The paper provides an overview about the background of the European Hermes electrical power supply development as far as KOH-fuel cells are concerned and informs about the present status of the work. First of all a short listing of the basic requirements on the fuel cell power supply is given followed by a brief discussion of the present state-of-the-art stack hardware of European companies as the available technology when starting the development. A flow scheme of a mobile KOH system is presented as one candidate among others for realization, benefits and critical items are discussed. The paper ends with a consideration of necessary steps in the future to achieve the goal to have the Hermes fuel cell flight hardware ready in the mid nineties.
Fuel cell system development for Hermes space plan
Entwicklung eines Brennstoffzellensystems fuer den Hermes-Raumfahrtplan
1987
4 Seiten, 5 Bilder
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Englisch
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