A comparison of soft-switched DC-DC converters for fuel cell to utility interface application

Fourth Power Conversion Conference-NAGOYA, PCC-NAGOYA 2007 - Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 588-594

  Rathore, Akshay K ^a   Bhat, Ashoka K S ^a   Oruganti, Ramesh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Fuel cell; High frequency; Soft switching; Utility interface

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT SIMULATION; FUEL CELLS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); POWER TRANSFORMERS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; UTILITY PROGRAMS;

FUEL CELL INVERTER SYSTEMS; SIMULATION RESULTS; STACK VOLTAGE; UTILITY INTERFACES;

DC-DC CONVERTERS;

EID: 34748835213     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PCCON.2007.373026     Document Type: Conference Paper

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