A Novel Condensed Device Count Multilevel Inverter Using Seventeen Levels For Electric Drive Applications

Abstract

Multilevel inverters (MLIs) are now becoming more prominent in high and medium voltage applications. Because MLI has a number of intrinsic advantages more than two-level inverters, including good-quality output, reduced switch ratings, less total harmonic distortion(THD),higher efficiency and more. While traditional topologies remain useful in many areas, innovative multilevel topologies are gaining popularity as a means of lowering the power semiconductor switches, isolated DC sources and/or gate drivers. In this paper, we give a complete assessment of seventeen levels of proposed novel multilevel inverter (MLIs) topology, using MATLAB/SIMULINK; simulations of the suggested topologies were carried out.