A New Type of Multilevel Inverter and Its Modular Analysis
Wang Yaoqiang1,2, Li Na1,2, Zhao Zhaoyang1,2, Chen Tianjin3, Liang Jun1,4
1. School of Electrical Engineering Zhengzhou University Zhengzhou 450001 China; 2. Henan Engineering Research Center of Power Electronics and Energy Systems Zhengzhou 450001 China; 3. Henan Key Laboratory of Intelligent Charging Technology Xuchang 461000 China; 4. School of Engineering Cardiff University Cardiff CF243AA UK
Abstract:In order to improve the problems of the large number of active components and the complex expansion structure of the traditional multilevel inverter, this paper proposes a multilevel inverter that reduces the number of components and can be modularly expanded. The inverter is composed of a voltage divider capacitor unit, a switched capacitor unit and two half bridges. It uses 1 DC power supply, 4 capacitors, 8 switches and 2 diodes to achieve double voltage gain and a nine-level AC output voltage. Two half-bridges are used in the proposed inverter instead of the back-end H-bridge to convert the output voltage polarity, which can effectively reduce the total voltage stress of the switches. In the modular expansion structure of the proposed inverter, the step-by-step charging method of the capacitors further improves the voltage gain and the output level number. This paper includes the working states, modulation strategy, capacitance analysis, parameter calculation, and topology comparison of the proposed inverter. Finally, the feasibility of the proposed inverter and the correctness of the theoretical analysis are verified through simulation and experiment.
王要强, 李娜, 赵朝阳, 陈天锦, 梁军. 一种新型多电平逆变器及其模块化分析[J]. 电工技术学报, 2022, 37(18): 4676-4687.
Wang Yaoqiang, Li Na, Zhao Zhaoyang, Chen Tianjin, Liang Jun. A New Type of Multilevel Inverter and Its Modular Analysis. Transactions of China Electrotechnical Society, 2022, 37(18): 4676-4687.
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