Development of a compact high-power zinc-oxygen battery for a heavyweight torpedo

Author

Koretz, Binyamin ; Naimer, Neal

Author_Institution

Electr. Fuel Ltd., Jerusalem, Israel

fYear

1997

fDate

27 Jul-1 Aug 1997

Firstpage

872

Abstract

Electric Fuel Limited (EFL) is completing the second year of development of a compact, high-power zinc-oxygen battery for heavyweight torpedoes, under subcontract to STN ATLAS Elektronik GmbH of Hamburg, Germany. STN ATLAS is the prime contractor to the German Federal Office for Defence Technology and Procurement (BWB) for a new generation of heavyweight torpedo. The program has consisted thus far of a first phase in which the concept of the zinc-oxygen battery stack was evaluated in small (330 cm² active area) cells, and a second phase in which the cells were scaled up about fourfold to the final full size of the torpedo battery stack. A general schedule of these two phases of the development program is shown

Keywords

electrochemistry; marine systems; oxygen; power supplies to apparatus; primary cells; zinc; Zn-O₂; development programme; discharge performance; heavyweight torpedo; torpedo battery stack; zinc-oxygen battery stack; Anodes; Batteries; Cathodes; Electrodes; Fuels; Gaskets; Job shop scheduling; Procurement; Subcontracting; Zinc oxide;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, 1997. IECEC-97., Proceedings of the 32nd Intersociety

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4515-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IECEC.1997.661883

Filename

661883