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First principles nickel-cadmium and nickel hydrogen spacecraft battery models

Abstract

The principles of Nickel-Cadmium and Nickel-Hydrogen spacecraft battery models are discussed. The Ni-Cd battery model includes two phase positive electrode and its predictions are very close to actual data. But the Ni-H2 battery model predictions (without the two phase positive electrode) are unacceptable even though the model is operational. Both models run on UNIX and Macintosh computers.

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Timmerman, P., Ratnakumar, B. V., Distefano, S.. 1996-02-01. First principles nickel-cadmium and nickel hydrogen spacecraft battery models. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19960020587

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