{"title":"Life cycle testing of a sealed 24-V, 42-Ah nickel-cadmium aircraft battery","authors":"T. Kulin, D. Scoles","doi":"10.4271/971216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4271/971216","url":null,"abstract":"Extensive research has been conducted in the design and manufacture of very long life sealed maintenance free nickel-cadmium aircraft batteries. This study presents data on a 100% depth of discharge (DOD) life test performed on a nominal capacity 42-Ah battery. The purpose of this study is to validate design concepts, determine the life characteristics of the newly designed sealed nickel-cadmium batteries, and develop baseline information on failure rates and mechanisms. The data from this experiment can be used to compare depth of discharge versus battery life with similar tests such as the lower DOD experiments performed on spacecraft batteries. This information is important in the ongoing development of long life batteries and in developing failure models for life prediction.","PeriodicalId":344507,"journal":{"name":"The Twelfth Annual Battery Conference on Applications and Advances","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128235865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prismatic cell lithium-ion battery using lithium manganese oxide","authors":"G. M. Ehrlich, R.M. Hellen, T. Reddy","doi":"10.1109/BCAA.1997.574090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BCAA.1997.574090","url":null,"abstract":"Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries have demonstrated the ability to fulfill the energy storage needs of many new technologies. The most significant drawbacks of currently available technologies, such as LiCoO/sub 2/ based Li-ion cells, is their high cost and significant environmental hazards. Li-ion cells which use a lithium manganese oxide (LiMn/sub 2/O/sub 4/) spinel) based cathode material should be much less costly and safer than LiCoO/sub 2/ based cells. Performance data from prismatic design cells which use a LiMn/sub 2/O/sub 4/ based cathode material is presented and shown to meet many military performance criteria. The most significant drawback of this technology, at the present time, is the short cycle life.","PeriodicalId":344507,"journal":{"name":"The Twelfth Annual Battery Conference on Applications and Advances","volume":"46 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130797926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Zinc and silver migration during rechargeable silver-zinc cell cycling","authors":"H. Lewis, S. Wharton","doi":"10.1109/BCAA.1997.574089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BCAA.1997.574089","url":null,"abstract":"A study has been established to obtain zinc and silver migration rate data on cellulosic separators derived from a variety of cellulose and cellophane sources in silver-zinc alkaline rechargeable cells. The purpose of the study is to utilize the cycle and wet life data which are, in part, a function of the formation of soft and hard shorting in the rechargeable cell set, to designate a \"best\" separator for incorporation into actual production cells by the manufacturing community for silver-zinc rechargeable cells. The recommendations will take the form of minimum separator physical properties which are beneficial to cell performance and long life. This paper discusses the data available to date on silver and zinc migration and their relationship to cell cycling at several stages during the cell life.","PeriodicalId":344507,"journal":{"name":"The Twelfth Annual Battery Conference on Applications and Advances","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125303563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A PSPICE macromodel for lithium-ion batteries","authors":"S. Gold","doi":"10.1109/BCAA.1997.574106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BCAA.1997.574106","url":null,"abstract":"Battery models for simulation are useful for estimating operating life, stability, transient response, and related characteristics in circuits and systems. This paper presents a parametric PSPICE macromodel for simulating lithium-ion batteries. Comparisons of the simulation with experimental data from 1.25 Ah lithium-ion cells are then made.","PeriodicalId":344507,"journal":{"name":"The Twelfth Annual Battery Conference on Applications and Advances","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122275380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. Lim, G. R. Zelter, D. U. Allison, J. Reilly, S. Srinivasan, J. Stockel
{"title":"Studies on hydride-forming alloys as the active material of a metal hydride electrode for a nickel metal hydride cell","authors":"N. Lim, G. R. Zelter, D. U. Allison, J. Reilly, S. Srinivasan, J. Stockel","doi":"10.1109/BCAA.1997.574075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BCAA.1997.574075","url":null,"abstract":"Multi-component AB/sub 5/ hydrides are attractive replacements for the cadmium electrode in nickel-cadmium batteries. The archetype compound of the AB/sub 5/ alloy class is LaNi/sub 5/, but in a typical battery electrode mischmetal is substituted for La and Ni is substituted in part by variety of metals. This paper deals with the effect on cycle life upon the partial substitution of various lanthanides for La and Sn, In, Al, Co, and Mn for Ni. The presence of Ce was shown to enhance cycle life as did Sn in some cases. An electrode of La/sub 0.67/Ce/sub 0.33/B/sub 5/ alloy gave over 3500 cycles (to specific capacity of 200 mAh/g), indicating that it is a very attractive alloy for a practical Ni/MH/sub x/ cell.","PeriodicalId":344507,"journal":{"name":"The Twelfth Annual Battery Conference on Applications and Advances","volume":"118 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123813511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An electronic fuel gauge accuracy study","authors":"D. Stolitzka","doi":"10.1109/BCAA.1997.574105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BCAA.1997.574105","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is