Hysteresis Control of Power Conditioning Unit for Fuel Cell Distributed Generation System

Fuel cell is an emerging technology in the field
of renewable energy sources which has the capacity to replace
conventional energy generation sources. Fuel cell utilizes hydrogen
energy to produce electricity. The electricity generated by the fuel
cell can’t be directly used for a specific application as it needs
proper power conditioning. Moreover, the output power fluctuates
with different operating conditions. To get a stable output power
at an economic rate, power conditioning circuit is essential for fuel
cell. This paper implements a two-staged power conditioning unit for
fuel cell based distributed generation using hysteresis current control
technique.





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