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Modeling of PV Powered Seven-Level Inverter for Power Quality Improvement

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In this article, a solitary-phase seven-level series connected H-Bridge powered by photovoltaic MPPT-based SHAPF in view of basic controller is proposed. SRF is utilized for reference input current extraction and to create pulses for the SHAPF. The principle point of the cascaded bridge is to dispense harmonics, enhance power factor, and reactive energy compensation of the single-phase distribution framework. The suggested control calculation has two parts, changing the load current into stationary reference outline directions and estimation of peak amplitude of load currents. Consequently, a basic and dependable controller effortlessly of execution was created. The calculation for single-phase SHAF is intending to perform with exact tracking performance under step changes in load currents and to give great dynamic compensation. In this article, synchronous reference theory PLL with Inverse-Park change is adopted for producing quadrature part of current. The execution of the control calculation is tried and assessed utilizing MATLAB/Simulink tool.

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Arulmurugan, R., Chandramouli, A. (2019). Modeling of PV Powered Seven-Level Inverter for Power Quality Improvement. In: Satapathy, S., Bhateja, V., Das, S. (eds) Smart Intelligent Computing and Applications . Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 105. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1927-3_12

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