Fault-tolerant cascaded H-bridge inverter connected to power grid

Emmanuel DOBSOUMNA 1, Philippe DJONDINE 1, 2, *, Golam GUIDKAYA 1, Frédéric RONWE DJORWE 1, Ali ADAMA HADJA 1 and Dieudonné ISSA 1

1 Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, The University of Ngaoundéré, BP: 454, Ngaoundéré, Cameroon.
2 Department of Physics, Higher Teacher Training College, The University of Bertoua, BP: 652, Bertoua, Cameroon.
 
Research Article
Global Journal of Engineering and Technology Advances, 2024, 21(02), 035–046.
Article DOI: 10.30574/gjeta.2024.21.2.0183
Publication history: 
Received on 20 September 2024; revised on 26 October 2024; accepted on 29 October 2024
 
Abstract: 
Nowadays, the use of inverters is increasingly required in domestic and industrial installations, electrical energy production plants, and in several other areas for the conversion from the DC form to the AC form of the electrical energy such as aviation, maritime and especially in the field of Parallel Active Filtering where it constitutes the capital element for the injection of harmonic compensating energy into the electrical network. In the interest of ensuring its reliability and especially its availability, it is therefore important to design its fault-tolerant model. In this paper, we propose a new model of cascaded H-bridge inverter which could even in the presence of faults, continue to deliver a voltage of value equal to that in normal operating mode. The results of simulations carried out using the Matlab/Simulink software show good performance of the proposed inverter.
 
Keywords: 
Availability of electrical energy; Cascaded H-bridge inverter; Fault tolerant; Reliability
 
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