PROJECT TITLE

A New Three Phase Seven-Level Inverter With Cascaded H-Bridge

Topology

A Project Report
Submitted
in the partial fulfillment of the requirements for
the award of the degree of
BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY
in

ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING

by
M.D. KALEEM PASHA [B14EE064]
SK. UMAR PASHA [B14EE086]
M. ANUSHA [B14EE091]
B. ANITHA [B14EE107]

Under the Guidance of

P. NAGARJUNA REDDY
Assistant professor, EEE Dept.

Estd. 1980

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING

KAKATIYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE - WARANGAL
(An AUTONOMOUS Institute under Kakatiya University - Warangal)
2017- 2018
 DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING
KAKATIYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE -
WARANGAL
(An AUTONOMOUS Institute under Kakatiya University - Warangal)

Estd. 1980

CERTIFICATE

This is to certify that this is the bonafide record of the Project work entitled “A

New Three Phase Seven-Level Inverter With Cascaded H-Bridge Topology ”

carried out by M.D. KALEEM PASHA (B14EE064), SK. UMAR PASHA (B14EE086), M.

ANUSHA (B14EE091), B. ANITHA (B14EE107) students of IV/IV B.Tech. Electrical &

Electronics Engineering in partial fulfillment for the award of the degree of Bachelor of

Technology of Kakatiya University.

Mr. P. NAGARJUNA REDDY Prof. V. RAMAIAH

Assistant Professor., EEE Dept. HOD, EEE Dept.
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We express our whole hearted gratitude to our Director Dr. Y.Manohar Garu, and Principal
Dr. P.Venkateshwar Rao, of Kakatiya Institute of Technology and Science for providing the
conductive environment for carrying through our academic schedules and projects with ease.

We also offer our profuse thanks and express humble reverence to Sri V.Ramaiah garu,
Professor and Head of Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at KITS Warangal.

Words fail as we wish to express our profound gratitude for the extremely pragmatic guidance
rendered to us Sri P.Nagarjuna Reddy sir for his valuable suggestions and guidance all
through the completion of the project.

We would like to express our sincere thanks to all Faculty Members of Department of
Electrical and Electronics Engineering for their cooperation and encouragement.

We pay respects and love to our parents for their encouragement throughout our career. Last but
not the least we express whole hearted thanks to our friends for their cooperation and endless
support.

Sincerely

Mr. P. NAGARJUNA REDDY M.D. Kaleem Pasha (B14EE064)

Assistant Professor, EEE Dept. SK. Umar Pasha (B14EE086)
M. Anusha (B14EE091)
B. Anitha (B14EE107)
 ABSTRACT

There are many limitations in extracting power from renewable energy resources.

To minimize the power demand and scarcity we have to improve the power extracting

methods. Multilevel inverter is used to extract power from solar cells. It synthesizes the

desired ac output waveform from several dc sources.

Multilevel inverters have changed the face of medium- and high-voltage drives. The

most popular topologies of multilevel converters are the neutral point-clamped inverter

(NPC), the flying capacitor inverter (FC), and the cascaded H-bridge (CHB) inverter.

Each one of these inverters has its own merits and demerits.

The main advantage of this topology is reduction in the number of switches.

Another important feature of this topology is that if any H-bridge fails, it can be by

passed and the configuration can still operate as a three-level inverter at its full power

rating. This feature improves the reliability of the circuit.

The proposed topology is achieved by SPWM (Sinusoidal Pulse Width Modulation)

technique for the Gating signal for each switch Simulation work is done using the

MATLAB software and experimental results have been presented to validate the

theory.
 TABLE OF CONTENTS
ABSTRACT i
TABLE OF CONTENTS ii
LIST OF TABLES iii
LIST OF FIGURES iii

CHAPTER NAME PAGE

1. INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................1
1.1 NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED INVERTER ...................................................................3
1.2 FLYING CAPACITOR INVERTER: ...............................................................................5
1.3 CASCADED H-BRIDGE INVERTER: ............................................................................6
2. LITERATURE REVIEW ...........................................................................................................9
3. MATHEMATICAL MODELLING .........................................................................................15
4. PROPSED MODEL .................................................................................................................20
4.1 THEORITICAL ANALYSIS ..........................................................................................20
4.1.1 PULSE WIDTH MODULATION ...................................................................20
4.1.2 TYPES OF PWM TECHNIQUE .....................................................................20
4.1.3 SINUSOIDAL PULSE WIDTH MODULATION (SPWM) ...........................21
4.2 FOUR QUADRANT SWITCH .......................................................................................22
4.3 PROPOSED CIRCUIT ....................................................................................................23
4.4 MATHEMATICAL MODELLING ................................................................................25
5. COMPARISION TABLE ........................................................................................................26
6. SIMULATION CIRCUITS ......................................................................................................27
6.1 MAIN CIRCUIT..............................................................................................................27
6.2 SUB CIRCUIT ................................................................................................................28
7. WAVEFORMS .............................................................................................................................30
7.1 THREE PHASE AC OUTPUT .......................................................................................30
7.2 SINE PWM WAVEFORMS: ..........................................................................................30
7.3 DC INPUT AND SINGLE PHASE OUTPUT: ...............................................................31
7.4 SINGLE PHASE CURRENT AND VOLTAGE WAVEFORMS ..................................31
8. RESULTS .....................................................................................................................................32
9. CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................34
10. REFERENCES ............................................................................................................................35
 LIST OF TABLES
TABLE
TABLE NAME PAGE NO
NO
Various voltage levels and capacitor states based on
1 18
switching sates

2 List of switches that conduct at given voltage levels. 25

3 List of Voltages each switch operates on 25

Comparison Between NPC,FC,CHB, And Proposed

4 26
Configuration

LIST OF FIGURES
FIGURE
FIGURE NAME PAGE NO
NO
Existing Three-Phase Power circuit formed by the
1 connection of a three-phase flying capacitor inverter with 15
h-bridges in series

Switch transitions and current path for the redundant states

of VDC /4 for a phase. (a) Current path for switch state of
2 19
(0,0,0,1), (b) Current path for switch state of (0,1,1,0). (c)
Current path for switch state of (1,0,1,0)

Switch transitions and current path for the redundant states

3 of VDC /2 for a phase. (a) Current path for switch state of 19
(1,0,0,0). (b) Current path for switch state of (0,1,0,0)

4 Generation Of Sinusoidal Pulse Width Modulation 21

5 Conceptual graph of four quadrant (bi polar)operation 22

6 Three ways to realize a four quadrant switch 23

Proposed Three Phase model circuit obtained by cascaded

7 23
H bridge