{Low cost fuel cell converter system for residential power generation}
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| Title | {Low cost fuel cell converter system for residential power generation} |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2004 |
| Authors | Wang J, Peng FZ, Anderson J, Joseph A, Buffenbarger R |
| Journal | IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics |
| Volume | 19 |
| Pagination | 1315–1322 |
| Abstract | The high installation cost is the major obstacle of the commercialization of the solid oxide fuel cell for distributed power generation. This paper presents a new low cost 10-kW converter system to overcome this obstacle. The proposed system consists of an isolated dc-dc converter to boost the fuel cell voltage to 400 V dc and a pulse-width modulated inverter with filter to convert the dc voltage to two split-phase 120-V ac. The dc-dc converter uses phase shifting to control power flow through a transformer with a metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor full bridge on the low voltage side and a voltage doubler on the high voltage side. One IPM is used to realize the voltage doubler and the dc-ac inverter. Compared to the existing fuel cell converter systems, the proposed circuit has low cost, less component count, smaller size, and reduced dc-dc converter peak current. Simulation and experimental results are demonstrated. |
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