Economic Evaluation of Grid-Connected Fuel-Cell Systems

Nelson, David B.; Gerez, V.

doi:10.1109/tec.2005.847969

Cited by 26 publications

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“…(1 -0: 1 ) X4 + (1 -0:2) X5 -X3 X l = C (5) where, X = [X l ,X2,X3,X4,X5] T = [vb,vse,il,ife,ise] T is the state vector. Here, Vb is the bus voltage, voltage and current of SC are Vse and ise respectively.…”

Section: DC Bus and Loadmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…With the turn of the century majority of the research is focussed on clean and economical energy resources with fuel cell (FC) being the most prominent renewable energy source [5]. Modelling, analysis and synthesis of control laws for fuel cell systems is at the forefront of research for incorporating FC systems in applications such as hybrid electric vehicle, smart grids etc.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Absolute stability of fuel cell-super capacitor hybrid power source using Lure Lyapunov formulation for load variations

Mejari¹,

Kazi²,

Mane³

et al. 2015

2015 International Conference on Industrial Instrumentation and Control (ICIC)

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Fuel Cells have emerged as one the most efficient energy conversion devices which convert chemical energy into electricity. It is a common practice to use supercapacitor or battery with a fuel cell to compensate for a high instantaneous power requirement during transients in applications such as hybrid electric vehicle, smart grids etc. This paper presents a non-linear controller design method for a fuel cell-supercapacitor hybrid structure. We identify the Lure form of the dynamic model of fuel cell -supercapacitor hybrid power source. A class of control laws is proposed to ensure the absolute stability of the system. The feedback control law satisfies the necessary and sufficient conditions for stability which are established using a Lure type Lyapunov function. This method offers more degrees of freedom in choosing controller parameters hence providing more flexibility in controller design. The performance of the proposed control scheme is tested via simulations.

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Section: DC Bus and Loadmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Absolute stability of fuel cell-super capacitor hybrid power source using Lure Lyapunov formulation for load variations

Mejari¹,

Kazi²,

Mane³

et al. 2015

2015 International Conference on Industrial Instrumentation and Control (ICIC)

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“…We assume that the fuel cell works in a fixed operation point, so that the output power of the FC (P FC (t)) can be obtained from (3) [7].…”

Section: Ii3 Fuel Cell (Fc)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Optimal sizing of a hybrid renewable system

Sánchez

Ramirez

Arriaga

2010

2010 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology

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Sizing of an electric power generation system requires an analysis of the investment, maintenance, and operation costs. In the case of a generation system that uses renewable sources the sizing it is more complex with regard to a conventional system, due to the randomness of the renewable resources, and to the even high costs of wind generators and photovoltaic modules. This paper presents the optimal sizing of a generation system wind-photovoltaic-fuel cell such that demand of an isolated residential load is met. The function objective is constituted by the costs of the system, and the solution method employed is based on evolutionary computation technique called Particle Swarm Optimizer (PSO). The aim of this work is to minimize the total cost of the system such that demand is met. In order to compare the performance of PSO with other method, the sizing of the renewable generation system is made it also by the heuristic method called Differential Evolution.

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“…The power conditioner is also used for the grid connection of the FC. An electrical power-generating system that uses FC as the primary source of electricity generation and is intended to operate synchronously, and in parallel with the electric utility network is a gridconnected FC system [57], [58]. Such systems may also include storage devices and other generating sources and may operate on site loads independent of the utility network during outages.…”

Section: Fc Power Conditioningmentioning

confidence: 99%