%0 Conference Paper
%A Ali, J.S.M.
%A Kannan, R.
%A Romlie, M.F.
%D 2015
%F scholars:6112
%I Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
%K Electric inverters; Energy conversion; Harmonic distortion; Topology; Wave filters, Cascaded multilevel converter; DC/AC power conversion; Gate driver circuit; Multilevel converter; Number of switches; Power switches; Series/parallel combination; Total harmonic distortion (THD), Power converters
%P 498-503
%R 10.1109/CENCON.2015.7409595
%T New cascaded multilevel converter topology based on basic unit with reduction of DC sources
%U https://khub.utp.edu.my/scholars/6112/
%X Multilevel converters have been considered today as the state of the art of DC/AC power conversion technology for high power medium voltage applications without the negation of power quality. This paper presents a new multilevel converter topology with minimum power electronics switches (IGBTs). This topology has a basic unit of 4 switches with a series/parallel combination of isolated DC sources. The comparison for the required number of switches, power diode, gate driver circuits and voltage stress across the switches of proposed topology with conventional and other novel topologies are discussed. This structure minimizes the total harmonic distortion (THD) in the output voltage waveform with reduced DC source. The operation and validation of the proposed multilevel converter is verified by simulation results of a single-phase 11-level converter. © 2015 IEEE.
%Z cited By 0; Conference of 2nd IEEE Conference on Energy Conversion, CENCON 2015 ; Conference Date: 19 October 2015 Through 20 October 2015; Conference Code:119526