Renewable energy systems require a large number of converters and inverters. A concise, useful reference for engineering students and professionals, this book describes advanced DC/AC inverters and their applications in wind turbine and solar panel energy systems. It introduces more than 100 topologies of advanced PWM and multilevel inverters originally developed by the authors, including more than 50 new circuits. The authors also explain how to find the best switching angles to obtain the lowest total harmonic distortion (THD) for multilevel inverters.

Introduction. Pulse Width-Modulated DC/AC Inverters. Voltage Source Inverters. Current Source Inverters. Impedance Source Inverters. Quasi-Impedance Source Inverters. Soft-Switching DC/AC Inverters. Multilevel DC/AC Inverters. Trinary Hybrid Multilevel Inverter (THMI). Laddered Multilevel DC/AC Inverters Used in Solar Panel Energy Systems. Super-Lift Converter Multilevel DC/AC Inverters Used in Solar Panel Energy Systems. Switched-Capacitor Multilevel DC/AC Inverters in Solar Panel Energy Systems. Switched Inductor Multilevel DC/AC Inverters Used in Solar Panel Energy Systems. Best Switching Angles to Obtain Lowest THD for Multilevel DC/AC Inverters. Design Examples for Wind Turbine and Solar Panel Energy Systems. Index.

Prof. Fang Lin Luo, Ph.D., is a full professor at AnHui University, China. He also has a joint appointment with Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is a fellow of the Cambridge Philosophical Society and a senior member of the IEEE. He has published 13 books and more than 300 technical papers in the IEEE Transactions and IEE/IET Proceedings as well as in various international conferences. Prof. Luo is currently the associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. He is also the international editor of Advanced Technology of Electrical Engineering and Energy. He was the general Chairman of the first and third IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA 2006 and ICIEA 2008). His research interests include power electronics and DC and AC motor drives with computerized artificial intelligent control (AIC) and digital signal processing (DSP), as well as AC/DC, DC/DC, and AC/AC converters and DC/AC inverters, renewable energy systems, and electrical vehicles.

Dr. Hong Ye, Ph.D., is a research fellow in the School of Biological Sciences at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. She is a member of the IEEE and has coauthored 13 books. Dr. Ye has published more than 80 technical papers in IEEE transactions, IEE/IET proceedings, and other international journals, as well as in various international conferences. Her research interests include power electronics and conversion technologies, signal processing, operations research, and structural biology.