151. Dual-DC-Port Asymmetrical Multilevel Inverters With Reduced Conversion Stages and Enhanced Conversion Efficiency.
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Wu, Hongfei, Zhu, Lei, Yang, Fan, Mu, Tiantian, and Ge, Hongjuan
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ELECTRIC inverters , *ELECTRIC power conversion , *ELECTRIC potential , *DIRECT currents , *ALTERNATING currents - Abstract
A new concept of dual-dc-port asymmetrical multilevel inverter (DP-AMI), which is able to interface a low-voltage dc port, a high-voltage dc port, and an ac port simultaneously using only one topology, is presented in this paper. A systematic method to derive the DP-AMI is proposed. With the proposed DP-AMI, a low-voltage dc source, e.g., photovoltaic (PV) modules or battery, can directly supply power to the ac load within single-stage power conversion. Therefore, in comparison with a traditional two-stage dc/ac power conversion system, the power conversion stages are reduced and the voltage/current stress of the front-end dc/dc converter can be significantly alleviated, which can improve the overall conversion efficiency dramatically. Furthermore, by using the low-voltage dc source as a new voltage level, asymmetrical multiple voltage levels are generated by the proposed DP-AMI, which is beneficial for the reducing switching losses and the size/volume of the output filter. The topology derivation method of the DP-AMIs is presented. The operation principles, modulation schemes, and characteristics of one of the proposed DP-AMIs are analyzed in detail. A 1-kW prototype is built and tested to verify the effectiveness and advantages of the proposed method. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2017
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