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http://dx.doi.org/10.5207/JIEIE.2007.21.4.061

Low price Fuel Cell Inverter System for 3[KW] Residential Power  

Kwon, Soon-Kurl (Department of Electrical Engineering, Kyungnam University)
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Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers / v.21, no.4, 2007 , pp. 61-72 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study proposed a high efficiency DC-DC converter with a new current doubler rectifier for fuel-cell systems for use with the Nexa(310-0027) PEMFC from the Ballard Co. The proposed high efficiency DC-DC converter for the fuel-cell system generated ZVS by applying partial resonance and using a phase shift PWM control method. Constantly switching frequency, loss of switching, peak current, and peak voltage were reduced by this system. In addition to this system, two inductors were attached to a rectifier circuit allowing it to be able to provide the direct current(DC) and DC voltage safely to a load with reduced ripple components. Also, by using the newly proposed current doubler rectifier, the high frequency DC-DC converter for the fuel cell system was capable of reaching a highest efficiency of 92[%] as compared to 88.3[%] efficiency in previous results, which means that efficiency increased 3.7[%]. The overall results were confirmed by a simulation and laboratory experiment.
Keywords
Current Doubler Rectifier; Phase Shift; DC-DC Converter for Fuel Cell System;
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