Abstract

Multilevel inverters play an important role in extracting the power from renewable energy resources and delivering the output voltage with high quality to the load. This paper proposes a new single-stage switched capacitor nine-level inverter, which comprises an improved T-type inverter, auxiliary switch, and switched cell unit. The proposed topology effectively reduces the DC-link capacitor voltage and exhibits superior performance over recently switched-capacitor inverter topologies in terms of the number of power components and blocking voltage of the switches. A level-shifted multilevel pulse width modulation scheme with a modified triangular carrier wave is implemented to produce a high-quality stepped output voltage waveform with low switching frequency. The proposed nine-level inverter’s effectiveness, driven by the recommended modulation technique, is experimentally verified under varying load conditions. The power loss and efficiency for the proposed nine-level inverter are thoroughly discussed with different loads.

Details

Title
Experimental validation of new self-voltage balanced 9L-ANPC inverter for photovoltaic applications
Author
Jagabar, Sathik M 1 ; Almakhles, Dhafer J 2 ; Sandeep, N 3 ; Siddique Marif Daula 4 

 Prince Sultan University, Renewable Energy Lab, College of Engineering, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (GRID:grid.443351.4) (ISNI:0000 0004 0367 6372); SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India (GRID:grid.412742.6) (ISNI:0000 0004 0635 5080) 
 Prince Sultan University, Renewable Energy Lab, College of Engineering, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (GRID:grid.443351.4) (ISNI:0000 0004 0367 6372) 
 Malviya National Institute of Science and Technology, Jaipur, India (GRID:grid.443351.4) 
 Univerity of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (GRID:grid.10347.31) (ISNI:0000 0001 2308 5949) 
Publication year
2021
Publication date
2021
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20452322
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2495703226
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2021. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.