Title :
Some reliability considerations of various networks of sodium/sulfur batteries
Author :
Weaver, Robert D. ; McKubre, Michael C H ; Symons, Philip C. ; Tanzella, Francis L.
Author_Institution :
SRI Int., Menlo Park, CA, USA
Abstract :
Studies of the impact on battery reliability as the Weibull characteristic life and the shape factor vary are reviewed. The life of batteries that incorporate switches that can remove failed cells from the active battery network is studied using Monte Carlo methodology with Weibull statistical distributions. Results for two load-leveling battery networks and for two electric vehicle batteries are presented
Keywords :
reliability; secondary cells; sodium; sulphur; Monte Carlo methodology; Na-S secondary cells; Weibull characteristic life; battery reliability; electric vehicle batteries; load-leveling battery networks; shape factor; Batteries; Chemistry; Costs; Electric vehicles; Monte Carlo methods; Reliability; Shape; Statistical distributions; Switches; Voltage;
Conference_Titel :
Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, 1989. IECEC-89., Proceedings of the 24th Intersociety
Conference_Location :
Washington, DC
DOI :
10.1109/IECEC.1989.74645
