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Characterization testing of the teledyne passive breadboard fuel cell powerplant
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Loyselle, Patricia Prokopius, Kevin |
| Copyright Year | 2011 |
| Description | NASA's Exploration Technology Development Program (ETDP) is tasked with the development of enabling and enhancing technologies for NASA's exploration missions. As part of that initiative, the return to the Moon requires a reliable, efficient, and lightweight fuel cell powerplant system to provide power to the Altair Lunar Lander and for lunar surface systems. Fuel cell powerplants are made up of two basic parts; the fuel cell itself and the supporting ancillary subsystem. This subsystem is designed to deliver reactants to the fuel cell and remove product water and waste heat from the fuel cell. Typically, fuel cell powerplant ancillary subsystems rely upon pumps and active water separation techniques to accomplish these tasks for closed hydrogen/oxygen systems. In a typical system, these components are the largest contributors to the overall parasitic power load of the fuel cell powerplant. A potential step towards the development of an efficient lightweight power system is to maximize the use of "passive" or low-power ancillary components as a replacement to these high-power load components |
| File Size | 4882749 |
| Page Count | 28 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20110014980 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t05x79r59 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2011-07-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Spacecraft Propulsion And Power Characterization Electric Power Supplies Hydrogen-based Energy Breadboard Models Fuel Cells Fuel Cell Power Plants Spacecraft Power Supplies Lunar Surface Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |
