Design and simulation of five level multistring inverter for fuel cell applications

Author

Savitha, B. ; PriyaaGomathi, A. ; Seyezhai, R.

Author_Institution

SSN Coll. of Eng., Chennai, India

fYear

2012

fDate

21-22 March 2012

Firstpage

472

Lastpage

476

Abstract

Fuel cell is an efficient and clean source of electricity. Among the various types of fuel cells, Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC) is preferred due to its less start up time and low cost. In this paper, a five level multi string inverter with converter at front end has been proposed for fuel cell applications. The design of the inverter requires only six switches instead of the conventional eight switches. The electrical model of PEMFC has been studied. The proposed multi-string inverter with fuel cell as the DC source has been simulated in MATLAB Simulink and the results are tabulated. The total harmonic distortion factor has also been tabulated.

Keywords

digital simulation; fuel cell power plants; invertors; mathematics computing; proton exchange membrane fuel cells; DC source; Matlab-Simulink; PEMFC electrical model; five level multistring inverter design; five level multistring inverter simulation; proton exchange membrane fuel cell; switches; total harmonic distortion factor; Inverters; Presses; RNA; Sensors; Silicon; Switches; Water pollution; PEMFC; multi-string inverter;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computing, Electronics and Electrical Technologies (ICCEET), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kumaracoil

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0211-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCEET.2012.6203781

Filename

6203781