Experimental results and comparison of two structures for a fuel cell-supercapacitor hybrid system

Author

Payman, Alireza ; Zandi, Marjan ; Pierfederici, S. ; Meibody-Tabar, Farid ; Dakyo, Brayima

Author_Institution

Lab. GREAH, Univ. of Le Havre, Le Havre, France

fYear

2012

fDate

11-14 Nov. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

In this paper, implementation results of two different topologies for a fuel cell-supercapacitor (SC) hybrid system are presented. In first topology, the SC bank is connected to a low voltage DC-bus while in the second one, it is connected to a high voltage DC-bus through a DC-DC converter. The energy management is carried out in both the topologies with the same control method based on notion of the flatness. Performance of the hybrid systems is studied in different operating modes. Then, the losses are calculated in each topology where the different semiconductor switches are used in the DC-DC converters. These losses are then utilized to calculate the efficiency of each topology in different operating mode and the simulation results are presented to compare the results.

Keywords

DC-DC power convertors; energy management systems; fuel cells; hybrid power systems; losses; power semiconductor switches; supercapacitors; DC-DC converter; DC-bus; SC bank; energy management system; fuel cell; hybrid system; losses; semiconductor switch; supercapacitor; Control systems; Fuel cells; Insulated gate bipolar transistors; Low voltage; Mathematical model; Semiconductor diodes; Topology; efficiency; flatness; fuel cell; losse; supercapacitor;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Renewable Energy Research and Applications (ICRERA), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nagasaki

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2328-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-2329-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICRERA.2012.6477471

Filename

6477471