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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2011
Ranganathan Gurunathan, Bangalore, IN;
Aisur Gopalakrishnan Vishal Anand, Bangalore, IN;
Ame Ballantine, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Saravanakumar Narayanasamy, Bangalore, IN;
Kodali Venkata Narasimha Rao, Bangalore, IN;
Ranganathan Gurunathan, Bangalore, IN;
Aisur Gopalakrishnan Vishal Anand, Bangalore, IN;
Ame Ballantine, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Saravanakumar Narayanasamy, Bangalore, IN;
Kodali Venkata Narasimha Rao, Bangalore, IN;
BLOOM ENERGY CORPORATION, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method includes controlling multiple networked input-parallel/output-parallel inverters of a fuel cell system as a single inverter assembly by a master controller. A fuel cell system includes a plurality of fuel cell segments, a plurality of DC/DC converters and at least one DC/AC inverter, where an output of each of the plurality of the fuel cell segments is connected to a pair of DC/DC converters, and each of the pair DC/DC converters is connected to an opposite polarity bus being provided to the inverter.