Advanced Non-Primary Power Systems
Abstract
A significant portion of operating time for stationary military ground vehicles is spent with their main engines idling to generate electrical power which consumes considerable fuel and creates greater vulnerability for signature detection. Auxiliary power units (APUs) can produce the required power more efficiently than the main engines at reduced acoustic and thermal signatures. This effort will research, investigate, conduct experiments and validate APU technologies such as modular/scalable engine based APUs, fuel cell reformer systems to convert JP8 to hydrogen, sulfur tolerant JP8 fuel cell APUs and novel engine based APUs for military ground vehicle and unmanned ground systems. This effort will also determine inputs for APU interface control documents, as well as investigate solutions for reducing APU acoustic signature for silent operation during mounted surveillance missions. Finally, this effort investigates the use of small engines and JP8 fuel cell systems for use as prime power solutions for unmanned ground systems.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2013
- Source ID
- 94484c5b65512cdd6d40327193a51fae