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Title: A Self-Balancing Five-Level Boosting Inverter with Reduced Components
Authors: Sandeep, N.
Ali, J.S.M.
Yaragatti, Udaykumar R.
Vijayakumar, K.
Issue Date: 2019
Citation: IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 2019, Vol.34, 7, pp.6020-6024
Abstract: Two-Stage boosting multilevel inverters (MLIs), which are highly suitable for photovoltaic power plants, are known to suffer because of the high voltage stress on the switches of second stage. One of the ways to confront this issue is through eliminating the front-end booster. However, this leads to increased structural and control complexity of the resulting integrated boosting MLI. This letter presents a single-stage boosting MLI requiring lesser number of switches, diodes, and capacitors for renewable power generation applications. It requires nine switches and only one capacitor for five-level voltage generation. The topology has inherent self-balancing capability, thereby does not need additional balancing circuitry. The proposed topology has a uniform peak inverse voltage stress on the switches of value equal to the input dc voltage. A less complicated logic-form-equations-based gating pulse generation scheme is designed for enabling the proposed MLI to maintain its capacitor voltage. Further, a comparative study with state-of-the-art topologies is carried out to demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed topology. Finally, the feasibility of the proposed topology is validated through experimental tests and the corresponding results are elucidated. 1986-2012 IEEE.
URI: 10.1109/TPEL.2018.2889785
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