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

IEEJ Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 128, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  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

CURRENT-FED CONVERTER; FUEL CELL STACK; FUEL CELL VOLTAGE; FUEL-CELL INVERTERS; HF TRANSFORMERS; HIGH FREQUENCY; INDUCTOR CURRENTS; LOAD VARIATIONS; OPERATING RANGES; SWITCHED DC-DC CONVERTER; UTILITY INTERFACE; UTILITY LINES; VOLTAGE VARIATION; VOLTAGE-FED CONVERTER;

CELLS; CONTROL SYSTEM STABILITY; DC-DC CONVERTERS; FUEL CELLS; SOFT SWITCHING; ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

DC TRANSFORMERS;

EID: 72049107227     PISSN: 09136339     EISSN: 13488163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1541/ieejias.128.450     Document Type: Article

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