ABSTRACT

In this Project, basic cell (BC) of a novel switched capacitor converter (SCC) has been proposed first. After that, the generalized structure of proposed SCC is developed. The developed SCC requires reduced number of switches, drivers, diodes, capacitors and lower number of conducting switches in current flow paths and capacitor charging paths as compared to the other recently developed SCCs. A switched capacitor multilevel inverter (SCMLI) utilizing 2 number of generalized SCCs is developed next. Further, cascaded extension of proposed SCMLI is realized and analyzed for symmetric and asymmetric dc source configurations. A detail analysis of optimum selection of capacitance for switched capacitors of 13 level SCMLI is presented. An extensive comparison study shows that the proposed SCMLI requires lower number of components as compared to other SCMLIs. Further, the proposed structure has minimum cost function per level per boosting factor as compared to the other SCMLIs.