Implementation of an Optimum Reduced Components Multicell Multilevel Inverter (MC-MLI) for Lower Standing Voltage

Multilevel inverters (MLI) with reduced components are becoming popular to achieve higher voltage levels with lower cost and complexities of the circuit. Most of the reduced switch MLIs use a large number of isolated voltage sources that have a large total standing voltage (TSV) and higher losses. M...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on industrial electronics (1982) 2020-04, Vol.67 (4), p.2765-2775
Main Authors: Majumdar, Saikat, Mahato, Bidyut, Jana, Kartick Chandra
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bridge circuits
Capacitors
Circuits
Configurations
DC–AC converter
Electric potential
Inverters
Level (quantity)
multilevel inverters (MLI)
Optimization
photovoltaic (PV) integration
power conversion
reduced components
Stress
Switches
Switching circuits
Through-silicon vias
Voltage
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Summary:Multilevel inverters (MLI) with reduced components are becoming popular to achieve higher voltage levels with lower cost and complexities of the circuit. Most of the reduced switch MLIs use a large number of isolated voltage sources that have a large total standing voltage (TSV) and higher losses. Moreover, many reduced component MLIs have been developed to reduce the number of switches only and have not utilized the dc-link voltages properly. Thus, an inverter needs to be designed in which the number of dc sources is also small and utilized fully. In this paper, a novel single-phase, multicell MLI configuration is presented that can generate a maximum number of output voltage levels using a minimum number of switches and dc sources. Two optimal configurations of the proposed MLI are proposed based on the minimum requirements of components with the optimum voltage stress of the highest rated switches. Moreover, the TSV of the proposed optimal MLI also becomes low. A generalized multicell optimum MLI is presented and the number of components, voltage stress of all the switches, and the TSV of the proposed as well as the other inverters also determined by the generalized expressions for comparison purpose. The prototype of a specimen 15-level inverter and the optimal 75-level inverter cell is further developed and implemented using DS 1103 in the laboratory to show the effectiveness of the proposed configuration. The experimental results corresponding to the different modulation indices are presented here for the verification of the simulation results.
ISSN:0278-0046
1557-9948
DOI:10.1109/TIE.2019.2913812