Abstract
Applications of fuel cells (FCs) to shipboards have been investigated by many countries worldwide in recent years due to their characteristics of low exhaust emission, high power generation efficiency, low vibration and low noise. Dynamic response is a problem when FCs are installed in ships as power sources because of their electrochemistry characteristics. To make system operation more reliably and stably, a hybrid FCs/energy storage devices ship electric power system is proposed in this paper. Proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) are considered as the power source and a PEMFCs' dynamic behavior based automatic generation control (AGC) model of the ship electric power system is derived. Dynamic responses of the system under different load operating situations are simulated to ensure the performance of the proposed model. Sensitivity analysis is also performed to reduce the effect of input parameter on analysis results.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 79-94 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | Journal of Taiwan Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Publication status | Published - 2009 May 1 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Ocean Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering