A NEW MODULAR MULTILEVEL CONVERTER TOPOLOGY

BASED ON SWITCHED CAPACITOR

Presented by Under the esteem Guidance of

CH.VAMSI KRISHNA B.RAMESH,M.Tech
15JQ1D4302 Associate Professor

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 ABSTRACT

The increase of transmission frequency reveals

more merits than low or medium-frequency distribution
among different kinds of power applications.
It is complicated to obtain a high-frequency
inverter with both simple circuit topology and straight
forward modulation strategy.
A switched-capacitor-based cascaded multilevel
inverter is proposed in this paper, which is constructed by a
switched-capacitor frontend and H-Bridge backend.

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 CONTENTS
 Objective
 Introduction
 Multi-Level Inverter
 Block Diagram
 Mode of Operation
 Simulation Diagram
 Simulation Results
 Conclusion

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 OBJECTIVE

 The main objective of this project is to present a new

structure for switched-capacitor multilevel inverters
which can generate a great number of voltage levels
with optimum number of components to reduce the
 Number of involved components
 DC-Voltage sources
 Overall cost
 Size
 Losses
 Distortion
 And to increase Efficiency (η)

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 INTRODUCTION
 HIGH-FREQUENCY ALTERNATIONG CURRENT (HFAC)
power distribution system (PDS) potentially becomes an
alternative to traditional DC distribution due to the
fewer components and lower cost. The existing
applications can be found in computer, telecom,
electric vehicle, and renewable energy micro-grid.
 Hence we propose A new modular 13 level converter
topology based on switched capacitor to solve the
purpose.

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 MULTILEVEL
INVERTER
 The multi-level inverter is to synthesize a near
sinusoidal voltage from several levels of dc voltages
 The Multi level inverter is like an inverter and it is used
for industrial applications as alternative in high power
and medium voltage situations. It has been introduced
in 1975 as alternative in high power and medium
voltage situations by NABLE ELAL
Multilevel Inverters are three types:
 Neutral point clamped (NPC)
 Flying capacitor (FC)
 And Cascaded H-bridge (CHB)

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 DIODE CLAMPED MULTILEVEL
INVERTER
(Conventional MLI Stage 1)

 This inverter uses diodes and

provides the multiple voltage
levels through the different
phases to the capacitor banks
which are in series.
 A diode transfers a limited
amount of voltage, thereby
reducing the stress on other
electrical devices. The maximum
output voltage is half of the
input DC voltage.

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 FLYING CAPACITORS
MULTILEVEL INVERTER
(Conventional MLI Stage 2)

 The main concept of this inverter

is to use capacitors. It is of series
connection of capacitor clamped
switching cells.
 In this inverter switching states
are like in the diode clamped
inverter.
 Clamping diodes are not required
in this type of multilevel
inverters.

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 CASCADED H-BRIDGE
MULTILEVEL INVERTER
(Conventional MLI Stage 3)

 Multilevel cascade inverters are

used to eliminate the bulky
transformer required in case of
conventional multi phase
inverters, clamping diodes
required in case of diode clamped
inverters and flying capacitors
required in case of flying capacitor
inverters. But these require large
number of isolated voltages to
supply the each cell.
 The combination of capacitors and
switches pair is called an H-bridge
and gives the separate input DC
voltage for each H-bridge.
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 BLOCK DIAGRAM

Block diagram of 9 level Switched Capacitor based Multilevel inverter

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 MODES OF OPERATION

OPERATION MODE 1

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 SIMULATION DIAGRAM 9-
LEVEL

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 SIMULATION RESULTS
9-LEVEL

Waveforms of 9 level SC-based cascaded inverter

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 SIMULATION DIAGRAM
13-LEVEL

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 BLOCK DIAGRAM

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Block diagram of 13 level Switched Capacitor based Multilevel inverter

 SIMULATION RESULTS
13-LEVEL

Time in secs

Voltage waveform of13 level SC-based cascaded inverter

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 SIMULATION RESULT COMPARISON

Voltage waveform of 9 level

SC-based cascaded inverter

Voltage wavefom of 13 level

SC-based cascaded inverter

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 APPLICATIONS

 High-voltage and Medium-voltage motor drives

 High voltage dc transmission
 Flexible AC transmission system (FACTS)
 Electric Traction i.e Railway and EV’s
 Utility interface for renewable energy systems
 computer, telecom
 and renewable energy micro-grid.

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 CONCLUSION

 In this paper, a novel SC-based cascaded multilevel

inverter was proposed. Both 9-level and 13-level
circuit topology are examined in depth. Compared
with conventional cascaded multilevel inverter, the
proposed inverter can greatly decrease the number
of switching devices.
 A new modular multilevel converter topology based
on switched capacitor , was presented with the low
switching frequency and simple implementation.
The accordant results of simulation further confirm
the feasibility of proposed circuit and modulation
method.

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 FUTURE SCOPE

 The number of voltage levels can be further

increase the level number generated by cascaded
H-Bridge. Seventeen-level inverters Etc.
 HVDC transmission lines and large wind turbine
applications can be studied as future work.
 Future work related to this research is to perform
complete realization of proposed multilevel
inverter in closed loop control system. Investigation
of proposed multilevel inverters to replace the
conventional inverters used in the micro-grid
applications.

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