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A control method for operation of a power conditioner system based on fuel cell/supercapacitor

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This paper proposes a digital control scheme to control operation of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell module of 1.2 kW and a supercapacitor through a DC/DC hybrid converter. A FC is proposed as a primary source of energy along with a SC as an auxiliary source of energy. A control scheme is proposed for control of the proposed system. An experimental setup of the proposed system is implemented in the laboratory, and several scenarios have been defined for tests to verify that the proposed system achieves an excellent output voltage regulation and SC voltage control, under disturbances from FC voltage, load voltage and other perturbations described in results analysis.

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  1. Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica, Instituto Tecnólogico de Orizaba (ITO), 94320, Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico

    Juan C. Trujillo Caballero

  2. Centro Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Tecnológico (CENIDET), 62490, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico

    Jaime Arau Roffiel

  3. División de estudios de Posgrado e Investigación, Instituto Tecnológico de Orizaba (ITO), 94320, Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico

    Miguel A. López Mariño

  4. Escuela de Ingeniería y ciencias, Tecnológico de Monterrey, 94500, Córdoba, Veracruz, Mexico

    Oscar R. Morgado Lievana

  5. ESTIA Institute of Technology, ESTIA, 64210, Bidart, France

    Edris Pouresmaeil & Ionel Vechiu

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Trujillo Caballero, J.C., Roffiel, J.A., López Mariño, M.A. et al. A control method for operation of a power conditioner system based on fuel cell/supercapacitor. Electr Eng 100, 857–863 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00202-017-0550-2

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