DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF MODULAR MULTILEVEL INVERTER FOR SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS

Authors

  • Mande Pratiksha Jaysingrao Dept. Of Electrical Shiv Nagar VidyaPrasarakMandals College Of Engineering Malegaon(BK) Baramati,India
  • Kate Prashant Kantilal Dept. OfElectrical Shiv Nagar VidyaPrasarakMandals College Of Engineering Malegaon(BK) Baramati,India
  • Hingane Sagar Chandrakant Dept. Of Electrical Shiv Nagar VidyaPrasarakMandals College Of Engineering Malegaon(BK) Baramati,India

Keywords:

Modular Multilevel Converter, PVsystem, Solar Cells, Matlab/ simulink

Abstract

In this paper, we introduces a modular multilevel converter  fed from solar cell which is used to reduce the number of semiconductor Switches. MMC intends design in both control and power circuits to provide corresponding output voltage levels by appropriate switching sequences. Hence to obtain a 15-level converter, the conventional method requires 28 switches and in binary mode 12 switches are needed. In trinary mode with the same 12 switches, 27 levels can be obtained whereas in Modular Multilevel  Converter only 7 switches are employed to achieve 15 levels.

This  converter can be used to integrate the Photovoltaic system into Grid, with satisfying the grid requirements such as frequency,phase angle and amplitude of the Grid voltage. Fifteen level proposed Modular Multilevel Converter is simulated using Matlab/Simulink environment and the corresponding results are presented in this paper.

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15-04-2017

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Mande Pratiksha Jaysingrao, Kate Prashant Kantilal, & Hingane Sagar Chandrakant. (2017). DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF MODULAR MULTILEVEL INVERTER FOR SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS . International Education and Research Journal (IERJ), 3(4). Retrieved from https://ierj.in/journal/index.php/ierj/article/view/783

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Vol. 3 No. 4 (2017): APRIL ISSUE, INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH JOURNAL

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