Comparative Study of THD Spectrum on Switched Capacitor Inverter

International Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

© 2017 by SSRG - IJEEE Journal

Volume 4 Issue 6

Year of Publication : 2017

Authors : Bhagyalakshmi P S, Beena M Varghese, Dr. Bos Mathew Jos

10.14445/23488379/IJEEE-V4I6P107

How to Cite?

Bhagyalakshmi P S, Beena M Varghese, Dr. Bos Mathew Jos, "Comparative Study of THD Spectrum on Switched Capacitor Inverter," SSRG International Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, vol. 4,  no. 6, pp. 22-29, 2017. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/23488379/IJEEE-V4I6P107

Abstract:

Multilevel inverter is a commonly used power electronic device because of its characteristics of synthesizing a sinusoidal output on several steps. They give good quality output resulting with lower harmonic distortion in the output. This topology is designed based on Switched Capacitor with charge pump technique and the number of output levels is determined by the number of Switched Capacitor (SC) cells used. A small input voltage can be used to produce a boosted output voltage, by switching the capacitors in series and in parallel by properly switching the power electronic switches. Number of switching devices used in the circuit is reduced as compared to the conventional cascaded multilevel inverter. This work also presents the comparative study of controllers using various Multicarrier Pulse Width Modulation (MCPWM) techniques. Performance factors such as % THD, voltage stress, ripple voltage etc. are measured for different modulation techniques and the results are studied. MCPWM method with the different modulating signal based PWM such as Sinusoidal Multicarrier PWM, Sampling PWM, Rectified Sinusoidal PWM and Trapezoidal PWM has been analyzed. The simulations are done with MATLAB/ SIMULINK software. From the simulation results seven level inverter shows less THD using Alternate Phase Opposition Disposition (APOD) PWM. The control strategy is the key part for the circuit and switching signals are generated with the help of PIC16F877A microcontroller.

Keywords:

Multilevel Inverter, charge Pump, Charging, Single DC Source, Switched Capacitor.

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