Performance Study of Multicarrier PWM based Multi-Level Inverter with Reduced Components (original) (raw)

Abstract

Applications of multi-level inverters have been generally accepted for high power high quality purposes. In this paper a multi-level inverter with reduced components has been designed. The power quality of the output waveforms is controlled by the multicarrier pulse width modulation (MCPWM). Different MCPWM methods are reviewed and the outputs are analyzed. The simulation model of 9-level asymmetrical inverter with reduced components is built to validate its operation and the results are presented. Simulation results of different modulation methods are compared. Out of these methods, the phase disposition pulse width modulation (PDPWM) of MCPWM provides better performance in terms of total harmonic distortion (THD).

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