Five-Level Inverter for Renewable Power Generation System

In this paper, a five-level inverter is developed and applied for injecting the real power of the renewable power into the grid to reduce the switching power loss, harmonic distortion, and electromagnetic interference caused by the switching operation of power electronic devices. Two dc capacitors,...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on energy conversion 2013-06, Vol.28 (2), p.257-266
Main Authors: Shen, Jia-Min, Jou, Hurng-Liahng, Wu, Jinn-Chang, Wu, Kuen-Der
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Capacitors
Harmonic distortion
Inverters
Modulation
power electronics
Power generation
Switches
Voltage control
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Summary:In this paper, a five-level inverter is developed and applied for injecting the real power of the renewable power into the grid to reduce the switching power loss, harmonic distortion, and electromagnetic interference caused by the switching operation of power electronic devices. Two dc capacitors, a dual-buck converter, a full-bridge inverter, and a filter configure the five-level inverter. The input of the dual-buck converter is two dc capacitor voltage sources. The dual-buck converter converts two dc capacitor voltage sources to a dc output voltage with three levels and balances these two dc capacitor voltages. The output voltage of the dual-buck converter supplies to the full-bridge inverter. The power electronic switches of the full-bridge inverter are switched in low frequency synchronous with the utility voltage to convert the output voltage of the dual-buck converter to a five-level ac voltage. The output current of the five-level inverter is controlled to generate a sinusoidal current in phase with the utility voltage to inject into the grid. A hardware prototype is developed to verify the performance of the developed renewable power generation system. The experimental results show that the developed renewable power generation system reaches the expected performance.
ISSN:0885-8969
1558-0059
DOI:10.1109/TEC.2013.2252352