Sealed nickel-cadmium batteries

摘要

A project is underway to develop a sealed nickel-cadmium batterywith increased performance and an extended life for aircraftapplications. The authors describe the approach and present the initialfindings. The scope of this project is very broad and includes studies,investigations, and experiments involving all areas of batteryperformance, components, and manufacturing processes including:substrate; impregnation; separators; electrolyte; case design; chargecharacteristics; and long-term failure mechanisms. Because of the numberof variables involved and their complex realization, experiments arebeing carefully designed and statistical methods are used to analyze thedata