A Novel Switched-Capacitor Boost Multilevel Inverter for PV Applications

Nowadays, voltage boosting capability with less part count has become the key feature of recently developed MLI topologies. In this work, a novel topology with boost ability, and reduced number of components is proposed. Capacitors used in the proposed structure possess self-balancing ability and the works competently under any inductive-resistive loading conditions. The blocking voltage of proposed circuit is with in the limits of source voltage even with the dual boost. Sinusoidal pulse width modulation switching strategy technique is employed to get gating signals. Simulation using MATLAB is carried-out and hardware tests are conducted with the available components to assess the performance of proposed inverter. Further, the proposed circuit is compared with switched-capacitor (SC) based MLIs in terms of number of switches, and standing voltage to highlight the potential merits.