Power electronics of a Real-Time Emulator of PEM Fuel Cell systems

Author

Bojoi, R. ; Tenconi, A. ; Vaschetto, S. ; Colasante, L. ; Delmastro, A.

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Ing. Elettr., Politec. di Torino, Torino, Italy

fYear

2009

fDate

9-11 June 2009

Firstpage

338

Lastpage

343

Abstract

Fuel cells (FC) systems are characterized by high costs and complex auxiliary devices. For this reason, can be useful to have a FC Emulator (FCE) to replace a real FC system during the development of the power converter for the conditioning of the energy generated by the FC. The FCE must be able to reproduce the nonlinear output voltage-current (V-I) characteristic of the FC. The paper presents a 5 kW FCE power converter aimed to be driven by an optimized parametric model of a proton exchange membrane (PEM) FC. Both the FC parametric model and the converter control are implemented with a real-time prototyping system (RT-LAB).

Keywords

fuel cell power plants; power convertors; power electronics; power generation control; proton exchange membrane fuel cells; PEM fuel cell system; nonlinear output voltage-current characteristic; power 5 kW; power converter control; power electronics; proton exchange membrane; real-time emulator; Biomembranes; Character generation; Costs; Fuel cells; Nonlinear control systems; Parametric statistics; Power electronics; Power generation; Protons; Real time systems; Converter; Emulator; Fuel cells; Power; Real-Time;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Clean Electrical Power, 2009 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Capri

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2543-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2544-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCEP.2009.5212034

Filename

5212034