Simulation of a Three-phase Nine-level

Inverter for Induction Motor Drive

Under the guidance of

Asst. prof.

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 Contents
 Introduction
 Literature Review
 Cascade H-Bridge five level inverter
 Single-phase Multi string Nine level inverter
 Three-phase Multi string Nine level inverter
 Conclusion
 References
 Introduction
 The ever-increasing energy consumption, fossil
fuels soaring costs and worsening global
environment have created a booming interest in
the development of environmentally friendly
Distributedenergy resources(DERs)

 Most DERs usually supply a dc voltage that

varies in a wide range according to various load
conditions
 Literature Review

 A dc/ac power processing interface is required

 Multilevel inverters can be efficiently used in the

distributed energy systems.
Advantages of Multilevel inverters

 Nearly sinusoidal output-voltage waveforms

 Better harmonic profile

 Switching losses that are lower than those of

conventional two-level inverters

 A smaller filter size

 Types of Multilevel inverters
 Diode clamped inverter

 Flying capacitor inverter

 Cascaded H-bridge inverter

 Among these three, cascaded H-bridge requires

least number of components
 Cascaded H-bridge inverter
• 2n+1 voltage levels , 4n switches ,where n is
number of H bridges HVDC Line
• 5 voltage levels, 8 switches
• 7 voltage levels , 12 switches

• 9 voltage levels , 16 switches

S1 S3
Vdc
R Phase
S4 S2

S5 S7 Vdc

S8 S6
 Disadvantages of Cascaded H-bridge
inverters
• To increase the number of output voltage levels, we
should increase number of H bridges.

• Hence switching devices are increased which

makes a multilevel inverter more complicated.
 Proposed inverter

 Multilevel inverter with small number of switching

devices.

 The number of gate driving circuits are reduced,

hence size is reduced.

 The harmonics of the output voltage waveform are

also reduced.
Configuration of multi-string inverter for
various DERs application:
 Five-level inverter topology of CCHB
inverter

Switches ON Voltage level

Sa1,Sa4,Sb1,andSb4 2Vdc
Sa1,Sa4,Sb2,andSb4 Vdc
Sa2,Sa4,Sb2and Sb4 0
Sa3, Sa2,Sb3andSb2 -2Vdc
Sa3,Sa2,Sb2andSb4 -Vdc
Five-level inverter topology of CHB
inverter
Cascade H-bridge inverter output
voltage waveform
THD Of five Level Output Voltage
without Filter
THD Of five Level Output Voltage with
Filter
Single-phase nine-level inverter
topology
Switching Combinations
Switches ON Voltage level
S5,S6,S7 andS8 0
S5,S2,S3 andS4 Vdc
S5,S6,S7 andS4 2Vdc

S1,S2,S7 andS4 3Vdc

S5,S2,S7 andS4 4Vdc

S1,S6,S7andS8 -Vdc

S1,S6,S3 andS4 -2Vdc

S5,S6,S3 andS8 -3Vdc

 S1,S6,S3 andS8 -4Vdc

Nine level inverter output voltage

waveform
Three-phase Nine-level inverter With R-
load
R-phase[sub system]
Y-phase[sub system1]
B-phase[sub system2]
Three-phase Nine-level inverter output
voltage waveform
THD Of Nine Level Output Voltage
without Filter
THD Of Nine Level Output Voltage
with Filter
Three-phase Nine-level inverter With
Induction Motor Drive
Output Wave Form Of Stator
current
Output Wave Form Of Speed
Output Wave Form Of Torque
 Conclusion

 A single-phase and three-phase nine level inverter output

voltage has been analyzed by means of a simulation.

 Simulation results shows the effectiveness of the

proposed converter.
 Finally a three phase model of the proposed converter
with Induction Motor Drive implemented in Mat
lab/Simulink.

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