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A Novel MLI Topology with Reduced Power Switches

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Power Electronics and Renewable Energy Systems

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering ((LNEE,volume 326))

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The Multilevel inverter is a most attractive inverter in high power-medium voltage energy conversion. It can produce switched waveform with free of or reduced total harmonic distortion. It can produce most sinusoidal voltage with increase in number of output level. But increase in level that requires more number of switches which lead to increase the cost, space and complexity in control. In this paper, we proposed new multilevel inverter topology with reduced number of switches which reduce the size and cost considerably. Also the comparison of work with the existing types of multilevel inverter topologies is addressed. The validation of proposed inverter is verified with simulation result using MATLAB. The proposed method will reduce the limitation of multilevel inverter for real time application and viable as a commercial product.

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  1. Central Power Research Institute, Bangalore, India

    N. Vinothkumar & V. Arunachalam

  2. Dr. N.G.P. Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, India

    V. Kumar Chinnaiyan

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  1. Electrical & Electronics, Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

    C. Kamalakannan

  2. Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Noorul Islam College of Engineering, Kumaracoil, Tamil Nadu, India

    L. Padma Suresh

  3. Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, SRM University SRM Engineering College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

    Subhransu Sekhar Dash

  4. Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India

    Bijaya Ketan Panigrahi

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Vinothkumar, N., Arunachalam, V., Kumar Chinnaiyan, V. (2015). A Novel MLI Topology with Reduced Power Switches. In: Kamalakannan, C., Suresh, L., Dash, S., Panigrahi, B. (eds) Power Electronics and Renewable Energy Systems. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 326. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2119-7_35

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