Comparative study of maximum power point tracking techniques for fuel cell powered electric vehicle

Abstract

Abstract Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell System (FCS) based power generation is considered for powering electric vehicle in this paper. PEMFCS delivers a fresh and best substitute to the conservative vestige fuel-based methods which is the green future. Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) method is essential to elicit utmost accessible power from FCS. Perturb and Observe (P&O) and Incremental Conductance (INC) method is implemented as MPPT technique. In the this work, Brush Less DC (BLDC) motor is connected to load, fed by a Fuel Cell System (FCS) through Boost Converter (BC). The efficient MPPT technique is observed using MATLAB/Simulink.