Abstract

15 Levels Multilevel Inverter with reduced Switches

Multilevel inverters are used to convert DC to AC. It is suitable for the medium and high
power applications. It generates output voltage with less harmonics distortion and quality of
power is improved. Their performance is highly superior to that of conventional inverters due to
reduced harmonic distortion. Circuit complexity is major issue in most of the topologies of
multilevel inverter. As the number of level increases the number of switches increases and the
switching method will be more complicated. The main objective of the proposed topology is to
increase number of levels in the output voltage with reduced number of switches. For this
topology three dc voltage sources and ten switches are required to get 15 levels output.
Simulation analysis of this inverter topology is carried out by using MATLAB/SIMULINK
software. The results for THD are validated by using the FFT window.