Energy Converter for Cardiac Devices.

摘要

During the last phase of the program a second prototype electrochemical energy converter was designed,built and evaluated. This prototype represented a drastic departure from the prior prototype. It was based on hot (130C) concentrated phosphoric acid as electrolyte,and it was built to operate under conditions which promote higher electrochemical efficiency,as well as to solve a host of problems found during the operation of the first prototype. This report is devoted primarily to a discussion of this second prototype. The basic objective of this phase of the program was to make a quantitative assessment of the efficiency range potentially achievable with this novel device.