Low Cost Water Activated Reserve Battery.

Abstract

This technical report describes a development program to design and build a low cost, water activated battery. Organic oxidants theoretically attractive for use as cathode materials with magnesium anodes were evaluated and compared with presently used seawater battery systems. Increasing use of seawater activated batteries for surveillance buoys has given strong incentive to replacement of the conventionally used silver chloride cathodes with low cost non-strategic materials. The goal is the ultimate use of such a battery as a replacement in the SSQ-53 sonobuoy.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1974
Accession Number
ADA008053

Entities

People

  • M. J. Pollack

Organizations

  • Honeywell International, Inc.

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Buoys
  • Chlorides
  • Magnesium
  • Materials
  • Motivation
  • Reserve Batteries
  • Sonobuoys
  • Strategic Materials
  • Surveillance
  • Water Activated Batteries

Readers

  • Electrical Engineering
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Strategic Security Studies