Modeling and control of solar/fuel cell powered hybrid power systems

Author

Woonki Na ; Bei Gou

Author_Institution

Fresno Electr. & Comput. Eng., California State Univ., Fresno, CA, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

5-7 June 2014

Firstpage

473

Lastpage

478

Abstract

In this paper, a modeling and supervisory control strategy for a solar/fuel cell powered hybrid power system are developed for stand-alone residential applications. Using Ultra-Capacitors(UC) and PhotoVoltaic (PV) panel together with a Fuel Cell(FC) system is a possible solution to provide sufficient power supplies for residential areas. Each model for the FC, PV and UC are developed, and four modes of operations of the proposed hybrid power system are defined for the proposed supervisory control. The proposed hybrid power system is simulated and analyzed based upon the modeling and the supervisory control algorithm in Matlab/Simulink environment.

Keywords

fuel cell power plants; mathematics computing; power system control; proton exchange membrane fuel cells; solar cells; solar power stations; FC system; Matlab-Simulink environment; PV panel; UC system; modeling strategy; photovoltaic panel; power supplies; residential applications; residential areas; solar-fuel cell powered hybrid power system control; supervisory control algorithm; supervisory control strategy; ultracapacitors; Bidirectional control; Fuel cells; Hybrid power systems; Power demand; Supercapacitors; Supervisory control; Modeling; PEM fuel cell; Photovoltaic power; Supervisory Control; Ultracapacitor;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electro/Information Technology (EIT), 2014 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Milwaukee, WI

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EIT.2014.6871810

Filename

6871810