Control method of multiple power converter to reduce deterioration of fuel cells

Fuel cell hybrid electric vehicle (FCHEV) is attractive because it has longer driving range than electric vehicle and does not emit greenhouse effect gas. However, there is a problem that the lifetime of fuel cell becomes shorter by degradation progresses under the conditions such as load variation...

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Published in2014 IEEE International Electric Vehicle Conference (IEVC) pp. 1 - 7
Main Authors Hoshi, Hideyuki, Aisaka, Yuto, Katayama, Noboru, Hoshi, Nobukazu
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.12.2014
Subjects
Choppers (circuits)
degradation
Delays
electric double layer capacitor
Fuel cell
Fuel cells
Gears
Inductance
Inverters
low pass filter (LPF)
multiple power converter
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Summary:Fuel cell hybrid electric vehicle (FCHEV) is attractive because it has longer driving range than electric vehicle and does not emit greenhouse effect gas. However, there is a problem that the lifetime of fuel cell becomes shorter by degradation progresses under the conditions such as load variation and the operation in considerable lower or higher power than rated power. In order to solve this problem, this paper proposes a control method of a multiple power converter which is configured by a boost converter connected to a fuel cell stack and a bidirectional converter connected to an electric double layer capacitor (EDLC) bank. In addition, the effectiveness of the proposed control method was verified by experiments.
DOI:10.1109/IEVC.2014.7056149