Investigation of Modulation Techniques for Multilevel Inverters

Power electronics is the engineering study of converting electrical power from one form to another. At a world-wide average rate of 12 billion kilowatts every hour of every day of every year, more than 40% of the power generated is being reprocessed or recycled through some form of power electronic systems. By 2010, it is expected this will increase up to 80%. A lot of energy is wasted during this power conversion process due to low power conversion efficiency. It is estimated that the power wasted in desktop PCs sold in one year is equivalent to seventeen 500MW power plants! It is therefore very important to improve the efficiency of these power conversion systems. It is estimated that with the widespread use of efficient and cost-effective power electronics technology, the world could see a 35% reduction in energy consumption.

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The author received the Bachelor s degree and Master s degree from the Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India, in 2008 and 2010 respectively. He was the recipient of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Travel grant award for the year 2012. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D degree from the M.N. National Institute of Technology, Allahabad.