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Reviewing the Performance of an Improved Seven-Level Multilevel Inverter for Various Pulse Width Modulation Techniques

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Multilevel inverter has become a unique choice in industries at high-power applications. It is mainly due to the high-quality output waveform. Conventional MLIs use many power switches and the design of such a topology is not economical. An improved single-phase MLI is suggested in this article. The circuit consists of reduced number of power switches and hence it possesses a simple control circuitry. The appealing feature of the designed circuit is only a single power switch is switched at a high frequency at anytime during the operation. It minimizes the electromagnetic interference and switching losses in the circuit. The performance of the said topology is investigated using sinusoidal pulse width modulation (SPWM) techniques in Simulink software. The performance of the proposed converter is compared with different PWM techniques.

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  1. School of Electrical Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

    K. Aroul, S. Umashankar & K. R. Prabhu

  2. Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park, Johannesburg, South Africa

    P. Sanjeevikumar

  3. Research and Development, Power Electronics Division, Ohm Technologies, Chennai, India

    P. Sanjeevikumar

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  1. Smart Energy Research Unit, College of Engineering and Science, Victoria University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Akhtar Kalam

  2. Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    Swagatam Das

  3. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Rangpo, Sikkim, India

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Aroul, K., Umashankar, S., Prabhu, K.R., Sanjeevikumar, P. (2018). Reviewing the Performance of an Improved Seven-Level Multilevel Inverter for Various Pulse Width Modulation Techniques. In: Kalam, A., Das, S., Sharma, K. (eds) Advances in Electronics, Communication and Computing. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 443. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4765-7_51

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