ABSTRACT

Multilevel inverter has emerged recently as a very important alternative in

the area of high-power medium voltage energy control. This thesis presents the
most important topologies like diode clamped inverter (neutral point clamped),
capacitor clamped (flying capacitor) and cascaded multi cell with separate DC
sources. This is also presents the most relevant control and modulation methods
developed for this family of converters; multi-level sinusoidal pulse width
modulation, multi-level selective harmonic elimination and space vector
modulation. Special attention is dedicated to the latest and more relevant
applications of these converters such as laminators, conveyer belts and unified
power flow controllers. The need of an active front-end at the input side for those
inverters supplying regenerative load is also discussed and circuit topology options
are also presented.

The ELEVEN LEVEL inverters were designed and results were also shown
in the thesis.

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3.1.1 Diode Clamped Multilevel Inverter 7

3.1.2 Flying Capacitor Multilevel Inverter 12

3.1.3 Cascaded Multilevel Inverter 14

4 Block Diagram of Simplified H-bridge Multilevel Inverter 17

4.1 Block Diagram of Eleven Level Inverter 18

4.2 Simplified H-bridge eleven Level Inverter 19

4.7.1 Zero Output Level 21

4.7.2 Positive Vdc/5 Output Level 22

4.7.3 Positive 2Vdc/5 Output Level 23

4.7.4 Positive 3Vdc/5 Output Level 24

4.7.5 Positive 4Vdc/5 Output Level 25

4.7.6 Positive Vdc Output Level 26

4.7.7 Negative -Vdc/5 Output Level 27

4.7.8 Negative -2Vdc/5 Output Level 28

4.7.9 Negative -3Vdc/5 Output Level 29

4.7.10 Negative -4Vdc/5 Output Level 30

4.7.11 Negative -Vdc Output Level 31

4.10 Output Waveform 34

5.1 Hardware Circuit Diagram 35

5.2 Multilevel Inverter Simulation Circuit 36

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3.1 Comparison between Four Eleven Level Inverters 6

3.1.1 Diode Camped Voltage levels and their State switches 9

3.1.2 Possible switch combination of the Flying Capacitors 13

Inverter

4.7 Output Voltage according to Switch Condition 32

4.7 Switch Condition for One Cycle 33

4.7 Number of Pulse Generator Requirement for each 34

switch

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