PEM fuel cell efficiency boosting — Robust MPP tracking

Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell PEMFC is one of the most important power supplies. Extracting the maximum power from the PEMFC in the presence of load and inputs variations, has always attracted the attention of many researchers and many articles have been published on this issue, this paper presents modeling of a PEMFC with DC/DC boost converter. Subsequently, Fuzzy Logic controller FLC is proposed to keep the PEMFC working at its maximum power point MPP. The model and the controller are implemented in the MATLAB and SIMULINK environment and results are discussed.