The development of simple renewable energy system : type II

Abstract

Renewable energy is one of the energy sources that can overcome global energy crisis problem. The renewable energy sources consist of sun, wind, tides, waves, geothermal, biomass and a biogas. PEMFC is one of the renewable energy source using biogas. It involved an electrochemical reaction between hydrogen and oxygen gases to produce electricity. Many researches had been conducted to make PEMFC as a source of the future energy. For this study, the development of the renewable energy system using PEMFC is mainly focused. The renewable energy system consists of renewable energy source, the power conditioner and the load. The renewable energy source used in this study was PEMFC. The power conditioner used was the inverter to converted Direct current (DC) into Alternate current (AC). The load can be any devices that used an AC current. The development of the system starts from the experimental stage using a PEMFC kit. Then it proceeds into simulation stage using Proteus software and the Breadboarding stage. The result of this study produce an AC wave form that can be used to operate an AC type devices, these will make a PEMFC as another source of energy and thus reduce the dependency of energy demands in this world.