Multilevel inverter technology has emerged as a very important alternative in the field of medium and high power industrial drive applications. The emergence of multilevel inverters has been increasing since three decades. These new types of converters are suitable for high voltage and high power application due to their ability to synthesize waveforms with better harmonic spectrum. Several multilevel converter topologies have been developed; i) diode clamped, ii) flying capacitors, and iii) cascaded or H-bridge. Cascade Multilevel Inverter (CMI) is one of the productive topology from multilevel family. By increasing the number of output voltage levels in multilevel inverter the Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) can be minimized. This project proposes a new topology of 21 level asymmetric cascaded multilevel inverter with 11 unidirectional switches and 3 diodes and 4 DC voltages sources. Several Pulse Width Modulation techniques are available, among them Level shifting SPWM techniques such as PO, POD and Space Vector PWM are used and comparison is shown on the basis of THDs obtained. MATLAB/ SIMULINK software is used for simulation

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Single Phase 21 Level Asymmetric Cascaded
Multilevel Inverter With Reduced Number Of
Switches And Dc Sources
ABSTRACT:
Multilevel inverter technology has emerged as a very important alternative in the field
of medium and high power industrial drive applications. The emergence of multilevel
inverters has been increasing since three decades. These new types of converters are
suitable for high voltage and high power application due to their ability to synthesize
waveforms with better harmonic spectrum. Several multilevel converter topologies have
been developed; i) diode clamped, ii) flying capacitors, and iii) cascaded or H-bridge.
Cascade Multilevel Inverter (CMI) is one of the productive topology from multilevel
family. By increasing the number of output voltage levels in multilevel inverter the Total
Harmonic Distortion (THD) can be minimized. This project proposes a new topology of
21 level asymmetric cascaded multilevel inverter with 11 unidirectional switches and 3
diodes and 4 DC voltages sources. Several Pulse Width Modulation techniques are
available, among them Level shifting SPWM techniques such as PO, POD and Space
Vector PWM are used and comparison is shown on the basis of THDs obtained.
MATLAB/ SIMULINK software is used for simulation
SOFTWARE: MATLAB/SIMULINK

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BLOCK DIAGRAM:
Fig.1. Basic Block Diagram of Proposed Multilevel Inverter
CIRCUIT DIAGRAM:
Fig. 2. Proposed topology

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EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS:
Fig.3. Simulation result of 21 level multilevel inverter using PD PWM Fig. 4. Simulation result of 21 level
multilevel inverter using POD PWM
Fig. 5. Simulation result of 21 level multilevel inverter Fig. .6. Simulation result of Pulses of

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using SVPWM Switches in PD PWM
Fig. 7.. Simulation result of Pulses of Switches in POD PWM
CONCLUSION:
In this project, a new topology for 21 levels is proposed with reduced number of switches and
DC sources. The Proposed circuit is validated on MATLAB/Simulink platform. The
simulation of the 21 level asymmetric cascaded multilevel inverter is successfully done using
Space vector, Phase disposition and Phase Opposition disposition pulse width modulation
techniques. Thus, this new circuit will require lesser hardware space, lesser cost; also the
complexity of the circuit will reduce. From the FFT analysis, it is found that PD PWM and
POD PWM techniques give least THD. It is observed that even after the reduction in switches

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and sources, the desired output is obtained.
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