This paper presents a new pulse width modulation (PWM) strategy, called extended double carrier PWM, for a two-level voltage source inverter aiming at reducing the RMS current flowing through dc link filtering capacitors on embedded systems over a large modulation index range and for high-power factor loads (cos φ ≥ 0.8). Instead of utilizing two adjacent … - Download [PDF]
This paper presents a new pulse width modulation (PWM) strategy, called extended double carrier PWM, for a two-level voltage source inverter aiming at reducing the RMS current flowing through dc link filtering capacitors on embedded systems over a large modulation index range and for high-power factor loads (cos φ ≥ 0.8). Instead of utilizing two adjacent …
This paper presents a novel three-phase boost flying capacitor three-level inverter topology. Compared with the traditional H-bridge buck inverter, this topology can realize step-up inverter without the previous step-up circuit, and can be applied to the step-up inverter occasions. The topology is simple, and there is no leakage current at both ends of the converter. The converter …
Properly sizing the DC link capacitor for a three phase inverter seems to be a skill that evades most power electronic engineers. The objective of this article is to help you …
In this paper, a novel structure of three-phase six-level hybrid flying-capacitor (6L-HFC) inverter is proposed. This topology provides the benefit of lower harmonic distortion compared to the predecessor topologies with reduced device count, where the THD of line voltage at unity modulation index is 14.53 %. The effectiveness of this topology, along with the proposed …
A new boost-type multilevel inverter using switched capacitor structure is proposed. The main feature of the proposed inverter is boosting and multilevel output with small number of components. Due to the passive voltage balancing of each capacitor maintains a constant voltage without additional control. In this paper, the operation principle, the modulation method, the …
The DC-link capacitor''s purpose is to provide a more stable DC voltage, limiting fluctuations as the inverter sporadically demands heavy current. A design can use different technologies for DC …
Abstract, aluminum electrolytic and DC film capacitors are widely used in all types of inverter power systems, from variable-speed drives to welders, UPS systems and inverters for …
Switched capacitor (SC) multilevel inverter (SCMLI) is a promising alternative to traditional voltage source inverters for industrial and renewable energy applications. In SCMLI, capacitors are used in a specific sequence during charging and discharging either in parallel or series with the source for level generation. During the charging period of the capacitor, a large …
The first step in sizing capacitors for inverter bus link applications should be to understand how much bus link capacitance is required for a given inverter design. The biggest design limitation …
In conventional motor drive systems using pulsewidth modulation (PWM) inverters, large electrolytic capacitors are used for stabilization of the dc-link voltage. Since the electrolytic capacitors are bulky and reduce reliability of the system due to short lifetime, there have been many efforts to eliminate or reduce the electrolytic capacitors in the motor drive …
This paper describes a new 3-phase motor drive inverter suitable for low-voltage high-current modular motors. The inverter features a 2-in-1 combination of a switched-capacitor (SC) step-down converter to reduce the input current delivery losses and a 3-phase inverter with full drive power modulation using only 9 low-voltage switches and 3 capacitors. …
Grid tie inverters require filter components in two key areas: The DC bus and AC output. The AC output filter is a low pass filter (LPF) that blocks high frequency PWM currents generated by …
The topology of a 17-level (17L) hybrid switched-capacitor multilevel inverter (SCMLI) with high voltage gain is presented in this work. A single source, four capacitors, six half-bridge switches (five with antiparallel diodes and one half-bridge without antiparallel diodes), and five diodes is used in the proposed SCMLI. The total standing voltage (TSV), cost function (CF), and …
Abstract— Aluminum electrolytic capacitors are widely used in all types of inverter power systems, from variable-speed drives to welders to UPS units. This paper discusses the considerations …
In this paper, Sliding Mode controller has been sized to control multi-cell converters configured as a three-phase multicellular inverter. Unlike traditional inverters, multicellular inverters ...
