Electric propulsion-fleet readiness at affordable costs

Author

Orndorff, Catherine Marsh ; Egan, Christopher J.

Author_Institution

Div. Newport, Naval Undersea Warfare Centre, Newport, RI, USA

fYear

1996

fDate

9-12 Jan 1996

Firstpage

57

Lastpage

60

Abstract

The successful development and demonstration of the Al-AgO primary battery system dramatically demonstrated the viability of electric power plants for torpedo propulsion. Present efforts are focused on the development and demonstration of very low cost, quiet, high performance, safe, environmentally compatible, rechargeable batteries for heavyweight and lightweight torpedoes and tactical-sized unmanned underwater vehicles. Electric power plants consisting of a rechargeable battery and a high reliability motor must be affordable to own and operate and enable turn around without teardown for today´s fleet assets

Keywords

electric propulsion; military equipment; motor drives; power supplies to apparatus; reliability; secondary cells; Al-AgO; US Navy fleet; drive motors; electric power plants; electric torpedo propulsion; military power supply; rechargeable batteries; reliability; secondary battery; unmanned underwater vehicles; Batteries; Costs; Marine technology; Power generation; Power system reliability; Propulsion; Silver; Surveillance; Vehicles; Weapons;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Battery Conference on Applications and Advances, 1996., Eleventh Annual

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2994-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BCAA.1996.484970

Filename

484970