term ‘extendable’ is included since the presented topology can be extended with maximum number of dc voltage sources to synthesize larger output levels. This topology can be operated in both symmetrical and asymmetrical conditions. The major advantages of the proposed inverter topology include minimum switching components, reduced gate driver circuits, less harmonic distortion and reduced switching losses. The comparative analysis based on the number of switches, dc voltage sources and conduction switches between the proposed topology and other existing topologies is presented in this paper. The comparison results show that the proposed inverter topology requires fewer components. The performance of the proposed MLI topology has been analyzed in both symmetrical and asymmetrical conditions. The simulation model is developed using MATLAB/SIMULINK software to verify the performance of the proposed inverter topology and also the feasibility of the presented topology during the symmetrical condition has been validated experimentally.


2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aparna Prayag ◽  
Sanjay Bodkhe

In this paper a basic block of novel topology of multilevel inverter is proposed. The proposed approach significantly requires reduced number of dc voltage sources and power switches to attain maximum number of output voltage levels. By connecting basic blocks in series a cascaded multilevel topology is developed. Each block itself is also a multilevel inverter. Analysis of proposed topology is carried out in symmetric as well as asymmetric operating modes. The topology is investigated through computer simulation using MATLAB/Simulink and validated experimentally on prototype in the laboratory.


In the couple of years, the demand of multilevel inverter has expeditiously increased in the field of utilization of electrical energy. Because the multilevel inverter is a key technology to integrate the different renewable energy sources (wind, solar etc) with the grid. In this research work, authors have configured a novel topology of nine level multilevel inverter has less number of switches with dc voltage sources. The presented approach has been designed to 9-level inverter with seven unidirectional switches with voltage sources. It comprises of an H-bridge which synthesize to ac voltage by utilizing almost all possible additive and subtractive cases of the voltage sources with its combinational power switches and generated optimal firing angles using selective harmonic elimination method with Genetic Algorithm to decrease the lower order harmonic present in the output voltage of the, which supplied by the presented nine-level inverter. It has been concluded that presented approach use a less number of power switches in drive circuit and the number of dc voltage sources also make a simple circuit and enhance the efficiency of the complete system


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 5180-5185

Paper Setup must be in A4 size with Margin: Top In the present paper multi carrier sinusoidal modulation technique which is an efficient method of producing control signals is used for a symmetrical inverter with several levels in cascade H Bridge is discussed. The Cascaded H-Bridge performance output levels depend on the DC voltage sources used at the input side. With the help of two DC voltage sources, five level output can be obtained whereas three sources gives levels of seven in output voltage. In this paper, multi-carrier SPWM switching is obtained for switching of multilevel inverter based switches. Two signals are used in this switching method, among which one of the signals is reference which is a low frequency sinusoidal signal and the one is a carrier signal. In case of sinusoidal PWM method of modulation technique, the reference signal is a sinusoidal one and triangular signal can be used as a carrier signal. These types of inverters have the ability to generate inverted output voltage with an efficient harmonic spectrum and reliable output results. This document provides switching signal for H-bridge inverter structure which can improve harmonic performance. The 5-level multilevel inverter is simulated for traditional carrier-based pulse-width modulation (PWM) phase change carrier techniques. The total harmonic performance of the output voltages is analyzed for the two PWM control methods. The performance of the symmetrical PWM CHB is simulated using MATLAB-SIMULINK model. Model results show that THD can be minimized to a limit with level shifted modulation method of the sinusoidal pulse width. The results from the simulations show that the quality of the waveform of the output voltage improves with less loss and with a lower THD.


Energies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annamalai Thiruvengadam ◽  
Udhayakumar K

In this paper, an enhanced H-Bridge multilevel inverter is proposed with the sinusoidal tracking algorithm. The proposed multilevel inverter (MLI) consists of two half H-Bridges cascaded with two unidirectional switches, n direct current (DC) sources, and (n-2) number of bi-directional switches together to form an enhanced H-Bridge (EHB) multilevel inverter. The output voltage levels of an EHB MLI depends on the number of DC sources, the number of bi-directional switches, and the relationship between the magnitude of left-side and right-side DC sources. With the addition of DC sources, bidirectional switches, and employing the sinusoidal tracking algorithm, the performance of the inverter is enhanced with features like an increased number of levels and a reduction in the total harmonic distortion and switching losses. In all the modes of operation of the proposed inverter, only three switches are “ON”, so that conduction losses are less. The proposed enhanced H-Bridge MLI is simulated using MATLAB/Simulink R2017a, and is verified with the experimental result.


