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Cascaded Multilevel Inverter with PWM Control Method

	International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology (IJETT)
	© 2013 by IJETT Journal
	Volume-4 Issue-5
	Year of Publication : 2013
	Authors : M.Kiran Kumar , M.Saikiran , Ch.Venkateswarlu

Citation 

M.Kiran Kumar , M.Saikiran , Ch.Venkateswarlu. "Cascaded Multilevel Inverter with PWM Control Method". International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology (IJETT). V4(5):1491-1496 May 2013. ISSN:2231-5381. www.ijettjournal.org. published by seventh sense research group.

Abstract

A hybrid cascaded multilevel inverter with PWM method is presented in this paper. It consists of a standard 3 - leg inverter (one leg for each phase) and H - bridge in series with each inverter leg. It can use only a single DC power source to supply a standard 3 - leg inverter along with three full H - bridges supplied by capacitors . Multilevel carrier - based PWM method is used to produce a five - level phase voltage . The inverter can be used in hybrid electric vehicles ( HEV) and electric vehicles (EV). A simulation model based on PSIM and MATLAB/SIMULINK is developed. An experimental 5 kW prototype inverter is built and tested. The results experimentally validate the proposed PWM hybrid cascaded multilevel inverter.

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Keywords
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