Metal Hydride-Air Battery.

Abstract

Portable metal-hydride fueled fuel cell systems, producing regulated 28VDC output at 30 watts and 60 watts, have been built. The systems are easily refuelable with pellets of solid sodium aluminum hydride and water to generate hydrogen. Ambient air, supplied by natural convection, is the oxidant. The energy density approaches 960 watt-hours per pound of fuel. A power conditioning unit provides the regulated output power and logic circuits for automatic operation of the fuel cell systems.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1975
Accession Number
ADA008046

Entities

People

  • Bernard S. Baker
  • Michael Onischak

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aluminum
  • Aluminum Hydride
  • Automatic
  • Cells
  • Circuits
  • Convection
  • Energy
  • Fuel Cells
  • Hydrides
  • Hydrogen
  • Logic
  • Logic Gates
  • Metals
  • Power Conditioning

Readers

  • Electrical Engineering
  • Electrochemical Engineering/ Fuel Cell Technologies

Technology Areas

  • Biotechnology