A comparative study on characteristics of major topologies of voltage source multilevel inverters

Author

Malekjamshidi, Zahra ; Jafari, Mohsen ; Islam, Md Rafiqul ; Jianguo Zhu

Author_Institution

Fac. of Eng. & Inf. Technol., Univ. of Technol. Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

fYear

2014

fDate

20-23 May 2014

Firstpage

612

Lastpage

617

Abstract

This paper provides a brief review on characteristics of main topologies of voltage source multilevel inverters. The selected topologies included conventional two levels, flying capacitor, neutral point clamped, three levels and seven levels cascaded H-bridge inverters. Several performances of topologies including quality of waveforms of output voltage, cost, complexity and reliability are selected as indicators for comparative study. The proposed topologies are simulated under the same load conditions in P-SIM environment.

Keywords

PWM invertors; bridge circuits; power capacitors; reliability; topology; P-SIM environment; cascaded H-bridge inverters; complexity waveform quality selection; cost waveform quality selection; flying capacitor; neutral point clamped; output voltage waveform quality selection; pulse width modulation; reliability waveform quality selection; topology selection; voltage source multilevel inverters; Capacitors; Complexity theory; Integrated circuit modeling; Inverters; Pulse width modulation; Reliability; Topology; Multilevel inverter; cascaded H-bridge; flying capacitor; neutral point clamped; pulse width modulation (PWM);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Innovative Smart Grid Technologies - Asia (ISGT Asia), 2014 IEEE

Conference_Location

Kuala Lumpur

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISGT-Asia.2014.6873862

Filename

6873862