In this paper, a multilevel inverter has been designed and improved in order to lower the number of switching devices, especially when the number of level of the output power is large. The input to the inverter comes from internal direct current (DC) resources which are interconnected via the power circuit breaker. Compared to the classical topologies and similar designs, the proposed method needs lower number of switching device to provide the same power levels at the output. As a precursor, we have drawn the desired topology for a 9-level power level. The procedure can be completed using switching by a phase shift keying techniques, which in addition, make practical output power with higher number of levels. The proposed topology has been tested against topologies of the power class 1 and/or similar classes, based on the simulations in the MATLAB/Simulink environment. The results of the simulation deemed to be promising for future networks. تفاصيل المقالة

کاهش تعداد منابع ولتاژ DC مستقل و تعداد قطعات الکترونیک قدرت از موارد مهم مدنظر محققان در طراحی ساختارهای اینوترهای چندسطحی است. کاهش تعداد قطعات یک ساختار در کاهش هزینه کلی آن تاثیرگذار بوده و قابلیت و کارایی آن را افزایش می‌دهد. در این مقاله یک اینورتر چندسطحی خازن سوئیچ‌شونده تک منبعی جدید مبتنی بر سلول‌های پایه پلH ارائه شده است. ساختار پیشنهادی با دو واحد نوع K (KTU) قابلیت تولید نوزده سطح ولتاژ را داشته و دارای ضریب بوست ولتاژ 5/1 است. این مبدل از چهارده سوئیچ، دو دیود، یک منبع ولتاژ و پنج خازن با تعادل خودکار ولتاژ تشکیل شده است. برای بررسی کارایی ساختار پیشنهادی، مطالعه مقایسه‌ای با سایر توپولوژی‌های ارائه شده اخیر انجام شده است. مزایای توپولوژی پیشنهادی شامل استفاده از یک منبع ولتاژ DC، تعادل ‌خودکار ولتاژ خازن‌ها، قابلیت افزایش ولتاژ ورودی، کاهش تعداد قطعات الکترونیک قدرت نسبت به تعداد سطوح ولتاژ خروجی و در نتیجه کاهش هزینه کلی است. شبیه‌‌سازی ساختار پیشنهادی نوزده سطحی با مدولاسیون فرکانس پایه برای بررسی عملکرد صحیح آن در محیط سیمولینک متلب ارائه شده است. نمونه آزمایشگاهی ساختار پیشنهادی برای بررسی صحت نتایج شبیه‌سازی پیاده‌سازی شده و نتایج حاصل بیانگر عملکرد مناسب ساختار پیشنهادی است. تفاصيل المقالة

As grid-connected Photovoltaic (PV) based inverters are being used more, these systems play a more important role in the electricity generation by distributed power generators. Power injection to the grid needs to meet predefined standards.In order to meet the harmonics requirement of standards, they need an output filter. The connection through an LCL filter offers certain advantages, but it also brings the disadvantage of having a resonance frequency.LCL filter can easily help the system to satisfy these requirements but also introduce a resonance peak which makes the system control a challenging task. In this paper, a three-level Neutral Point Clamped (NPC) inverter is connected to the grid through an LCL filter. The injected current of the inverter is controlled using Proportional-Resonant (PR) controllers. The resonant peak of the filter is also damped using capacitor current feedback. A systematic mathematical design procedure for controller and filter capacitor current feedback coefficients is investigated in details. Simulations are carried out in MATLAB/Simulink environment and results depict suitable performance of the system with designed parameters. تفاصيل المقالة

In this paper, unbalanced, nonlinear and asymmetric ohmic-inductive three-phase load are supplied by the NPC inverter based on the model named Model Predictive Control (MPC). The MPC is designed for the compensator. The basic principles of MPC as well as MPC model are described in this paper. The design of the proposed controller along with the MPC control steps for controlling the power converter and modeling the power converter are provided to determine all possible switching conditions. Also, the cost function that describes the optimal behavior of the system is formulated. Further, discrete models are defined when future behavior predicts controlled variables. Then the switching modes of the NPC inverter are presented and the control scheme is described based on the control schema for the MPCs with the purpose of power converters and drives, variables prediction and cost function definition. The system performance is evaluated based on the proposed method in various loads including symmetric load and symmetric reference flow, unbalanced load, and symmetric phase voltage. The simulation results indicate the optimal performance of the proposed method in supplying three-phase load demand with optimal quality so that the current distortion is low and the inverter output voltage is also multi-level. In addition, considering asymmetric ohmic-inductive loadand step variation in load, the harmonic distortion of the flow is 0.5% in a phase and the output voltage of inverter is also extracted multilevel. The best advantage of the proposed approach compared to SVM methods is controlling without the use of 3D SpaceVector. This makes it easier to compute and implement easier than the 3D-SVM. تفاصيل المقالة