Energy efficiency and fault tolerance comparison of DC/DC converters topologies for fuel cell electric vehicles

2013 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo: Components, Systems, and Power Electronics - From Technology to Business and Public Policy, ITEC 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Guilbert, Damien ^a   Gaillard, Arnaud ^a   N'Diaye, Abdoul ^a   Djerdir, Abdesslem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE BELFORT MONTBÉLIARD   (France)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Electric Vehicles; FC current ripple; Fuel cell; Interleaved DC DC converters

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS; BOOST TOPOLOGY; CONTINUITY OF SERVICES; CURRENT RIPPLES; DC VOLTAGE; DC-BUS VOLTAGES; FUEL CELL ELECTRIC VEHICLE; POWER SEMICONDUCTORS;

DC-DC CONVERTERS; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ELECTRIC VEHICLES; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; EXHIBITIONS; POWER ELECTRONICS; TOPOLOGY;

FUEL CELLS;

EID: 84883671177     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITEC.2013.6574513     Document Type: Conference Paper

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