High-efficiency fuel-cell power inverter with soft-switching resonant technique

IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 485-492

  Wai, Rong Jong ^a   Duan, Rou Yong ^b,c   Lee, Jeng Dao ^a   Liu, Li Wei ^a  

^a YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHING YUN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c HUNGKUANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Fuel cell; Proton exchange membrane; Pulse width modulation technique; Resonant inverter; Soft switching

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FUEL CELLS; INDUCTANCE; ION EXCHANGE MEMBRANES; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; RESONANT CIRCUITS; SWITCHING NETWORKS;

FUEL CELL POWER INVERTER; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE; RESONANT INVERTER; SINEWAVE VOLTAGE; SOFT SWITCHING RESONANT TECHNIQUE;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 20544447169     PISSN: 08858969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEC.2004.832092     Document Type: Article

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