Control of Fuel Cell Power System

Year 2016, Volume: 6 Issue: 3, 1259 - 1265, 05.11.2016

Ayşe Kocalmış Bilhan , Caisheng Wang

Abstract

In recent years, it is getting
attention for renewable energy sources such as Fuel Cell (FC), batteries,
ultracapacitors or photovoltaic panels (PV) for distributed power generation
systems (DG) or electrical vehicles. This paper proposes a DC/DC converter and
DC/AC inverter scheme to combine the Fuel Cell Stack (FC). The power system
consist of a FC stack, a DC/DC converter, inverter and load. A FC mostly could
not produce necessary output voltage, the DC/DC boost converter is used for
obtaining the desired output voltage. The inverter is used for many
applications such as electrical vehicles (EV) and distributed generation
systems (DG). In this paper, sinusoidal pulse modulation technique and space
vector pulse width modulation technique have been simulated and compared for
electrical vehicles applications.

Keywords

Converters, Fuel Cells, Electrical Vehicles

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