Development of A 3 kW fuel cell generation system with an active fuel cell simulator: topology, control, and design

Author

Lee, Tae-Won ; Lee, Byoung-kuk ; Jang, Su-Jin ; Kim, Sung-Ho ; Won, Chung-Yuen

Author_Institution

Dept. of Information & Commun. Eng., SungKyunKwan Univ., Suwon, South Korea

Volume

6

fYear

2004

fDate

20-25 June 2004

Firstpage

4743

Abstract

In this paper, a 3 kW fuel cell generation (FCG) system with an active fuel cell (FC) simulator has been proposed. The developed FC simulator generates the actual voltage and current output characteristics of the proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC), so that the overall performance and the dynamics of the proposed system could be effectively examined and tested. In this paper, at first, the system configuration and operational principle of the developed FC simulator has been investigated and the design process of the FCG system is explained in detail. In addition, the validity of the proposed system has been verified by the informative simulation and experimental results.

Keywords

fuel cell power plants; proton exchange membrane fuel cells; 3 kW; active fuel cell simulator; fuel cell generation system; proton exchange membrane fuel cell; Biomembranes; Character generation; DC-DC power converters; Fuel cells; Personal communication networks; Protons; System testing; Thermal management; Topology; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics Specialists Conference, 2004. PESC 04. 2004 IEEE 35th Annual

ISSN

0275-9306

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8399-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PESC.2004.1354837

Filename

1354837