Handbook for handling and storage of nickel-cadmium batteries: Lessons learned

Technical Report · Tue Feb 01 04:00:00 EST 1994

OSTI ID:7109909

Ford, F E; Rao, G M; Yi, T Y

The handbook provides guidelines for the handling and storage of conventional NiCd flight batteries. The guidelines are based on many years of experience with ground and in-flight handling of batteries. The overall goal is to minimize the deterioration and irreversible effects of improper handling of NiCd flight batteries on flight performance. A secondary goal is to provide the reader with an understanding, in nonanalytical terms, of the degradation mechanisms of NiCd cells and how these mechanisms are affected by improper ground handling of flight hardware. Section 2 provides the reader with a brief introduction to NiCd cells. The effects of the environment on NiCd batteries are discussed in Section 3, and Section 4 contains 12 guidelines for battery handling and storage with supporting rationale for each guideline. The appendix provides a synopsis of NiCd cell design and evolution over 30 years of space flight on Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) satellites, along with a chronological review of key events that influenced the design of NiCd cells being flown today.

• Research Organization: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Greenbelt, MD (United States). Goddard Space Flight Center
• OSTI ID: 7109909
• Report Number(s): N-94-26613; NASA-RP--1326; NAS--1.61:1326; REPT--94B00027; CNN: NAS5-30375
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

25 ENERGY STORAGE
250903* -- Energy Storage-- Batteries-- Materials
Components
& Auxiliaries
DOCUMENT TYPES
ELECTRIC BATTERIES
ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS
MANUALS
MATERIALS HANDLING
METAL-METAL OXIDE BATTERIES
NICKEL-CADMIUM BATTERIES
STORAGE