High-efficiency power conversion for low power fuel cell generation system

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 847-856

  Wai, Rong Jong ^a   Duan, Rou Yong ^b  

^a YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b HUNGKUANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Current source; Fuel cell; Inverter; Power conversion; Proton exchange membrane (PEM); Soft switching; Voltage clamping

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC INDUCTORS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC SWITCHES; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; ELECTRIC WAVEFORMS; FUEL CELLS; HARMONIC DISTORTION; PROTONS;

CURRENT SOURCE; POWER CONVERSION; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE (PEM); SOFT SWITCHING; VOLTAGE CLAMPING;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 22944441921     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2005.850936     Document Type: Article

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