Overview of Power Electronic Converter Topologies Enabling Large-Scale Hydrogen Production via Water Electrolysis

Mengxing Chen; Shih-Feng Chou; Frede Blaabjerg; Pooya Davari

doi:10.3390/app12041906

Overview of Power Electronic Converter Topologies Enabling Large-Scale Hydrogen Production via Water Electrolysis

Mengxing Chen, Shih-Feng Chou, Frede Blaabjerg, Pooya Davari^*

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Abstract

Renewable power-to-hydrogen (P2H) technology is one of the most promising solutions for fulfilling the increasing global demand for hydrogen and to buffer large-scale, fluctuating renewable energies. The high-power, high-current ac/dc converter plays a crucial role in P2H facilities, transforming medium-voltage (MV) ac power to a large dc current to supply hydrogen electrolyzers. This work introduces the general requirements, and overviews several power converter topologies for P2H systems. The performances of different topologies are evaluated and compared from multiple perspectives. Moreover, the future trend of eliminating the line frequency transformer (LFT) is discussed. This work can provide guidance for future designing and implementing of power-electronics-based P2H systems.

Original language	English
Article number	1906
Journal	Applied Sciences
Volume	12
Issue number	4
Pages (from-to)	1-12
Number of pages	12
ISSN	2076-3417
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/app12041906
Publication status	Published - Feb 2022

Keywords

High-Power AC/DC Converter
IGBT
Power-to-hydrogen
Water Electrolysis
Thyristor

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