A study of autonomous operation of home power supply network using fuel cell and electric double layer capacitor

In this paper, a home power supply system for collective houses consisting of fuel cell (FC) network and electric double layer capacitor (EDLC) is proposed. EDLC is required to operate the whole system in autonomous mode. The FCs for the collective houses are linked together. The network linking of the fuel cells contributes to get higher reliability of the system, and to reduce the capacity of inverter and EDLC by smoothing pulsive and intermittent loads. Load patterns including pulsive intermittent loads were modeled for simulations based on an actually measured data. The feasibility of this concept was confirmed by simulations using software MATLAB/Simulink.