Author(s)

Lijo Jacob Varghese¹, C. Kezi Selva Vijila², I. Jacob Ragland³

¹Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Christian College of Engineering and Technology, Dindigul, Tamil Nadu, India.
²Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Christian College of Engineering and Technology, Dindigul, Tamil Nadu, India.
³Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Noorul Islam University, Kumarakovil, Tamil Nadu, India.

Multilevel inverters have gained much attention for its operation involving applications ranging values of high power rating. This paper proposes a switching topology for asymmetric multilevel inverter utilizing less number of power electronics components. When the number of the output level increases, it requires more switching states and eventually the number of switching components. The increased number of switches results in higher switching losses which may lead to power loss, and reduction of efficiency of the overall conversion system. The salient feature of this proposed topology is that the module can be used as a sub multiple level structure and can be extended for any number of level with minimal increase in the switching components.

Multilevel Inverter, Asymmetrical Inverter, Reduction of Components, Loss Calculation, Total Harmonic Distortion

Varghese, L. , Vijila, C. and Ragland, I. (2016) A New Topology for a Single Phase Multilevel Voltage Source Inverter with Reduced Number of Components. Circuits and Systems, 7, 475-488. doi: 10.4236/cs.2016.74040.