Title :
Bipolar nickel-hydrogen battery development-a program review
Author :
Manzo, Michelle ; Lenhart, Stephen ; Hall, Arnold
Author_Institution :
NASA Lewis Res. Center, Cleveland, OH, USA
Abstract :
An overview of spacecraft power system design trends, focusing on higher power bus voltages and improved energy storage systems, is followed by a discussion of bipolar Ni/H2 battery development efforts. Several 10-cell batteries and on 50-cell battery are described, and performance results are presented. A comparison of individual-pressure-vessel and bipolar Ni/H2 technologies is used to suggest a new direction for bipolar Ni/H2 battery development efforts, toward a large number of passively cooled cells in parallel
Keywords :
hydrogen; nickel; research initiatives; secondary cells; space vehicle power plants; Ni-H2 secondary cells; battery; bipolar cells; bus voltages; development programmes; energy storage systems; performance; spacecraft power system; Aerospace testing; Batteries; Contracts; Costs; NASA; Nickel; Power systems; Space technology; Space vehicles; Voltage;
Conference_Titel :
Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, 1989. IECEC-89., Proceedings of the 24th Intersociety
Conference_Location :
Washington, DC
DOI :
10.1109/IECEC.1989.74385
