Title :
Investigating the performance of a fuel cell based distributed generation system
Author :
Ghareeb, W.T. ; Bendary, F.M. ; Saied, E.M. ; Hegazy, Y.G.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Benha Univ., Cairo, Egypt
Abstract :
This paper presents the design and simulation study of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell based distributed generation system. The topology chosen for the simulation consists of fuel cell power plant model, pulse width-modulation DC/DC boost converter and sinusoidal pulse width-modulation two-level inverter followed by an LC filter. Advanced control strategy is used for the overall system; its main objective is to regulate the output voltage from the DC/DC converter and to adjust the output voltage from the DC/AC inverter at different loading conditions. Simulation analysis was done using MATLAB/SIMULINK platform. Simulation results are given to show the overall system performance under heavy loading conditions, sudden increase in load and under unbalanced loading condition.
Keywords :
DC-DC power convertors; PWM invertors; PWM power convertors; distributed power generation; fuel cell power plants; power generation control; proton exchange membrane fuel cells; voltage control; DC-AC inverter; LC filter; distributed generation system; heavy loading condition; proton exchange membrane fuel cell; pulse width modulation DC-DC boost converter; sinusoidal pulse width modulation two level inverter; unbalanced loading condition; voltage regulation; Frequency modulation; Fuel cells; Inverters; Loading; Pulse width modulation; Voltage control; DC/AC inverter; DC/DC converter; Fuel Cell based Distributed Generation (FCDG); PEM Fuel Cell (PEMFC); PI controller; PWM technique; different loading conditions;
Conference_Titel :
Energy Conference and Exhibition (EnergyCon), 2010 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Manama
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9378-4
DOI :
10.1109/ENERGYCON.2010.5771726
