Sodium-sulfur battery development. Phase IV interim report, 1 March 1978 to 29 February 1979

Technical Report · Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1980

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5046327· OSTI ID:5046327

Harlow, R. A.

This report summarizes the activities of the DOE-Ford Sodium-Sulfur Battery Development Program during the period 1 January 1979 to 1 March 1980. During this period, considerable progress was made toward development of cells with improved performance, durability, producibility, and safety. Although the work strongly emphasized cells for stationary energy storage (SES), many of the accomplishments are directly applicable to (smaller) electric-vehicle (EV) cells. Cell related activities included development of high quality ..beta..''-alumina solid electrolytes and of ceramic processing improvements. Alternate cell configurations were analyzed to identify potential designs of higher volumetric efficiencies than the present tubular designs. Supporting research included studies of cell degradation and corrosion resistant materials. Destructive cell safety tests were successful in verifying safe designs. Economic analyses were performed on projected large-scale production quantities of both SES and EV cells, and on an entire 100-MWh SES battery system designed during Phase IV. Conceptual designs were evaluated for SES and EV batteries.

• Research Organization: Ford Aerospace and Communications Corp., Newport Beach, CA (USA). Aeronutronic Div.
• DOE Contract Number: AM02-79CH10012
• OSTI ID: 5046327
• Report Number(s): DOE/CH/10012-T2; ON: DE82021825
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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