Recent advances and industrial applications of multilevel converters

S Kouro, M Malinowski, K Gopakumar… - IEEE Transactions …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multilevel converters have been under research and development for more than three
decades and have found successful industrial application. However, this is still a technology …

Multilevel inverters: A literature survey on topologies and control strategies

N Mittal, B Singh, SP Singh, R Dixit… - 2012 2nd International …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multilevel inverters have been attracting in favor of academia as well as industry in the
recent decade for high-power and medium-voltage energy control. In addition, they can …

A new cascaded switched-capacitor multilevel inverter based on improved series–parallel conversion with less number of components

E Zamiri, N Vosoughi, SH Hosseini… - IEEE Transactions …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The aim of this paper is to present a new structure for switched-capacitor multilevel inverters
(SCMLIs) which can generate a great number of voltage levels with optimum number of …

Generalized structure for a single phase switched-capacitor multilevel inverter using a new multiple DC link producer with reduced number of switches

R Barzegarkhoo, HM Kojabadi, E Zamiry… - … on Power Electronics, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, initially a new dc/dc converter is proposed which can produce boosted multiple
dc link voltages by using the novel switched-capacitor converter (SCC) and with reduced …

Novel K-type multilevel inverter with reduced components and self-balance

J Zeng, W Lin, D Cen, J Liu - IEEE Journal of Emerging and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article proposed a single-source multilevel inverter (MLI) based on the novel K-type unit
(KTU). The 13-level topology with two KTUs and 1.5 voltage gain is first introduced, and its …

A new topology of cascaded multilevel converters with reduced number of components for high-voltage applications

J Ebrahimi, E Babaei… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a new topology of a cascaded multilevel converter is proposed. The proposed
topology is based on a cascaded connection of single-phase submultilevel converter units …

Power quality improvement in modular multilevel inverter using for different multicarrier PWM

T Kaliannan, JR Albert, DM Begam… - European journal of …, 2021 - ejece.org
Pulse width modulation (PWM) is a powerful technique employed in analog circuit convert
with a microprocessor based digital output. Besides, Pseudo Random Multi Carrier (PRMC) …

A hybrid cascade converter topology with series-connected symmetrical and asymmetrical diode-clamped H-bridge cells

A Nami, F Zare, A Ghosh… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel H-bridge multilevel pulsewidth modulation converter topology based on a series
connection of a high-voltage diode-clamped inverter and a low-voltage conventional inverter …

Extended multilevel converters: an attempt to reduce the number of independent DC voltage sources in cascaded multilevel converters

E Babaei, M Farhadi Kangarlu… - IET Power Electronics, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The cascaded multilevel converters are the most favorable topologies of multilevel
converters. However, they have the main disadvantage of using multiple independent dc …

Multilevel medium-frequency link inverter for utility scale photovoltaic integration

S Essakiappan, HS Krishnamoorthy… - IEEE transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A multilevel topology with medium-frequency ac link for medium-voltage grid integration of
utility photovoltaic (PV) plants is discussed in this paper. A megawatt-scale PV plant is …