Fuel cell connected to grid through inverter

Author

Bhuyan, Kanhu Charan ; Sao, Sumit Kumar ; Mahapatra, KamalaKanta

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., Nat. Inst. of Technol., Rourkela, India

fYear

2012

fDate

16-18 March 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Fuel cell systems are enhancing due to interest to supply electricity in remote areas as well as distributed power generation especially during the peak loads. Fuel cell generation becomes popular due to cleanliness, portability and suitability for electricity and heat generation. This paper presents the modeling of a fuel cell power plant (FCPP) in terms of fuel cell, dc-dc converter, dc-ac inverter and power system parameters, to interface with loads or grid. The control strategy of this model is hysteresis current controller (HCC). HCC is used to generate inverter switch pulse for the ac grid voltage. MATLAB/SIMULINK is used to validate the modeling and simulation of fuel cell generation and power conditioning unit. The proposed control strategy makes the distribution generation system work properly when the voltage disturbance occurs in the distribution system.

Keywords

distributed power generation; electricity supply industry; fuel cells; invertors; distributed power generation; electricity supply; fuel cell power plant; fuel cell systems; grid through inverter; hysteresis current controller; Electrodes; Fuel cells; Fuels; Inverters; Load modeling; Mathematical model; Voltage control; FCPP; Fuel cell(FC); HCC and Distribution System;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering and Systems (SCES), 2012 Students Conference on

Conference_Location

Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0456-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SCES.2012.6199107

Filename

6199107