Author : Baishali Bhattacharjee 1
Date of Publication :7th December 2016
Abstract: With the demand for high power inverter unit, multilevel inverter has been attracting extensive attention from academic as well as industry.The significant advantages of multilevel configuration are voltage sharing both statically and dynamically, and hence the quality of output voltage improves with the number of voltage steps with less harmonic contents.Though multilevel inverter has several advantages, it has drawbacks like for higher levels more number of semiconductor switches are needed which leads to huge size and high cost of the inverter. This paper deals with a novel seven level cascaded multilevel inverter.This topology reduces the complexity and overall size of the system which in turn reduces the harmonics and cost of the entire system.A seven level inverter simulation is carried with the implementation of PWM techniques.The effectiveness of the proposed inverter is adequately validated by softwaresimulation.Further comparison of the proposed topology with the existing topologies exemplifies the efficiency of the proposed topology.
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