This paper suggests a Hybrid Switched-Capacitor 9-Level Boost Inverter (HSC9LBI) topology that provides quadruple voltage-gain. Capability of feeding zero or low power-factor load types as well as natural voltage balancing of capacitors are other merits of suggested HSC9LBI. Two half-bridges are utilized to create bipolar voltage-waveform. The suggested HSC9LBI requires …
This paper proposes a novel five-level single-phase inverter topology. The inverter uses eight power switches, two capacitors, one inductor, one diode, and a small LC filter at the output. Compared to other multilevel inverters, the proposed inverter can achieve up to 400% more output voltage for the same DC link voltage. As a result, it requires the only 1/4 of the …
It was a kind of flying-capacitor inverter, which was based on the main circuit of dual buck inverter. The topology cherished the merits of dual buck inverter, such as no shoot-through problem, no body diode reverse-recovery problem.
Switched-capacitor-based multilevel inverters have been gaining increasing attention in recent years in view of their voltage-boosting capability and capacitor self-balancing properties. However, the existing topologies, which comprise frontend switched-capacitor cells and a backend H-bridge, result in longer discharging duration in some of their switched-capacitors. In addition, the …
A new dc–ac inverter suitable for electrical systems powered by photovoltaics has been developed for applications, such as aircraft, drones, or satellites. The proposed modular input source-load common ground switched-capacitor multilevel inverter (SCMLI) minimizes the number of switches and capacitors, which are necessary for getting the desired number of …
When sizing a DC link capacitor for inverter applications, the ripple current requirement typically ends up being the limiting factor [1] [2] and drives which capacitor is selected. Ripple current, in this context, is referring to the AC current the capacitor must supply to the power bridges and the motor.
Aiming at the key problems of the existing nonisolated photovoltaic (PV) inverter, such as the common mode (CM) leakage current, the voltage up and down ability, and the service life restricted by the electrolytic capacitor, a novel single-stage common-ground zeta-based inverter with nonelectrolytic capacitor is proposed in this article. The proposed inverter is based …
DC bus capacitors take up substantial space in a traction inverter, limiting the traction drive power density. Thus, several commercial capacitor technologies, under consideration for use as DC bus capacitors for electric vehicle traction inverters, were reviewed for their ability to optimize the volume of traction inverters and are evaluated in this paper. Three promising capacitor ...
Because of serious challenges such as air pollution, global warming, and fossil fuels limitations, renewable energy sources such as photovoltaic (PV) systems are increasingly being integrated into the power systems around the world. In this article, a new grid-tied system is proposed for PV applications which consists of an improved flyback DC-DC converter and a new switched …
balance the state of the capacitor voltages, the capacitor voltages at the input of each sub-module of the inverter are measured and depicted in Fig.14.
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The results are considered to develop a low inductance DC-Link design. This paper contributes to the design of film capacitors as well as capacitor banks and the connection to the power module. Detailed analysis of different parts of the DC-link should provide a closer look to main parasitic design parameters of an inverter system.
This article presents a novel 3-Φ inverter that operates from a single direct current source and is based on the idea of switched-capacitor (SC) techniques. Each phase leg of the proposed topology (PT) consists of eight switches, two capacitors, and a diode. This configuration enables the generation of seven levels (line-to-line) voltage waveforms. The …
Abstract: This paper involves the selection and sizing of the appropriate type of dc bus capacitor for various applications utilizing PWM operated three-phase voltage source inverters, such as …
This article presents a grid-connected system for renewable energy source (RES) applications. The proposed system consists of a modified switched-capacitor (SC) based multilevel inverter and a DC-DC flyback converter. By using the DC-DC flyback converter the voltages of DC-link capacitors are adjusted to the same values. This modified SC-based multilevel inverter has …
Integrated Motor Drives (IMDs) are gaining popularity in industrial Variable Speed Drive (VSD) applications, thanks to their more compact realization and simpler installation. However, mission profiles of, e.g., servo applications, demand overload torques of two to three times the nominal value during several seconds, which is thermally challenging for the power …
9 · The CL-type filters adopted in grid-connected current source inverters (CSIs) causes resonance. Capacitor voltage feedback (CVF) based active damping (AD) can suppress this resonance, and has the advantage of simple implementation. However, the amplitude of the filter capacitor voltage is much larger than the amplitude of the direct current, which leads to an …
Switched-capacitor (SC) based multilevel inverter (MLI) technique has been developed rapidly in recent years. However, the majority SC-MLIs operate with hard-switching and suffer from the inrush charging current problem of capacitors. This seriously restricts performance improvement and application. To overcome this issue, this letter introduces zero …