prepared for battery cell manufacturers who want to optimize battery pack fuel gauging in light of uncertain user patterns and less-than-ideal cell behavior outside of the laboratory. The idea of coulomb-counting the gain or loss of energy to and from the battery pack is a popular and low-cost method. This technique finds use in nickel-metal hydride (Ni-MH), nickel-cadmium (NiCd), sealed-lead acid (SLA) cells and lithium-ion (Li/sup +/) battery packs. It is critical for battery pack suppliers to understand how well electronic fuel gauges estimate the energy flow through the battery and correct for cell effects, such as, charge efficiency, available capacity and the cell's self-discharge. It is not apparent to a user that a cellular telephone will lose its capacity faster on a hot, summer day than on a freezing, winter day. This information becomes the basis for reporting the portable appliance's fuel tank level to its user. This paper reviews a new portable appliance-the two-way pager-that uses two 450 mAh cells for a power source.","PeriodicalId":344507,"journal":{"name":"The Twelfth Annual Battery Conference on Applications and Advances","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132562416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cold charge nickel hydrogen geosynchronous satellite batteries","authors":"J. C. Hall","doi":"10.1109/BCAA.1997.574121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BCAA.1997.574121","url":null,"abstract":"It has been well recognized that the capacity of nickel hydrogen batteries is improved if the batteries are operated at relatively cool temperatures (/spl sim/0/spl deg/C to 10/spl deg/C). This is somewhat contra-intuitive relative to other batteries and is generally ascribed to the competition between the useful nickel electrode recharge reaction. At Space Systems/Loral we have recognized that the inverse capacity vs. temperature dependency of the nickel hydrogen battery is a result of different kinetic parameters. This in turn leads to the realization that in the absence of other effects the charge capacity of the nickel hydroxide electrode should continue to increase as the temperature in decreased. The narrow conventional ideal temperature range for operation is due to limitations of the discharge kinetics rather than the charge acceptance of the positive electrode. The cold charge concept exploits the difference in charge vs. discharge kinetics and the fixed rates and periods of geosynchronous operation to increase the name plate capacity of IPV Ni/H/sub 2/ by forcing discharge to occur at a higher temperature than charge. In practice battery recharge is completed (/spl sim/90%/spl rarr/100% SOC) under taper charge conditions (C/10/spl rarr/C/100) with a battery temperature /spl sim/-20/spl deg/C. Prior to high rate discharge the temperature of the battery is artificially increased (via the battery heaters) to -10/spl deg/C to 0/spl deg/C. The net result is a 15% increase in practical battery capacity and hence reduction in battery weight.","PeriodicalId":344507,"journal":{"name":"The Twelfth Annual Battery Conference on Applications and Advances","volume":"45 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133818691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development with quasi-bipolar Horizon/sup R/ technology","authors":"W. B. Craven","doi":"10.1109/BCAA.1997.574093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BCAA.1997.574093","url":null,"abstract":"Electrosource Inc. (ELSI) is now in production with an electric vehicle (EV) battery based on fundamental advances in materials design, manufacturing processes and well understood lead-acid electrochemistry. The production 12 V-85 Ah module is rated at 45 Whr/kg, 223 W/kg and 400 C/3 cycles. Production test modules have achieved over 50 Whr/kg and 500 cycles. Chrysler has chosen the Electrosource Horizon Battery for their EV Minivan that will be in production next year. Design flexibility has led to a hybrid electric vehicle battery as well as SLI, UPS and portable power.","PeriodicalId":344507,"journal":{"name":"The Twelfth Annual Battery Conference on Applications and Advances","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124215657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cycle-life improvement study for secondary silver-zinc batteries","authors":"L. Giltner","doi":"10.1109/BCAA.1997.574072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BCAA.1997.574072","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an introductory discussion of the general characteristics and advantages of the silver-zinc, manually activated, rechargeable battery. Cycle-life limitations are discussed and the test results of a cycle-life improvement study, which investigated potential improvements in electrolyte formulation, zinc plate composition and the separation system, completed in 1995, are provided. The results of this study indicate a significant improvement in cycle-life over the baseline design for certain variations in the separator system.","PeriodicalId":344507,"journal":{"name":"The Twelfth Annual Battery Conference on Applications and Advances","volume":"281 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122943483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using high speed pulse as an analysis tool [for secondary batteries]","authors":"J. Zhang, W. J. Canady","doi":"10.1109/BCAA.1997.574087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BCAA.1997.574087","url":null,"abstract":"The advent of high-speed pulse technology in battery and cell test instrumentation has provided researchers with a number of important analytical and modeling tools for battery and cell research. This paper is a survey of some of those procedures.","PeriodicalId":344507,"journal":{"name":"The Twelfth Annual Battery Conference on Applications and Advances","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116308214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}