MULTI LEVEL INVERTER
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INTRODUCTION
Numerous industrial applications require higher power
apparatus in recent years.
Multilevel inverter is introduced for the above cause.
It has overshadowed the conventional 2-level inverter.
It can be easily interfaced to the renewable energy
sources.
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Points to be highlighted
Need of MLI
Topologies of MLI
Discussion on DCMLI
Discussion on FCMLI
Discussion on cascade multi-level inverter
Future work
Conclusion
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Topologies Of MLI
Diode -Clamped Multi-level Inverter
Flying -Capacitor Multi-level Inverter
Cascade Multi-level Inverter
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Diode – Clamped Multi-level Inverter
BRIEF IDEA-
An m-level DCMLI consists of
m-1 capacitors on the dc bus
2(m-1) switching devices
(m-1)(m-2) clamping diodes
m-level output phase-leg voltage
(2m-1) –level output line voltage
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One leg of a single phase bridge DCMLI
Diode –clamped voltage levels and their
switch states
Output Switch state
Va0 Sa Sa Sa Sa Sa Sa Sa Sa
1 2 3 4 1’ 2’ 3’ 4’
V5=vdc 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0
V4=(3/4)vdc 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0
V3=0.5vdc 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0
V2=0.25vdc 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0
V1=0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1
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Circuit Diagram & Wave form of a Single phase bridge DCMLI
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Pros and Cons(DCMLI)
Pros Cons
More number of voltage More levels More
levels lesser harmonic clamping diodes
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High Inverter efficiency
Control method is simple
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Flying- Capacitor MLI
Ladder structure of dc side capacitors
An m-level FCMLI has
m-levels of phase voltage
2m-1 levels of line voltage
m-1 capacitors
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Pros and Cons(FCMLI)
Advantages Limitations
Phase redundancies are Precharging all the capacitors
available for balancing the to the same voltage level is
voltage levels of the capacitor. difficult.
Large number of capacitors More number of capacitors
enables it to work in the case of more expensive and bulky
short duration outages and deep circuit.
voltage sags.
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CASCADED MULTILEVEL INVERTER
Consists of a series of H-bridges
Uses separate dc sources for each
H-bridges
Output phase voltage level =m
Where m=2Ns+1
Where Ns=number of voltage
sources
here the output phase voltage is
= sum of all the inverter outputs
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Merits and Limitations(CMLI)
merits limitations
compared to DCMLI and Requirements of separate
FCMLI it requires less dc sources limits its uses
number of components to for real power conversion
achieve same number of
voltage levels
Reduced switching losses
and device stresses
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FUTURE WORK
A suggestion for future research concerns the
unified approach switching scheme.
Another suggestion is to implement the multi-
level inverter with unequal dc sources.
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Conclusion
This chapter has demonstrated the fundamental multilevel
inverter structures and including the pros and cons .
This presentation has covered the basic ideas of the
multilevel inverter.
Emerging as a new breed of power converters for high-voltage
high-power applications.
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Thank You!
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