The Notch Filter Design for Mitigation Current Ripple of Fuel cell-PCS

• DOI: 10.7836/kses.2012.32.6.106
• Publication Date: 2013-03-05T12:03:54Z
• Authors: Seung-Min Kim; Bong-Hee Park; Ju-Yeop Choi; Ick Choy; Sang-Chul Lee; Dong-Ha Lee
• Keywords: 02 engineering and technology; 0210 nano-technology; 7. Clean energy

As a fuel cell converts the chemical energy of the fuel cell into electrical energy by electrochemical reaction, the fuel cell system is uniquely integrated technique including fuel processor, fuel cell stack, power conditioning system. The residential fuel cell-PCS(Power Conditioning System) needs to convert efficiently the DC current produced by the fuel cell into AC current using single-phase DC-AC inverter. A single-phase DC-AC inverter has naturally low frequency ripple which is twice frequency of the output current. This low frequency(120Hz) ripple reduces the efficiency of the fuel cell. This paper presents notch filter with IP voltage controller to reject specific 120Hz current ripple in single-phase inverter. The notch filter is designed that suppress just only specific frequency component and no phase delay. Finally, the proposed notch filter design method has been verified with computer simulation and experimentation.