UPS Fuel Cell Based: an innovative back-up system

Author

Alessandro, F. ; Antonucci, V. ; Dusonchet, L. ; Favuzza, S. ; Ferraro, M. ; Graditi, G.

Author_Institution

Univ. di Palermo, Palermo

fYear

2007

fDate

21-23 May 2007

Firstpage

723

Lastpage

729

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to evaluate the technical feasibility and aspects related to the use, in an uninterruptible power supply (UPS), of fuel cells instead of traditional electrochemical batteries. The proposed system, named UPS-FCB (fuel cell based) presents a modular and versatile system configuration; particularly it is possible to integrate it with traditional UPS. Moreover the system features can be modified in terms of power, reliability, back-up time, etc., by changing the power devices. A detailed experimental analysis has been carried out on a passive stand-by UPS integrated with a FCB; experimental results can be easily extended to the other possible system architectures.

Keywords

fuel cells; uninterruptible power supplies; UPS fuel cell; back-up system; electrochemical batteries; power devices; uninterruptible power supply; Batteries; Costs; Energy storage; Feeds; Fuel cells; Fuel storage; Hydrogen storage; Power system protection; Power system reliability; Uninterruptible power systems; Fuel Cell; UPS; back-up; hydrogen;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Clean Electrical Power, 2007. ICCEP '07. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Capri

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0632-3

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0632-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCEP.2007.384292

Filename

4272463