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Switching Loss Comparison of a Cascaded Diode-Clamped Inverter with Conventional Multilevel Inverters

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Computational Intelligence in Machine Learning (ICCIML 2022)

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Cascaded H-bridge inverter is best suitable for isolated DC links. It is used in renewable energy applications. The output voltage levels are doubled With respect to number of sources. More number of switches for this inverter is an exceptional snag. In contrary, diode-clamped inverter has high efficiency at fundamental frequency. Though the diode-clamped inverter has poor switching efficiency and expensive, it is the widely used inverter in many power electronic applications. In this paper, a hybrid inverter which uses two diode-clamped inverters in cascade to use isolated DC sources—cascaded diode-clamped inverter (CDCI). This CDCI inverter is considered as hybrid inverter in this paper. This hybrid inverter’s switching losses and conduction losses are compared with conventional topologies.

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  1. Electrical and Electronics Engineering, CVR College of Engineering, Hyderabad, India

    Vinodh Kumar Pandraka & Venkateshwarlu Sonnati

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, CMR Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India

    Vinit Kumar Gunjan

  2. BioAxis DNA Research Centre, Hyderabad, India

    Amit Kumar

  3. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA

    Jacek M. Zurada

  4. Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India

    Sri Niwas Singh

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Pandraka, V.K., Sonnati, V. (2024). Switching Loss Comparison of a Cascaded Diode-Clamped Inverter with Conventional Multilevel Inverters. In: Gunjan, V.K., Kumar, A., Zurada, J.M., Singh, S.N. (eds) Computational Intelligence in Machine Learning. ICCIML 2022. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 1106. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-7954-7_11

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