The cell voltage and power performance of a microbial fuel cell utilizing waste carbohydrate as a fuel, that does not use a mediator, catalysts or a proton exchange membrane, is reported. Tests were conducted with the cell operated essentially as a battery using manure sludge as fuel and with oxygen reduction in an aqueous solution. Using carbon cloth as anode and cathode, the cell produced pea...

A coordinated-control scheme with a compensator for a fossil-fuel power plant is presented. The compensator is intended to reduce the interaction effects among the control loops to ease control during wide-range normal operating conditions. Placed between the controllers and the power plant, the compensator only introduces compensation factors among the control signals; preserving the direct co...

This paper presents an autonomous hybrid generation system consisting of wind turbine generators (WTG), a diesel engine generator (DEG), fuel cell (FC), a battery energy storage system (BESS) and an aqua electrolyzer (AE). The generated hydrogen by an aqua electrolyzer is used as fuel for a fuel cell. The power system frequency deviates for the sudden changes in load and generation. The output ...

The dynamic models for the fuel cell power and the configuration of the fuel cell distributed generation system are shown in this paper. Due to nonlinear characteristics of fuel cell model, the output voltage of fuel cell varies greatly when the load changes. A novel interface is designed to provide a constant output voltage for charging of the battery bank of the fuel cell distributed generati...

This paper proposes a design of power system control in the hybrid electric vehicle. It adopts the isolated DC/DC power converter as the front-end fuel cell and Lithium-ion battery to supply constant voltage. By micro-controller to detect the hybrid power output, and the low-pressure hydrogen storage temperature, and the adjustment of the power output ratio to provide the energy for loading bal...

anaging power generation assets is a complex and challenging task. From the perspective of a regulated utility, the objective is to satisfy its customers and minimise costs. The focus of other energy service companies operating in a deregulated market is on profit maximisation. Large power companies may hold many assets that include a variety of fossil-fuelled power plants such as coal, gas or ...

The discrete regenerative fuel cell is being developed as a residential power control that synchronizes with a renewables load which fluctuates significantly with the time and weather. The power of proton exchange membrane fuel cells can be scaled-up adjustably to meet the residential power demand. As a result, scale-ups from a basic unit cell with a 25 cm(2) active area create a serpentine flo...

A nonlinear fuel cell system dynamic model that is suitable for control study is presented. The transient phenomena captured in the model include the flow characteristics and inertia dynamics of the compressor, the manifold filling dynamics, and consequently, the reactant partial pressures. Characterization of the Fuel Cell polarization curves based on time varying current, partial oxygen and h...

The gas-steam turbine combined cycle (GTCC) is the preferred power plant type because of its high efficiency and its use of cheap and clean natural gas as fuel. It is also the preferred type in the Arab Gulf countries where it is used as cogeneration power-desalting plant (CPDP). In this chapter, descriptions and analysis of the GTCC components are presented, namely, the gas turbine cycle (comp...