Inversores multiníveis obtidos a partir do empilhamento de células de dois níveis.

Abstract

Multilevel inverters are an alternative for both quality and efficiency increase of inverter fed systems. Depending on the voltage level c.c. of the bus applied to the inverter, the usage of multilevel topologies is inevitable. Those topologies reduce the voltage over each of those devices. However, a higher quantity of switches increases the inverters final cost, and requires more complex approaches for control and modulation. Also, few inherent aspects of the multilevel inverters including: reduction of the common-mode voltage, fault tolerance and unbalance capacitors voltages, among other, need to be investigated. In this scenario, new multilevel topologies have great interest, also with new and simplified modulation techniques. In this work we study multilevel inverter with different operational principles, formed by formed by stacking two levels cells. The first one, consist of a single-phase inverter with a four level bridge. This inverter is composed of a two level leg and a three level leg, presenting the same blocking voltage for all the switches. In the second topology, every central point of each of the leg is connected into a common single point, with the extern leg over the intern one, a structure poorly studied. This topology needs bidirectional switches for a correct well function. A study of the 2/3 level inverter is done, in which a signicant redution of the operation numbers is a chieved. Finally, a hybrid symmetricmultilevel inverter is studied based on both half-bridge and ANPC topologies, in which two changes in the topology are proposed alongside with some changes in the switching standard. This provides a better control in the capacitors voltage balance, and reduces the amount of sources c.c. used by them.