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    A New Single-Source Nine-Level Quadruple Boost Inverter (NQBI) for PV Application
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2022) Singh, A.K.; Raushan, R.; Mandal, R.K.; Ahmad, M.W.
    Multi-level inverters (MLIs) with switched capacitors are becoming popular due to their utilization in AC high-voltage applications as well as in the field of renewable energy. To achieve the required magnitude of output voltage, the switched capacitor (SC) technique employs a lesser number of DC sources in accordance with the voltage across the capacitor. Designing an efficient high-gain MLI with fewer sources and switches needs a rigorous effort. This paper introduces a prototype of a nine-level quadruple boost inverter (NQBI) topology powered by one solar photo-voltaic source using fewer capacitors, switches, and diodes when compared to the other SC-MLIs topology. The suggested NQB inverter produces nine levels of voltage in its output by efficiently balancing the voltages of the two capacitors. The various SC-MLIs are compared in order to highlight the benefits and drawbacks of the proposed nine-level quadruple boost inverter (NQBI) topology. To validate the efficacy of the proposed solar photovoltaic based NQBI without grid connection, detailed experimental results are presented in a laboratory setting under various test conditions. © 2013 IEEE.
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    Five-Level Switched Capacitor Inverter for Photovoltaic Applications
    (Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2022) Singh, A.K.; Mandal, R.K.; Raushan, R.; Anand, R.
    This paper proposes a switched-capacitor based single-phase five-level inverter configuration that operates under boost operation and generates a voltage that is more than the DC source voltage. The proposed five-level inverter uses a capacitor and boots the output voltage. In this proposed inverter, capacitor gets charged in parallel while it discharges in series connections so that output voltage may attain higher magnitude than the DC source voltage. Sinusoidal Pulse Width Modulation-based techniques are considered to produce the required gate pulses for operating the switching devices of the inverter. The five-level switched-capacitor inverter is combined with the PV system via DC–DC boost converters to extract the maximum power using MPPT algorithm. To verify its capability, the PV-based system is further integrated to the utility grid. The operation and performance of the suggested switched-capacitor inverter coupled with the grid-connected PV system are also analyzed by developing its model in MATLAB/Simulink environment. © 2022 IETE.