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Bidirectional Power Transmission Fuel Cell System for Notebook Battery

노트북 배터리용 양방향 전력전송 연료전지 시스템

  • JOUNG, GYUBUM (Department of Energy Electrical Engineering, Woosuk University)
  • 정규범 (우석대학교 에너지전기공학과)
  • Received : 2017.05.30
  • Accepted : 2017.06.30
  • Published : 2017.06.30

Abstract

In this paper, a fuel cell battery charger system, which is capable of bi-directional power transmission without built in battery, has been designed and fabricated. Performance and states of the notebook battery in bi-directional power transmission using the manufactured system have been tested. Before initializing the fuel cell charging system for 1 minute, the system received 10 W of electric power from notebook battery. Then the fuel cell charging system has been normal charging to notebook battery by 50 W. As a result of the experiment, the state of the notebook battery discharged less than 5% at the initial charging time, but then it has been charged. This results proves bi-directional power transmission in notebook computers increase the availability of fuel cell chargers.

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