Effects of battery buffering on the post-load-transient performance of a PSOFC

IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 457-466

  Mazumder, Sudip K ^a   Pradhan, Sanjaya K ^a   Hartvigsen, Joseph ^b   von Spakovsky, Michael R ^c   Rancruel, Diego F ^d  

^a 1120 Science and Engineering Offices   (United States)

^b CERAMATEC INC   (United States)

^c State University   (United States)

^d General Electric Power System   (United States)

Author keywords

Balance of plant subsystem (BOPS); Distributed generation (DG); Energy buffering; Load transient; Mitigation; Planar solid oxide fuel cell (PSOFC); Power conditioning system (PCS); Power electronics

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION; ELECTRODES; SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELLS (SOFC);

ENERGY BUFFERING; LOAD TRANSIENT; POWER CONDITIONING SYSTEM; POWER ELECTRONICS SUBSYSTEM;

POWER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 34249804494     PISSN: 08858969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEC.2006.876420     Document Type: Article

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