ABSTRACT : |
An Electrolyser is part of a renewable energy system (RES) and generates hydrogen from water electrolysis that is used in fuel cells. A static DC-DC converter is required to couple the Electrolyser to the system DC bus. This paper presents the design of three soft-switched high-frequency transformer isolated DC-DC converters for this application based on the given specifications. It is shown that LCL- type series resonant converter with capacitive output filter is suitable for this application. Detailed theoretical and simulation results are presented. Due to the wide variation in input voltage and load current, no converter can maintain zero-voltage switching for the complete operating range. The experimental results are compared with the simulation results and they are almost similar. |
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