A Highly Efficient Cross-Connected H-Bridge-Style Multilevel Inverter with Lower Power Components †
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Proposed 19-Level Inverter
3. Comparative Analysis
4. Simulation and Experimentation
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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VDC | S1 | S2 | S3 | S4 | S5 | S6 | S7 | S8 | S9 | S10 | S11 | S12 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0 V | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
1 V | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
9 V | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
0 V | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
−1 V | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
−9 V | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Ref No. | NL | NSW | NDS | XTHD | N(D+C) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
3 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 4.56 | 2D |
5 | 17 | 13 | 2 | 3.12 | 18D + 2C |
6 | 11 | 12 | 5 | 3.35 | 12D |
7 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 12.17 | 2C |
11 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 4.9 | 3D + 3C |
Proposed | 19 | 12 | 3 | 4.36 | - |
Load | Vo | Io | Po | %eff | THD |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
R | 180 | 2 | 360 | 95.16 | 4.30 |
RL | 180 | 2 | 360 | 94.34 | 4.26 |
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Loganathan, V.; Ravikumar, D.; Saikumar, K.S.; Kesavan, R. A Highly Efficient Cross-Connected H-Bridge-Style Multilevel Inverter with Lower Power Components. Eng. Proc. 2023, 56, 38. https://doi.org/10.3390/ASEC2023-15296
Loganathan V, Ravikumar D, Saikumar KS, Kesavan R. A Highly Efficient Cross-Connected H-Bridge-Style Multilevel Inverter with Lower Power Components. Engineering Proceedings. 2023; 56(1):38. https://doi.org/10.3390/ASEC2023-15296
Chicago/Turabian StyleLoganathan, Vijayaraja, Dhanasekar Ravikumar, Kesav Sanadhan Saikumar, and Rupa Kesavan. 2023. "A Highly Efficient Cross-Connected H-Bridge-Style Multilevel Inverter with Lower Power Components" Engineering Proceedings 56, no. 1: 38. https://doi.org/10.3390/ASEC2023-15296