What is the best converter for low voltage fuel cell applications- A buck or boost?

IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 962-967

  Nymand, Morten ^a   Tranberg, René ^a   Madsen, Mark E ^a   Madawala, Udaya K ^b   Andersen, Michael A E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOST TOPOLOGY; BUCK TOPOLOGY; BUCK-AND-BOOST CONVERTER; CONVERTER TOPOLOGIES; FUEL CELL APPLICATION; FULL-BRIDGE; LOW VOLTAGES; MEASURED RESULTS; MEASURING EQUIPMENTS; OPERATING CONDITION;

FUEL CELLS; INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 77951609788     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2009.5415048     Document Type: Conference Paper

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