Abstrakt

Five-Level Full-Bridge Single-Phase Grid Connected Converter for Renewable Distributed Systems

S. Yogesh, K. Guna prasad, S. Ramesh, R. Ramesh

A single-phase grid-connected converter is usually adopted in low-power renewable systems. This paper deals with a novel five-level converter topology that follows this development.. The proposed converter architecture is based on a full-bridge topology with two additional power switches and two diodes connected to the midpoint of the dc link. Since the two added levels are attained by the discharge of the two capacitors of the dc link, the midpoint voltage is balanced and obtained with a specific pulse width modulation (PWM) strategy. This solution is designed for renewable energy systems, where unity power factor operations are generally required. Never the less, a variation of the proposed topology which allows four-quadrant operations