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    A novel fifteen level inverter for photovoltaic power supply system
    (2004) Beig, A.R.; Udaya Kumar, R.Y.; Ranganathan, V.T.
    A novel dc to ac inverter for photovoltaic power supply system is presented in this paper. The objective is to develop a low cost, reliable and efficient photovoltaic power supply unit for domestic applications. A fifteen level cascaded H-Bridge configuration using low voltage MOSFETs as switching devices is used. This configuration results in sinusoidal output voltages with step modulation and fundamental frequency switching. The proposed configuration has reduced conduction loss and switching loss. Simple gate drive circuit is designed using commonly available integrated circuit components. The simulation results are presented.
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    A novel technique for control of Cascaded multilevel inverter for photovoltaic power supplies
    (IEEE Computer Society, 2005) Naik, R.L.; Udaya Kumar, R.Y.
    Multilevel voltage source inverters offer several advantages compared to their conventional counterparts. By synthesizing the AC output terminal voltage from several levels of voltages, staircase wave forms can produced, which approach the sinusoidal wave form with low harmonic distortion, thus reducing filter requirements. The need of several sources on the DC side of the converter makes multilevel technology attractive for photovoltaic applications. The basic modulation techniques enable harmonic elimination by predetermination of the switching angles. This is determined according to a previously calculated and stored pulse width modulated waveform. It has the advantage of operating at fundamental frequency switching. However, this technique is seriously limited as the number of levels increases because of the increased complexity and the reduced accuracy of the non-linear solutions. This paper proposes a novel Multilevel PWM technique (phase-shifted sinusoidal PWM) to over come all these limitations while maintaining switching at fundamental frequency, found better THD. Simulation results are presented in the paper.
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    Transformer-Based seven-level inverter with single-dc supply for renewable energy applications
    (IEEE Computer Society help@computer.org, 2016) Behara, S.; Sandeep, N.; Yaragatti, R.Y.
    This paper puts forward a single-DC source based seven-level inverter for harvesting energy from renewable sources. Three single-phase transformers with cascaded outputs are powered from the switching power circuit resulting in then generation of multilevel at the output of the inverter. The proposed configuration can generate output voltage having levels of magnitude (-3VDC, -2VDC, -VDC, 0, VDC, 2VDC, 3VDC) from the DC supply (VDC). Structurally this topology exhibits the advantage of fewer power devices in comparison to conventional inverter for the generation of same number of output voltage levels. Simple logic gate based gating pulse generation scheme is suggested obviating the need for complex pulsewidth-modulation (PWM) scheme. Simulation results confirming the viability and effectiveness of the proposed inverter are presented. © 2016 IEEE.
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    A new nine-level single-DC source-based inverter topology for distributed generation
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017) Sandeep, N.; Yaragatti, U.R.
    Multilevel inverter enables to completely remove the passive filtering requirement at the grid interfacing end, resulting in improved efficiency and reduced cost. These features have led to increasing attention towards their application to medium and high-power arena. In this paper, investigation of a hybrid 9-level inverter topology for grid integration of renewable energy sources is presented. The structural details, operating principle, capacitor voltage balancing control and the main features of the proposed inverter are presented. The proposed topology is compared with other similar 9-level converters to emphasize its superior characteristics and performance. Simulation results demonstrating the grid connected operation of the converter for two test cases are presented. The results affirm the effectiveness of the capacitor voltage balancing control in maintaining capacitor voltages at set values, under steady state and transient operation of the converter. © 2016 IEEE.
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    A Single Stage Switched-Capacitor Hexad Boost Multilevel Inverter Featuring Boost Ability
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2020) Shiva Naik, B.S.; Yellasiri, Y.; Venkataramanaiah, J.
    Nowadays, curtailment in the number of dc sources, circuit component count along with the boosting gain property of the output voltage are considered as the essential topological features for the new multilevel inverter (MLI) structures. Considering the above, a novel 13-level single-stage switched-capacitor hexad boost (S3 CHB) inverter featuring boosting gain and self-balancing ability is proposed in this paper. Each phase of the proposed \mathrm{S}^{3} CHB-MLI is designed with only 14 semiconductor switches and three electrolytic capacitors. Here, the capacitors' voltages are balanced automatically by utilizing the series-parallel technique effectively. An absence of H-bridge at the back-end makes the circuit to extend for higher levels. Capacitors' voltage ripple are analyzed in detail. Further, a cost comparison is conducted among the state-of-art MLIs to highlight the superiority of the proposed configuration. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed \mathrm{S}^{3} CHB circuit is experimentally demonstrated. Results at different load conditions are captured to prove the inductive load capability. © 2020 IEEE.