Renewable (REW) / Fuel Cell (FC) Hybrid Power System with mitigation of the REW variability by the FC fuel flow control

A new Energy Management Strategy is proposed for Hybrid Power System based on Renewable Energy Sources and Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell system used as backup source. The Energy Management Strategy uses a Load Following control loop of needed energy on DC bus (Pload -PRES) and an optimization control loop to improve the fuel economy based on Global Extremum Seeking algorithm. The performance of proposed strategy is compared with that obtained with the Static Feed-Forward strategy using different scenarios for power flow on DC bus (variable renewable power profile and constant or variable load demand).

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