A ripple-mitigating and energy-efficient fuel cell power-conditioning system

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1437-1452

  Mazumder, Sudip K ^a   Burra, Rajni K ^b   Acharya, Kaustuva ^a  

^a 1120 Science and Engineering Offices   (United States)

^b General Electric Company India   (India)

Author keywords

Active power filter (APF); Conditioner; Cycloconverter; Efficiency; Fuel cell; Grid; Inverter; Modulation; Multilevel; Photovoltaics; Power conditioning system (PCS); Ripple reduction; Zero ripple filter (ZRF)

Indexed keywords

POWER CONDITIONING SYSTEM; SINE WAVE MODULATION TECHNIQUE; ZERO-RIPPLE BOOST CONVERTER; ZERO-RIPPLE FILTER;

ACTIVE FILTERS; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

FUEL CELLS;

EID: 34547130573     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2007.900598     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. C. Haynes and W. J. Wepfer, "Characterizing heat transfer within a commercial-grade tubular solid oxide fuel cell for enhanced thermal management," Int. J. Hydrogen Energy, vol. 26, pp. 369-379.
2. [Online]. Available: www.nfcrc.uci.edu/UFFC/PowerElectronics/PDFs/ 24_%20Gemmen.pdf
3. S. H. Pyke, A. J. Burnett, and R. T. Leah, "Systems development for planar SOFC based power plant," ETSU F/01/00195/REP, DTI/Pub UNR 02/ 868, Contractor: ALSTOM Research and Technology Centre.
4. J. Lai and C. Liu, "Low frequency current ripple reduction technique with active control in a fuel cell power system with inverter load," in Proc. IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conf., Jul. 2005, pp. 2905-2911.
5. H. Xu, E. Qiao, X. Guo, X. Wen, and L. Kong, "Analysis and design of high power interleaved boost converters for fuel cell distributed generation system," in IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conf., Jul. 2005, pp. 140-145.
6. W. Choi, P. N. Enjeti, and J. W. Howze, "Development of an equivalent circuit model of a fuel cell to evaluate the effects of inverter ripple current," in Proc. IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conf. and Expo. 2004, pp. 355-361.
7. Y. R. Novaes and I. Barbi, "Low frequency ripple current elimination in fuel cell systems," Fuel Cell Seminar 2003 [Online]. Available: http://www.energychallenge.org/FuelCellSeminar.pdf
8. G. K. Andersen, C. Klumpner, S. B. Kjaer, and F. Blaabjerg, "A new green power inverter for fuel cells," in Proc. IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conf., 2002, pp. 727-733.
9. R. Gopinath, S. S. Kim, and P. Enjeti, "Development of a low cost fuel cell inverter with DSP control," in Proc. IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conf., 2002, pp. 1256-1262.
10. G. W. Pradeep, H. Mohammad, and P. Famouri, "High efficiency low cost inverter system for fuel cell application," Fuel Cell Seminar 2003 [Online]. Available: http://www.energychallenge.org/FuelCellSeminar.pdf
11. J. Mazumdar, I. Batarseh, and N. Kutkut, "High frequency low cost dc-ac inverter design with fuel cell source for home applications," in Proc. IEEE Industry Applications Conf., 2002, pp. 789-794.
12. A. M. Tuckey and J. N. Krase, "A low-cost inverter for domestic fuel cell applications," in Proc. IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conf., 2002, pp. 339-346.
13. P. T. Krein and R. Balog, "Low cost inverter suitable for medium-power fuel cell sources," in IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conf., 2002, pp. 321-326.
14. H. Ertl, J. W. Kolar, and F. C. Zach, "A novel multicell DC-AC converter for applications in renewable energy systems," IEEE Trans. Ind. Elect., pp. 1048-1057, 2002.
15. J. Wang and F. Z. Peng, "A new low cost inverter system for 5 kW fuel cell," Fuel Cell Seminar 2003 [Online]. Available: http://www.energychallenge.org/FuelCellSeminar.pdf
16. T. P. Bohn and R. D. Lorenz, "A low-cost inverter for domestic fuel cell applications," Fuel Cell Seminar 2003 [Online]. Available: http://www.energychallenge.org/FuelCellSeminar.pdf
17. T. Kawabata, H. Komji, and K. Sashida, "High frequency link dc/ac converter with PWM cycloconverter," in IEEE Industrial Application Society Conf., 1990, pp. 1119-1124.
18. S. Deng and H. Mao, "A new control scheme for high-frequency link inverter design," in IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conf. Expo., 2003, pp. 512-517.
19. R. K. Burra, S. K. Mazumder, and R. Huang, "Alow-cost fuel-cell (FC) power electronic system (PCS) for residential loads," in Proc. IEEE Int. Telecommunications Energy Conf., 2004, pp. 468-478.
20. S. K. Mazumder, "Fuel cell power conditioner for stationary power system: Towards optimal design from reliability, efficiency, and cost standpoint, Keynote Lecture," presented at the Proc. ASME 3rd Int. Conf. on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology, Yipsilanti, MI, May 23-25, 2005, FUELCELL2005-74178.
21. F. Canales, P. Barbosa, and F. C. Lee, "A zero-voltage and zero-current switching three-level DC/DC converter," IEEE Trans. Power Elect., vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 898-904, 2002.
22. [Online]. Available: www.llnl.gov/str/Mitlit.html
23. J. Wang, F. Z. Peng, J. Anderson, A. Joseph, and R. Buffenbarger, "Low cost fuel cell inverter system for residential power generation," in Proc. IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conf. Expo., 2004, pp. 367-373.
24. W. Rong-Jong and D. Rou-Yong, "High efficiency power conversion for low power fuel cell generation system," IEEE Trans. Power Elect., vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 847-856, 2005.
25. S. Pradhan, S. K. Mazumder, J. Hartvigsen, and M. Hollist, "Effects of electrical feedbacks on planar solid-oxide fuel cell," ASME J. Fuel Cell Sci. Tech., vol. 4, pp. 154-166, May 2007.
26. J. R. Pinhiero and I. Barbi, "The three-level ZVS-PWM DC-to-DC converter," IEEE Trans. Power Elect., vol. 8, pp. 486-492, 1993.
27. G. Bloom and R. Sevens, Modern DC-to-DC Switchmode Power Converter Circuits. New York: Van Nostrand-Reinhold, 1985.
28. [Online]. Available: http://www.netl.doe.gov/seca/industry.html
29. S. C. Singhal and K. Kendall, High-Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells: Fundamentals, Design and Applications. Burlington, MA: Elsevier Science., 2003.
30. Fuel-Cell Handbook, 7th ed. Morgantown, West Virginia: EG&G Technical Services Inc., Department of Energy (DOE), 2004.
31. R. Gemmen, "Analysis for the effect of inverter ripple current on fuel cell operating condition," J. Fluids Eng., vol. 125, no. 3, pp. 576-585, 2003.