Skip to main content

Advertisement

SpringerLink
Log in

Output voltage quality analysis of three-phase multilevel inverters

  • Original Paper
  • Published:
Electrical Engineering Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Multilevel inverters became a key piece in most energy conversion, transportation and management systems. The present paper encompasses a wide total harmonic distortion (THD) investigation of the multilevel inverter output voltages. Such investigation is conducted with cascaded topology for some reasonable number of inverter levels L and various modulation index m. A novel and efficient approach is developed to express analytically the voltage THD bounds. Found upper and lower THD limits for arbitrary L and m apply also for neutral point clamped and flying capacitor topologies. They could really serve as reference for quality analysis of multilevel inverters.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1
Fig. 2
Fig. 3
Fig. 4
Fig. 5
Fig. 6

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. Hammons TJ, Boyer JC, Connors SR, Davies M, Ellis M, Fraser M, Holt EA, Markard J (2000) Renewable energy alternatives for developed countries. IEEE Trans Energy Convers 15:481–493

    Article  Google Scholar 

  2. Lai JS, Pen FZ (1996) Multilevel converters—a new breed of power converters. IEEE Trans Ind Appl 32:509–517

    Article  Google Scholar 

  3. Pouresmaeil E, Gomis-Bellmunt O, Montesinos-Miracle D, Bergas-Jané (2011) Multilevel converters control for renewable energy integration to the power grid. Energy 36:950–963

    Article  Google Scholar 

  4. Tolbert LM, Peng FZ (2000) Multilevel converters as a utility interface for renewable energy systems. IEEE Power Eng Soc Summer Meet 2:1271–1274

    Google Scholar 

  5. Tolbert LM, Peng FZ, Habetler T (1999) Multilevel converters for large electric drives. IEEE Trans Ind Appl 35:36–44

    Article  Google Scholar 

  6. Colak I, Kabalci E, Bayindir R (2011) Review of multilevel voltage source inverter topologies and control schemes. Energy Convers Manag Elsevier 52:1114–1128

    Article  Google Scholar 

  7. Gupta KK, Ranjan A, Bhatnagar P, Sahu LK, Jain S (2016) Multilevel inverter topologies with reduced device count: a review. IEEE Trans Power Electron 31:135–151

    Article  Google Scholar 

  8. Chinnaiyan VK, Jerome J, Karpagam J (2013) An experimental investigation on a multilevel inverter for solar energy application. Electr Power Energy Syst 47:157–167

    Article  Google Scholar 

  9. Rehaoulia A, Rehaoulia H, Fnaiech F (2016) Multilevel power topologies and voltage quality: a literature review. J Magn 21:83–93

    Article  Google Scholar 

  10. Mohan D, Kurub SB (2012) A comparative analysis of multi carrier SPWM control strategies using fifteen level cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter. Int J Comput Appl 4:7–12

    Google Scholar 

  11. Suresh Y, Panda AK (2013) Investigation on hybrid cascaded multilevel inverter with reduced DC sources. Renew Sustain Energy Rev 26:49–59

    Article  Google Scholar 

  12. Kang FS (2010) Modified multilevel inverter employing half- and full-bridge cells with cascade transformer and its extension to photovoltaic power generation. Electr Power Syst Res 80:1437–1445

    Article  Google Scholar 

  13. Huseva O, Roncero-Clemente C, Romero-Cadaval E, Vinnikov D, Jalakas T (2016) Three-level three-phase quasi-Z-source neutral-point-clamped inverter with novel modulation technique for photovoltaic application. Electr Power Syst Res 130:10–21

    Article  Google Scholar 

  14. Yousefpoor N, Fathi SH, Farokhnia N, Abyaneh HA (2012) THD minimization applied directly on the line-to-line voltage of multilevel inverters. IEEE Trans Ind Electron 59:373–380

    Article  Google Scholar 

  15. Mehlmann G, Ruderman A, Herold G (2012) Three-phase multilevel converter voltage quality bounds. In: Proceedings of electric power quality and supply reliability, Tartu, Estonia, pp 57–64

  16. Ruderman A (2015) About voltage total harmonic distortion for single and three-phase multilevel inverters. IEEE Trans Ind Electron 62:1548–1551

    Article  Google Scholar 

  17. Luo FL (2013) Investigating of best switching angles to obtain lowest THD for multilevel DC/AC inverters. In: 8th IEEE conference on industrial electronics and applications, Melbourne, pp 1814–1818

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Research Laboratory SIME, ENSIT, University of Tunis, Tunisia

    Abir Rehaoulia, Habib Rehaoulia & Farhat Fnaiech

Authors
  1. Abir Rehaoulia
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Habib Rehaoulia
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Farhat Fnaiech
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Abir Rehaoulia.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Rehaoulia, A., Rehaoulia, H. & Fnaiech, F. Output voltage quality analysis of three-phase multilevel inverters. Electr Eng 100, 733–739 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00202-017-0543-1

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00202-017-0543-1

Keywords

Search

Navigation