Journal of Power Electronics

The Korean Institute of Power Electronics (전력전자학회)
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A Fuel Cell Generation System with a Fuel Cell Simulator

  • Lee Tae-Won (Dept. of Information & Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University) ;
  • Jang Su-Jin (Dept. of Information & Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University) ;
  • Jang Han-Keun (Dept. of Information & Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University) ;
  • Won Chung-Yuen (Dept. of Information & Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
  • Published : 2005.01.01
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Abstract

A fuel cell (FC) system includes a fuel processor plus subsystems to manage air, water, and thermal energy, and electric power. The overall system is high-priced and needs peripheral devices. In this paper, a FC simulator is designed and constructed with the electrical characteristics of a fuel cell generation (FCG) system, using uses a simple buck converter to overcome these disadvantages. The characteristic voltage and current (V-I) curve for the FC simulator is controlled by a simplified linear function. In addition, to verify FCG system performance and operation, a full-bridge DC/DC converter and a single-phase DC/AC inverter were designed and constructed for FC applications. Close agreement between the simulation and experimental results confirms the validity and usefulness of the proposed FC simulator.

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