A Comprehensive Review of Reduced Device Count Multilevel Inverters for PV Systems

Abdul Jabbar Memon, Mukhtiar Ahmed Mahar, Abdul Sattar Larik and Muhammad Mujtaba Shaikh ()
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Abdul Jabbar Memon: Department of Electrical Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro 76062, Pakistan
Mukhtiar Ahmed Mahar: Department of Electrical Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro 76062, Pakistan
Abdul Sattar Larik: Department of Electrical Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro 76062, Pakistan
Muhammad Mujtaba Shaikh: Department of Basic Sciences and Related Studies, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro 76062, Pakistan

Energies, 2023, vol. 16, issue 15, 1-29

Abstract: This article presents a comprehensive review of reduced device count multilevel inverter (RDC MLI) topologies for PV systems. Multilevel inverters are widely used in medium-voltage and high-power applications such as wireless power transform applications, flexible AC transmission (FACT), active filters, AC motor drives, high-voltage DC transmission (HVDC), and renewable energy sources due to their high modularity and high-power quality output. Multilevel inverters have the ability to diminish the harmonics content in the output voltage by applying various modulation techniques. The literature in this field showed that the high-power quality and high modularity of the output demand an undeniable need for multilevel inverter topology. Research in this field has identified various multilevel inverter topologies, each possessing their own merits and demerits. The ubiquitous availability of multilevel inverter topologies illustrates the complexity of their accurate selection. To avoid such complexity, this review shows the state of the art of various reduced device count (RDC) multilevel inverter (MLI) topologies. Details of the various RDC MLIs, along with their comparisons, are provided in this paper. This review will be an important reference tool for future work on RDC MLI for photovoltaic (PV) systems.

Keywords: multilevel inverters; reduced device count; maximum power point tracking (MPPT); photovoltaic (pv) system (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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