Analysis of A Single Phase Symmetrical Seven Level Inverter

C. R. Balamurugan*, S. P. Natarajan**, M. Arumugam***, R. Bensraj****
* Department of EEE, Arunai Engineering College, Tiruvannamalai, Tamilnadu, India.
** Department of EIE, Annamalai University, Chidambaram, Tamilnadu, India.
*** Department of EEE, Arunai College of Engineering, Tiruvannamalai , Tamilnadu, India.
**** Department of EEE, Annamalai University, Chidambaram, Tamilnadu, India.
Periodicity:January - March'2015
DOI : https://doi.org/10.26634/jee.8.3.3163

Abstract

In this paper, a new single-phase cascaded multilevel inverter is proposed. This structure consists of series connection of proposed basic unit blocks which are built with both unidirectional and bidirectional switches. It can generate only positive Levels at the output. Therefore, an H-bridge is added to the proposed inverter. This inverter is called developed cascaded multilevel inverter. The proposed topology requires lesser number of power switches, drive circuits and dc voltage sources that lead to reduction installation space and cost of the inverter. Thus the simulation has been carried out for various modulation indices using MATLAB/SIMULINK and the results were verified.

Keywords

Keywords: Cascaded H-bridge Multilevel Inverter, Basic Units, MATLAB/SIMULINK Software.

How to Cite this Article?

Balamurugan, C. R., Natarajan, S. P., Arumugam, M., and Bensraj, R. (2015). Analysis of a Single Phase Symmetrical Seven Level Inverter. i-manager’s Journal on Electrical Engineering, 8(3), 10-17. https://doi.org/10.26634/jee.8.3.3163

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