A New Boost Switched-Capacitor Multilevel Converter With Reduced Circuit Devices

In this paper, a novel platform for the single phase switched-capacitor multilevel inverters (SCMLIs) is presented. It has several advantages over the classical topologies, such as an appropriate boosting property, higher efficiency, lower number of required dc voltage sources, and other accompanyin...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on power electronics 2018-08, Vol.33 (8), p.6738-6754
Main Authors: Barzegarkhoo, Reza, Moradzadeh, Majid, Zamiri, Elyas, Madadi Kojabadi, Hossein, Blaabjerg, Frede
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Basic converters
Boosting
Capacitors
Charge balancing control
Configurations
Electric potential
Electronic devices
Inverters
multilevel inverters
reduced circuit devices
switched-capacitor (SC) cell
Switches
Switching circuits
Topology
Turning
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Summary:In this paper, a novel platform for the single phase switched-capacitor multilevel inverters (SCMLIs) is presented. It has several advantages over the classical topologies, such as an appropriate boosting property, higher efficiency, lower number of required dc voltage sources, and other accompanying components with less complexity and lower cost. The basic structure of the proposed converter is capable of making nine-level of the output voltage under different kinds of loading conditions. Hereby, by using the same two capacitors paralleled to a single dc source, a switched-capacitor (SC) cell is made that contributes to boosting the value of the input voltage. In this case, the balanced voltage of the capacitors can be precisely provided on the basis of the series-parallel technique and the redundant switching states. Afterward, to reach the higher number of output voltage levels, two suggested SC cells are connected to each other with a new extended configuration. Therefore, by the use of a reasonable number of required power electronic devices, and also by utilizing only two isolated dc voltage sources, which their magnitudes can be designed based on either symmetric or asymmetric types, a 17- and 49-level of the output voltage are obtained. Based on the proposed extended configuration, a new generalized version of SCMLIs is also derived. To confirm the precise performance of the proposed topologies, apart from the theoretical analysis and a complete comparison, several simulation and experimental results are also given.
ISSN:0885-8993
1941-0107
DOI:10.1109/TPEL.2017.2751419