A New General Topology for Cascaded Multilevel Inverters With Reduced Number of Components Based on Developed H-Bridge

作者：Babaei Ebrahim^*; Alilu Somayeh; Laali Sara

来源：IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2014, 61(8): 3932-3939.

DOI：10.1109/TIE.2013.2286561

• Cascaded multilevel inverter
• developed H-bridge
• multilevel inverter
• voltage source inverter

In this paper, a new general cascaded multilevel inverter using developed H-bridges is proposed. The proposed topology requires a lesser number of dc voltage sources and power switches and consists of lower blocking voltage on switches, which results in decreased complexity and total cost of the inverter. These abilities obtained within comparing the proposed topology with the conventional topologies from aforementioned points of view. Moreover, a new algorithm to determine the magnitude of dc voltage sources is proposed. The performance and functional accuracy of the proposed topology using the new algorithm in generating all voltage levels for a 31-level inverter are confirmed by simulation and experimental results.

• 出版日期2014-8