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Design and Investigation of Solar PV Fed Single-Source Voltage-Lift Multilevel Inverter Using Intelligent Controllers

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The demand for sustainable energy has increased significantly over the years due to the rapid depletion of fossil fuels and also affect the greenhouse. Hence, compared with other Renewable Energy (RE) systems, it is highly preferred for solar photovoltaic device that must be extremely suitable for most of the sun irradiation regions. The proposed research work investigates a solar PV fed single phase Symmetric Voltage-Lift Inverter (SV-LI). The proposed inverter structure operates with symmetric model possibly for 7- level, 15- level, 21- level, 25- level, 35- level, and 45-levels of the output voltage. But, this article presented symmetric single phase inverter that can be obtained from suggested fifteen level structure by using different operating load conditions. The suggested structure can produce medium output voltages without using any extra filter, multiple power switching, or auxiliary H-bridge circuit. The objective of the research work is achieved with reduced number of power electronic switches. Later from an application point of view, the proposed SV-LI is connected to the R and RL load. The performance of multilevel inverter is improved by using different intelligent techniques such as Fuzzy Logic (FL)-based controller design, Fuzzy-Proportional Integral (F-PI)-based controller design, MPP-Fuzzy based controller design and Artificial Intelligent Techniques approach for analysis with MATLAB/Simulink platform. The development of SV-LI operating different load connected system is analyzed with improvement of output voltage, reactive power, and minimized harmonics level.

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Abbreviations

η:

Efficiency

V :

Voltage

I :

Current

W:

Watts

V 0 :

Output Voltage

I 0 :

Output Current

V in :

Input Voltage

I in :

Input Current

kWin :

Kilowatt Velocity –ω

V mp :

Maximum peak voltage

R pm :

Revolution per minute

T:

Shaft torque

Hz:

Frequency

V oc :

Open circuit voltage

I sc :

Short circuit current

bhp:

Brake horse power

Pw:

Power loss

P in :

Power input

H:

Head

Q:

Flow rate

ρ:

Density of fluid handled

g:

Gravitational Constant

K:

Duty Cycle

mH:

Milli Henry

μF:

Micro Fraud

Ω:

Ohm

H:

Henry

m:

Meter

α:

Firing angle

I ph :

Photo generated current

I sat :

Diode saturation current

R p :

Parallel resistance

R s :

Series resistance

S-PV:

Solar photovoltaic

SV-LI:

Symmertic voltage—Lift Inverter

GA:

Genetic algorithm

FA:

Firefly algorithm

PSO:

Particle swarm optimization

MPP:

Maximum power point

P&O:

Perturb & Observe

FPGA:

Field program gate array

MLI:

Multilevel inverter

RL:

Resistive load

PV:

Photovoltaic

DC:

Direct current

AC:

Alternating current

Nser:

Number of series module

Npar:

Number of parallel module

F.F:

Fill Factor

COS:

Change-Over switch

MI:

Modulation index

SPM-TS:

Singe pole multi-through switch

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Albert, J.R. Design and Investigation of Solar PV Fed Single-Source Voltage-Lift Multilevel Inverter Using Intelligent Controllers. J Control Autom Electr Syst 33, 1537–1562 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40313-021-00892-w

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