2022 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-57
Author(s):  
Aws Al-Jrew ◽  
Jawad Mahmood ◽  
Ramzy Ali

In this article, a comparison of innovative multilevel inverter topology with standard topologies has been conducted. The proposed single phase five level inverter topology has been used for induction heating system. This suggested design generates five voltage levels with a fewer number of power switches. This reduction in number of switches decreases the switching losses and the number of driving circuits and reduce the complexity of control circuit. It also reduces the cost and size for the filter used. Analysis and comparison has been done among the conventional topologies (neutral clamped and cascade H-bridge multilevel inverters) with the proposed inverter topology. The analysis includes the total harmonic distortion THD, efficiency and overall performance of the inverter systems. The simulation and analysis have been done using MATLAB/ SIMULINK. The results show good performance for the proposed topology in comparison with the conventional topologies.


Author(s):  
Rabiya Rasheed ◽  
Saju K K ◽  
Bindu V

<p>This paper presents a new topology for cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter utilizing multicarrier modulation technique. The new five-level topology utilizes a capacitive divider network consisting of two capacitors for producing output voltage levels. The developed circuit has reduced number of switches and dc sources compared to conventional five level inverters. Five main power switches, a single additional diode apart from antiparallel diodes, two capacitors and a dc supply constitute a single five level unit. Simulations as well as experimental results are verified for the new topology utilising multicarrier modulation technique with reduced harmonic distortions in the output.</p>


Author(s):  
Radouane Majdoul ◽  
Abelwahed Touati ◽  
Abderrahmane Ouchatti ◽  
Abderrahim Taouni ◽  
Elhassane Abdelmounim

<span lang="EN-US">A new bidirectional multilevel inverter topology with a high number of voltage levels with a very reduced number of power components is proposed in this paper. Only TEN power switches and four asymmetric DC voltage sources are used to generate 25 voltage levels in this new topology. The proposed multilevel converter is more suitable for e-mobility and photovoltaic applications where the overall energy source can be composed of a few units/associations of several basic source modules. Several benefits are provided by this new topology: Highly sinusoidal current and voltage waveforms, low Total Harmonic Distortion, very low switching losses, and minimum cost and size of the device. For optimum control of this 25-level voltage inverter, a special Modified Hybrid Modulation technique is performed. The proposed 25-level inverter is compared to various topologies published recently in terms of cost, the number of active power switches, clamped diodes, flying capacitors, DC floating capacitors, and the number of DC voltage sources. This comparison clearly shows that the proposed topology is cost-effective, compact, and very efficient. The effectiveness and the good performance of the proposed multilevel power converter (with and without PWM control) are verified and checked by computational simulations.</span>


Author(s):  
Bolla Madhusudana Reddy ◽  
Y. V. Siva Reddy ◽  
M. Vijaya Kumar

<p><span lang="EN-US">This paper proposes a new optimal high level multilevel inverter with minimum number of components. This multi level inverter (MLI) is designed with series combination of basic units which can generate positive levels at output. DC source values applied for each basic unit is different with another. An H bridge is connected across proposed MLI for generating negative levels along with positive levels at output and that inverter considered as proposed high level optimal multilevel inverter. Single unit is responsible producing 21 levels. Therefore six units are connected in cascaded form to increase number of levels as 127 at output. Decrease in the number of power switches, driver circuits, and dc voltage sources are the improvement of the proposed MLI. Sinusoidal multiple pulse width modulation (SPWM) technique is implemented to produce pulses for turning ON switches according requirement. Low total harmonic distortion at output voltage or current production is major advantage of proposed module. The validations of proposed MLI results are verified through MATLAB/SIMULINK.</span></p>


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