9th Annual Battery Conference on Advances and Applications

Author

Oman, H.

Author_Institution

19211 Normandy Park Drive, SW, Seattle, WA, USA

Volume

9

Issue

4

fYear

1994

fDate

4/1/1994 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

25

Lastpage

31

Abstract

The developments in batteries reported at the 8th Annual Battery Conference on Advances and Applications, are discussed. It was sponsored by the electrical engineering department of California state university, long beach, CA, with IEEE-AESS cooperation. Previous well-funded battery research had been directed toward getting low weight in spacecraft batteries, which had to be boosted into orbit with expensive rockets. Ni-H/sub 2/ batteries, even though costly, won the race. Their demonstrated life, like 30,000 charge-discharge cycles, gives an earth-orbiting satellite decades of usable life. Other types of batteries discussed are: aircraft batteries; electric vehicle batteries; Ni-Cd cells; Zn-Br batteries; industrial Pb-acid batteries; rechargeability; computer controlled charging; and small rechargeable and primary batteries.<>

Keywords

electric vehicles; secondary cells; space vehicle power plants; Ni-Cd; Ni-Cd battery; Ni-H/sub 2/; Ni-H/sub 2/ batteries; Pb; Pb-acid battery; Zn-Br; Zn-Br battery; aircraft batteries; battery research; charge-discharge cycles; computer controlled charging; electric car; low weight; rechargeability; satellite; small rechargeable batteries; spacecraft batteries;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8985

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/62.277750

Filename

277750