Title :
Maximum power point tracking for fuel cell in fuel cell/battery hybrid systems
Author :
Dargahi, M. ; Rezanejad, M. ; Rouhi, J. ; Shakeri, M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Noshirvani Tech. Univ. of Babol, Babol
Abstract :
Ability of fuel cell systems to produce power is limited. So it is necessary to force the system to operate in conditions which correspond to fuel cell maximum power point (MPP). Since fuel cell MPP is a unique and fixed point of operation, load power requirements are not taken into account and output voltage will vary with variations of load resistance. In this paper, a new configuration for fuel cell / battery hybrid power system with required controller is proposed and analyzed. This system works in the way that, fuel cell operates in its MPP and output voltage is kept constant. The proposed system is simulated and results show acceptable operation of the system under different conditions.
Keywords :
battery storage plants; fuel cell power plants; hybrid power systems; power generation control; tracking; MPPT; battery hybrid power system; fuel cell hybrid power system; maximum power point tracking; Batteries; Control systems; Equations; Fuel cells; Hybrid power systems; Hydrogen; Power system analysis computing; Power system modeling; Temperature; Voltage control; Battery; Fuel cell; Maximum Power Point Tracking; Output Voltage Regulation; P&O;
Conference_Titel :
Multitopic Conference, 2008. INMIC 2008. IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Karachi
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2823-6
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2824-3
DOI :
10.1109/INMIC.2008.4777703
