Seven Level T-Type Switched Capacitor Inverter Topology for PV Applications

Saeed Alyami,Abdulaziz Almutairi,Dhafer Almakhles,Mohammad Obeidat,Jagabar Sathik Mohamed Ali

doi:10.1109/access.2021.3084318

Abstract

The conventional neutral point clamped (NPC) multilevel inverter topology needs voltage balancing circuits to balance the dc-link capacitor, the number of component count is high and output voltage is half of the input voltage which increase the size of the source side dc/dc converter in PV applications. In this paper, a new topology of seven level neutral point clamped inverter is developed. The proposed inverter has a self-voltage boosting capability using a floating capacitor to boost the output voltage one and half of the input voltage. In this proposed topology, no additional sensors are required for the floating capacitor voltage stability, which results in minimizing the complexity of designing the inverter. The direct link between the neutral point and the mid-point of the dc-link capacitors significantly reduces the leakage current and common mode voltage in this inverter. A thorough comparison between the developed topology and recent suggested topologies is carried out which set the benchmark for the proposed one due to its lower switch count and higher voltage gain. The proposed topology is verified in simulation and prototype hardware model and results are discussed with dynamic load variations. The efficiency of the inverter is 97.1% @200W and low as 88.1 % @ inductive load. The voltage THD is 17.01% for simulation and 19.3% I for experimental is results.

Highlights

With the huge dependency for the energy requirement, the cost of the fossil fuels are increasing rapidly with a significant reduction in their quaintly along with the environmental concerns have leads to an investment and research in the other possible resources of energy
Low voltage stress in a new boost active neutral point clamped T-Type 7-Level inverter (BANPC T-7L) topology is proposed in this paper
Mode (+vin/2): The output voltage vin/2, i.e both dc-link capacitors charge the floating capacitor through switches S1, S2, S1 & S2 and half of the input voltage vin/2 is tapped to the load through S3 as shown in Fig. 3(c) and State B given in Table. 1

Summary

Introduction

With the huge dependency for the energy requirement, the cost of the fossil fuels are increasing rapidly with a significant reduction in their quaintly along with the environmental concerns have leads to an investment and research in the other possible resources of energy. To increase the output voltage without adversely affecting the natural phenomena of ANPC, new topologies for switched capacitor multilevel inverter are proposed in [9]–[16].

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