Fuel cell/lithium-ion battery hybrid for manportable applications

Author

Jarvis, Louis P. ; Cygan, Peter J. ; Roberts, Marc P.

Author_Institution

CECOM Res. Dev. & Eng. Center, Fort Monmouth, NJ, USA

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

69

Lastpage

72

Abstract

In this work we have demonstrated a hybrid system of a fuel cell and rechargeable battery with pulse power capability. It successfully ran a pulse power load simulation synonymous with military electronics and communications equipment. The hybrid consisted of a 35 W proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) stack in parallel with a Li-ion battery. Two cyclic regimes were utilized. Each consisted of a baseline load for 9 min followed by a higher pulse load for 1 min. One regime consisted of 20 W (baseline)/40 W (pulse) load; whereas, the second was 25 W/50 W. Under both scenarios, the hybrid provided significantly enhanced performance over the individual components tested separately

Keywords

lithium; military communication; military equipment; proton exchange membrane fuel cells; pulsed power supplies; secondary cells; telecommunication power supplies; 1 min; 20 W; 25 W; 35 W; 40 W; 50 W; 9 min; Li-ion battery; PEMFC; cyclic regimes; fuel cell; manportable applications; military communications equipment; military electronics equipment; performance enhancement; proton exchange membrane fuel cell; pulse power capability; pulse power load simulation; rechargeable battery; Batteries; Biomembranes; Communication equipment; Cooling; Fuel cells; Microprocessors; Protons; Temperature; Testing; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Battery Conference on Applications and Advances, 2002. The Seventeenth Annual

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA

ISSN

1089-8182

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7132-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BCAA.2002.986371

Filename

986371