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Five Leg Z-Source Inverter Feeding Two Independent Loads Simultaneously

Abstract

This paper presents control methods for controlling two independent loads simultaneously by using five-leg ZSource Inverter and High-Performance Z-Source Inverter. In recent years, five-leg inverter has been proposed. This inverter can control two three-phase loads independently at a time, this inverter has five legs,each leg consists of two switching devices and total ten switching devices. AandB phases of both loads are connected in each leg respectively whereas C phase of both loads is connected in common leg. In five-leg inverter, C phase of the loads are connected in the common leg, it causes difference from a switching pattern of C phase in two loads. For this reason, the modulation methods of a three leg inverter can’t be used for the fiveleg inverter. Many modulation methods for the five-leg inverter have been proposed, but Voltage Utility Factor is 50% in these methods. This paper proposes a novel structure for Z-source five-leg inverter. First, the construction of five-leg inverter, Z-source five-leg inverter is introduced and then PWM modulation methods for the Z-source five-leg inverter are elaborated. Consequently, it is shown with Z-source one can improve Voltage Utility Factor in five-leg inverter. In the end, the validity of the method is verified by simulations

P. Raja Reddy, B.M.Manjunatha, D.V. Ashok Kumar

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