Control of PEM fuel cell distributed generation systems

Author

Wang, C. ; Nehrir, M.H. ; Gao, H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Montana State Univ., Bozeman, MT, USA

Volume

21

Issue

2

fYear

2006

fDate

6/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

586

Lastpage

595

Abstract

This paper presents modeling, controller design, and simulation study of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) distributed generation (DG) system. The overall configuration of the PEMFC DG system is given, dynamic models for the PEMFC power plant and its power electronic interfacing are briefly described, and controller design methodologies for the power conditioning units to control the power flow from the fuel cell power plant to the utility grid are presented. A MATLAB/Simulink simulation model is developed for the PEMFC DG system by combining the individual component models and the controllers designed for the power conditioning units. Simulation results are given to show the overall system performance including load-following and fault-handling capability of the system.

Keywords

control system synthesis; distributed power generation; fault diagnosis; fuel cell power plants; load flow control; power distribution control; power generation control; power grids; proton exchange membrane fuel cells; MATLAB simulation; PEM fuel cell distributed generation systems; PEMFC power plant; Simulink simulation; controller design; fault-handling capability; power conditioning units; power electronic interfacing; power flow control; proton exchange membrane fuel cell; utility grid; Biomembranes; Control systems; Distributed control; Fuel cells; Mathematical model; Power conditioning; Power electronics; Power generation; Power system modeling; Protons; Control; PEM fuel cell (PEMFC); distributed generation (DG); interfacing; modeling;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Energy Conversion, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8969

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TEC.2005.860404

Filename

1634608