Primary Battery Session Utilization of the Mg/MnO2 Dry Cell System.

摘要

Two methods for improving the performance characteristics of the magnesium dry cell have been explored. In the first approach, the improvement was obtained with a hybrid system consisting of the magnesium/manganese dioxide (Mg/MnO2) dry battery and the nickel cadmium (Ni-Cd) rechargeable battery under intermittent discharge conditions. In the second approach the benefit in performance was achieved by insulating the Mg/MnO2 battery against heat losses. The combined influence of both approaches lead to very substantial improvements in low temperature, high current discharge performance. (Author)