Design and application of PEM fuel cell-based cascade boost converter
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, 2019 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
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- Basım Tarihi: 2019
- Doi Numarası: 10.1007/s00202-019-00871-0
- Dergi Adı: ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
- Anahtar Kelimeler: PEMFC, Cascade boost, PI controller, Average sliding control, POWER-GENERATION SYSTEM, CONNECTION
- Van Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
This paper presents average sliding current controller (ASCC) for the proton membrane exchange fuel cell (PEMFC)-based DC-DC cascade boost converter under different source and load conditions. PEMFC which has variable voltage and current can be used in a lot of applications with a wide operating range in low temperatures. However, as the PEMFC produces low nonlinear voltage, this lower nonlinear voltage value needs to be increased as a linear voltage with an appropriate power electronics converter. Therefore, this paper proposes DC-DC cascade boost converter which has a higher voltage gain for PEMFC stack. First, a classical PI controller was applied to regulate the output voltage. Then, the current of the PEMFC-based DC-DC cascade boost converter was controlled via ASCC by using output of the voltage controller. After analyzing the dynamic model of the PEMFC-based DC-DC cascade boost converter via MATLAB/Simulink program, the experimental results of the controlled PEMFC-based DC-DC cascade boost converter are observed and discussed.