Abstract :
The purpose of this paper is to aid mission planners and design engineers in choosing the best available power system to satisfy the power requirements for a particular mission. It provides an overview of electric power supplies suitable for remote applications. Particularly, emphasis is placed on power supplies for missions requiring low average power and long life. Included are radioisotope power generators, sealed chemical batteries, seawater batteries, transmission cables, fuel cells , gas-fired thermoelectric generators , solar batteries and wind generators. This data will permit the user to quickly identify the power system, in the existing inventory, which will satisfy the minimum mission requirements or that which can be most economically modified to meet these requirements. In addition, the power supply category which best lends itself to the design and development of a new power system in easily identified.
Keywords :
marine power systems; design engineers; electric power supplies; fuel cells; gas-fired thermoelectric generators; mission planners; power source selection; power system; radioisotope power generators; remote applications; remote ocean-oriented applications; sealed chemical batteries; seawater batteries; solar batteries; transmission cables; wind generators; Batteries; Design engineering; Oceans; Power engineering and energy; Power generation; Power supplies; Power systems; Radioactive materials; Solar power generation; Wind energy generation;
