Simulation of Cascade Multilevel Inverter with Reduced Number of Components Based on H- Bridge

CONTENTS
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Acknowledgement i
Abstract ii
Nomenclature iii
List of Figures iv
List of tables v
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 01-02
1 Introduction 01
1.1 Theme 02
CHAPTER 2: INTRODUCTION TO INVERTER 03-07
2.1 DC-AC Inverters 03
2.1.1 Block diagram of DC-AC inverter 03
2.2 Types of inverters 05
2.2.1 Single phase inverter 05
2.2.2 Three phase inverter 06
2.2.3 Multilevel inverter 07
CHAPTER 3: MULTI LEVEL INVERTER (MLI) 08-19
3.1 Introduction to MLI 08
3.2 Classification of MLI 11
3.3 Diode clamped MLI 11
3.3.1 Applications of Diode clamped MLI 12
3.3.2 Advantages of Diode clamped MLI 12
3.3.3 Disadvantages of Diode clamped MLI 13
3.4 Flying capacitor MLI 13
3.4.1 applications of Flying capacitor MLI 14
3.5 Cascaded MLI 14
3.5.1 Advantages of cascaded MLI 16
3.5.2 Applications of cascaded MLI 17

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 3.6 Basics of H Bridge inverter 17
3.6.1 Applications of cascaded H-Bridge MLI 19
3.7 Advantages of MLI 19
CHAPTER 4:HARMONICS 20-25
4.1 Sources of harmonics 20
4.2 Causes of harmonics 21
4.2.1Ccurrent harmonics 21
4.2.2Voltage harmonics 21
4.3 Total harmonic distortions 22
4.3.1Definition 22
4.3.2Measurement 24
4.3.3Effects of THD 24
CHAPTER 5: PROPOSED TOPOLOGY 26-33
5.1 Proposed seven level topology 26
5.2 Proposed general topology 29
5.3 Theoretical analysis 30
5.4 Proposed algorithm to determine the magnitude of
Dc voltage source 31
5.4.1 Proposed seven level inverter 31
5.4.2 Proposed thirty one level inverter 31
5.4.3 Proposed 127-level inverter 32
5.4.4 Proposed general MLI 32
5.5 calculation of losses 32
CHAPTER 6: INTRODUCTION TO MATLAB 34-43
6.1 Introduction 35
6.1.1 graphical versus command line usage 36
6.2 what is simulink 37
CHAPTER 7:SIMULINK RESULTS 44-49
7.1 Introduction 44
7.2 Proposed multilevel inverter 44
 7.2.1 Simulation diagram of proposed seven level inverter 44
7.3 THD of load voltage 48
7.4 THD of load current 48
7.5 system performance 49
CONCLUSION
SCOPE AND FUTURE RESEARCH
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