Recent Trends on Grid-tied Multilevel Inverters for Renewable Energy Systems
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A1: Smart Grids and Microgrids".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2022) | Viewed by 11413
Special Issue Editors
Interests: power electronics; photovoltaic system; inverter; DC-DC power converter; solar energy; renewable energy; microgrid
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The integration of renewable energy sources (solar and wind) with the grid plays an important role in energy utilization. It is difficult to utilize electricity from renewable energy sources directly or to inject renewable energy power into the grid. Hence, the system needs power electronic converters as an interface between renewable energy sources and grid/load. Recently, multilevel inverters (MLI) have become more suitable for interfacing. As compared with two-level inverters, MLIs have multiple advantages such as lower electromagnetic interference, less harmonic distortion, lower voltage stress on semiconductor elements, and higher efficiency. The recent trends in MLIs mainly focus on a reduction in the switch count/DC supplies to make the compact design and utilization of advanced pulse width modulation techniques for producing quality output voltage waveform.
This Special Issue is intended to motivate further research and the development of multilevel inverters, refreshing the state of the art, pointing out the benefits, and investigating novel modulation schemes for grid-connected renewable energy applications. The topics of interest for publication include but are not limited to:
- Multilevel inverters for renewable energy applications (photovoltaic, wind energy, and fuel-cells).
- Multilevel converters for high-power electric vehicle battery chargers.
- Fault-tolerant multilevel converters.
- Multilevel inverter (MLI) with reduced devices, for low/medium- and high-voltage application.
- Advanced pulse width modulation techniques for MLI.
- Developing MLI topology with self-balancing capability.
- Control of a grid-tied multilevel inverter interfacing.
Dr. Prabaharan Nataraj
Dr. Mohamed Salem
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- multilevel inverters for distributed generation (solar, wind, etc)
- pulse-width-modulated multilevel inverters
- multiphase multilevel inverter topologies and modulation strategies
- grid-tied multilevel inverters
- the self-balancing capacitor in the multilevel inverter
- multilevel matrix converters
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