An Adapted Control Strategy to Minimize DC-Bus Capacitors of a Parallel Fuel Cell/Ultracapacitor Hybrid System

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3843-3852

  Payman, Alireza ^a   Pierfederici, Serge ^a   Meibody Tabar, Farid ^a   Davat, Bernard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

DC DC converter; electrical hybrid system; flatness; fuel cell; minimum capacitor; ultracapacitor

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008030400     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: 19410107     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2009.2030683     Document Type: Article

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