ASYMMETRICAL CASCADED MULTILEVEL INVERTER USING SINGLE DC POWER SOURCE

G Tejas, Mistry, Mo Shaikh, Suhel A, N Himanshu, Chaudhari
unpublished
Multilevel Inverters can produce a high-power, high-voltage inverter with multilevel structure the way in which device voltage stresses are controlled. A symmetrical standard cascaded multilevel inverter requires 'n' DC sources for '2n+1' levels which needs isolated DC sources for power conversions. This paper aim is to increase the number of level with reduce the no of dc source. The scheme proposed here is to use Asymmetrical Multilevel Inverter with isolated DC power supply. Analysis is
more » ... ded to the use of the single DC power source with the remaining 'n-1' DC source being capacitor and simultaneously maintains the DC voltage level of the capacitor and to choose a fundamental frequency switching pattern to produce a nearly sinusoidal output. Simulation using Matlab simulink is done to verify the performance of Asymmetrical Multilevel Inverter using isolated Dc source. Simulation and hardware results are shown and discussed in this paper.
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