Modeling, control and simulation of an autonomous wind turbine/photovoltaic/fuel cell/ultra-capacitor hybrid power system

O. C. Onar, M. Uzunoglu, M. S. Alam

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Abstract

This paper focuses on the combination of wind turbine (WT), photovoltaic (PV), fuel cell (FC) and ultra-capacitor (UC) systems for grid-independent applications. The dynamic behavior of the proposed hybrid system is tested under various wind speed, solar radiation and load demand conditions. The developed model and its control strategy exhibit excellent performance for the simulation of a complete day. In the simulation, the solar radiation and power demand data are based on real world measurements, while the wind speed data are quasi-real because it is simulated based on special wind speed generation algorithms.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1273-1283
Number of pages11
JournalJournal of Power Sources
Volume185
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 1 2008
Externally publishedYes

Funding

This work was supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy under Grant DE-FG02-05CH11295.

FundersFunder number
U.S. Department of EnergyDE-FG02-05CH11295

    Keywords

    • Dynamic model
    • Fuel cell
    • Hybrid power generation
    • Photovoltaic
    • Ultra-capacitor
    • Wind power

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