1. Maximum work output of an electric battery and its load matching
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Zheqiang Shi, Chih Wu, and Jincan Chen
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Battery (electricity) ,Engineering ,Work output ,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment ,business.industry ,Electrical engineering ,Energy Engineering and Power Technology ,Power system design ,Energy storage ,Fuel Technology ,Nuclear Energy and Engineering ,Alternative energy ,Load resistance ,business ,Energy (signal processing) - Abstract
A simple battery model established by Denno [Power system design and applications for alternative energy sources, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall: 1989] is used to investigate the basic question of how to maximize the work output of an electric battery. The discharge time is determined reasonably and the load resistance is matched optimally. The results obtained here can be used to explain quantitatively the example given by Gyftopoulos [Energy 24 (1999) 1035].
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- 2002
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