| Title |
Study on Power Conditioning System for Fuel Cell Power Generation with 2-Stage DC-DC Converter and Inverter |
| Authors |
주영아(Ju, Young-Ah) ; 오은태(Oh, Eun-Tae) ; 한병문(Han, Byung-Moon) ; 이준영(Lee, Jun-Young) |
| Keywords |
Renewable Energy Source ; Fuel Cell Power Generation ; PEM(Proton Exchange Membrane) Fuel Cell ; LLC Resonant DC-DC Converter |
| Abstract |
This paper proposes a new power conditioning system for the fuel cell power generation, which consists of a LLC resonant DC-DC converter and 3-phase inverter. The LLC resonant converter boosts the fuel cell voltage of 26-48V up to 400V, using the hard-switching boost converter and the high-frequency ZVS half-bridge converter. The operation of proposed power conditioning system was verified through simulations with PSCAD/EMTDC software. The feasibility of hardware implementation was verified through experimental works with a laboratory prototype, which was built with 1.2kW PEM fuel-cell stack, 1kW LLC resonant converter, and 3kW PWM inverter. The proposed system can be utilized to commercialize a real interconnection system for the fuel-cell power generation. |