A fuel cell power conditioning system with low-frequency ripple-free input current using a control-oriented power pulsation decoupling strategy

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 159-169

  Liu, Xiaohu ^a   Li, Hui ^a   Wang, Zhan ^b  

^a FAMU FSU COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (United States)

^b ABB US Corporate Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Current fed dual half bridge (CF DHB) converter; fuel cell; power decoupling; ripple free input current

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT COMPONENTS; CONTROLLER DESIGNS; CURRENT FED; FUEL CELL POWER CONDITIONING SYSTEM; FUEL CELL SYSTEM; INPUT CURRENT; POWER DECOUPLING; SMALL SIGNAL MODEL;

CONTROLLERS; DC-DC CONVERTERS; ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITORS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

FUEL CELLS;

EID: 84881088515     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2013.2251004     Document Type: Article

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