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http://dx.doi.org/10.6113/JPE.2011.11.2.202

Real-time and Power Hardware-in-the-loop Simulation of PEM Fuel Cell Stack System  

Jung, Jee-Hoon (Smart Grid Research Division, Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute)
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Journal of Power Electronics / v.11, no.2, 2011 , pp. 202-210 More about this Journal
Abstract
Polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell is one of the popular renewable energy sources and widely used in commercial medium power areas from portable electronic devices to electric vehicles. In addition, the increased integration of the PEM fuel cell with power electronics, dynamic loads, and control systems requires accurate electrical models and simulation methods to emulate their electrical behaviors. Advancement in parallel computation techniques, various real-time simulation tools, and smart power hardware have allowed the prototyping of novel apparatus to be investigated in a virtual system under a wide range of realistic conditions repeatedly, safely, and economically. This paper builds up advancements of optimized model constructions for a fuel cell stack system on a real-time simulator in the view points of improving dynamic model accuracy and boosting computation speed. In addition, several considerations for a power hardware-in-the-loop (PHIL) simulation are provided to electrically emulate the PEM fuel cell stack system with power facilities. The effectiveness of the proposed PHIL simulation method developed on Opal RT's RT-Lab Matlab/Simulink based real-time engineering simulator and a programmable power supply is verified using experimental results of the proposed PHIL simulation system with a Ballard Nexa fuel cell stack.
Keywords
PEM fuel cell; Stack system; Power hardware-in-the-loop; Dynamic model; Real-time simulation;
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