Comparison of Controllers used in Fuel Cell for Power Conditioning

Authors

  • Jaswant Singh , S. P. Singh , K. S. Verma , Arif Iqbal , Yudhishthir Pandey , Dilip Kumar

Abstract

— Fuel Cell (FC) is one of the most promising alternative sources of energy as it is pollution free and
gives better power density than other renewable sources. As it does not depend on the weather conditions it is
very useful source of energy. In this paper, performance of evaluation of different controllers used in
mathematical expression and modelling of 500W BCS Stack is developed with some important characteristics.
Power conditioning unit is connected to get useful voltage from FC. Power conditioning unit consists of Boost
converter to raise the DC voltage of FC, and inverter is used to convert DC voltage into AC voltage. Two
types of control schemes are employed to control the duty cycle of boost converter, which are PI controller
and Fuzzy logic controller. Outputs of both controllers are comparatively investigated with important results

Published

2020-02-28

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