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Assessing battery energy storage for integration with hybrid propulsion and high energy weapons

Farrier, L; Bucknall, R; (2019) Assessing battery energy storage for integration with hybrid propulsion and high energy weapons. In: Proceedings of the Engine as a Weapon International Symposium VIII. IMarEST Green open access

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Abstract

In the future warship power and propulsion systems need to be designed for increased flexibility, in part to sustain the demand of changing load profiles such as those characterised by high ramp-rates of new weapons and sensors intended to support enhanced future warfighting capability. Lithium-ion based battery performance is improving at a prominent pace in the automotive sector, increasing in both energy and power density, thus there is now an opportunity to exploit these characteristics for naval power systems. A common use energy storage system could facilitate benefits such as reduced fuel burn and prime mover running hours by reducing the number of running generator sets. Importantly, the improvement in battery systems, has reached a juncture where the technology could be considered to support directed energy weapons. The feasibility of a Lithium-ion NMC based energy storage system, capable of high discharge rates, to power predicted laser directed energy weapons using time domain simulation is investigated in this paper. Results verify that the simulated system is capable of high rates of fire for extended periods subject to state of charge operating limitations.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: Assessing battery energy storage for integration with hybrid propulsion and high energy weapons
Event: Engine as a Weapon International Symposium VIII
Location: London, UK
Dates: 2nd-3rd July 2019
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.24868/issn.2515-8171.2019.003
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.24868/issn.2515-8171.2019.003
Language: English
Additional information: This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords: Batteryenergystorage,high-energylasers,hybridpropulsion.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Mechanical Engineering
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10076040
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