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A Pathway to Explore the Hidden Specialty in the Design of Fifteen Level Inverter in Grid Connected PV System

C. Gopinath^{1, *}, M. Rajvikram¹

1 Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering (Autonomous), Sriperumbudur, Tamilnadu, India.
* Corresponding Author: C. Gopinath. Email: cgopinath@svce.ac.in; drcgopinath@gmail.com.

Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences 2018, 115(3), 359-386. https://doi.org/10.3970/cmes.2018.06143

Abstract

This research paper proposes a single phase fifteen level inverter for a grid connected PV system. The proposed inverter is also called cascaded asymmetric multilevel inverter. By adopting appropriate hybrid modulation technique improved output voltage is obtained with minimum number of power electronic switches. By reducing the number of gate triggering circuits of the switches, the size and power consumption of the driving circuits can be reduced. The total harmonic distortion of the output of the inverter is improved by this inverter. The proposed inverter developed by cascading a full bridge inverter with modified H bridge multilevel inverter. The validity of the proposed system is verified through MATLAB simulations.

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