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R Uthirasamy1, S Vishnu Kumar2, Christo Ananth3
1Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Mahendra Engineering College, Namakkal, 637503, India.
Abstract:
A new fifteen-level stepped DC to AC hybrid converter is proposed for Solar Photovoltaic (SPV) applications. A boost chopper circuit is designed and interfaced with the fifteen-level hybrid converters specific to Electric Vehicles' Brushless DC Motor (BLDC) drive systems. In chopper units, the output of solar panels is regulated and stepped up to obtain the nominal output voltage. In the stepped DC-link hybrid converter configuration, fifteen-level DC-link voltage is achieved by the series-operated DC-link modules with reduced electrical energy compression. From the comprehensive structure, it is anecdotal that the proposed topology has achieved minimum switching and power loss. Elimination of end passive components highlights the merits of the proposed hybrid systems. The reduction of controlled power semiconductor switches and gate-firing circuits has made the system more reliable than other hybrid converters. From the extensive analysis, the experimental setup has reported that 7% reduction in harmonics and a 54% reduction in controlled power switches than the existing fifteen-level converter topologies. Mitigation of power quality issues in the voltage profile of a fifteen-level multilevel hybrid converter is achieved through the implementation of dsPIC digital-controller-based gate triggering circuits.
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