• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2006.11b
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• pp.636-645
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• 2006

In order to use railway system standby power, produced 160Ah NiMH battery that would be able to substitute the lead acid battery or NiCd battery form which contain the toxic material in environment, using parallel connected 80Ah NiMH battery. And in order to develop proper electrode in the 160Ah NiMH battery, tested high rate discharge performance of the ternary electrolyte. 160Ah NiMH battery evaluated the various test in order to use railway system standby power.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.1-8
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• 2014

For this study, a 160Ah Ni-MH battery is produced with parallel arranged two 80Ah Ni-MH batteries as an unit, in order to start diesel generator(engine) in place of Lead Acid battery or Ni-cd battery which contain indicated toxic pollutant of Environmental pollution, by high capacity Ni-MH battery. And the ternary electrolyte recipe is requested to develop proper electrodes of the 160Ah Ni-MH battery, and then the 160Ah battery can be tested at high rate discharging performance. Zn is added to negative electrode for the improvement of performance. 160Ah Ni-MH battery has been tested in various experiments for diesel engine starting. As the result, diesel engine starting is found successfully.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.873-877
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• 2009

In order to use railway system standby power, produced 160Ah NiMH battery that would be able to substitute the lead acid battery or NiCd battery form which contain the toxic material in environment, using parallel connected 80Ah NiMH battery. And in order to develop proper electrode in the 160Ah NiMH battery, tested high rate discharge performance of the ternary electrolyte. 160Ah NiMH battery evaluated the various test in order to use railway system standby power.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.181-186
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• 2010

This paper presents a new method for the estimation of State of Charge (SOC) for NiMH batteries. Among the conventional methods to estimate SOC, Coulomb Counting is widely used, but this method is not precise due to error integration. Another method that has been proposed to estimate SOC is by using a measurement of the Open Circuit Voltage (OCV). This method is found to be a precise one for SOC estimation. In NiMH batteries, the hysteresis characteristic of OCV is very strong compared to other type of batteries. Another characteristic of NiMH battery to be considered is that the OCV of a NiMH battery under discharging mode is lower than it is under charging mode. In this paper, the OCV is modeled by a simple method based on a hyperbolic function which well known as Takacs’s model. The OCV model is then used for SOC estimation. Although the model is simple, the error is within 10%.

• Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.79-90
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• 1997

Extensive work has been done on investigating the inner cell pressure characteristics of sealed type Ni-MH battery in which Zr-Ti-Mn-V-Ni alloy is used as anode. The inner cell pressure of this type Ni-MH battery much more increases with the charge/discharge cycling than that of the other type Ni-MH battery where commercialized $AB_5$ type alloy is used as anode. The increase of inner cell pressure in the sealed type Ni/MH battery using Zr-Ti-Mn-V-Ni alloy system is mainly due to the accumulation of oxygen gas during charge/discharge cycling. The accumulation of oxygen gas arises mainly due to the low rate of oxygen recombination on the MH electrode surface during charge/discharge cycling. The difference of oxygen recombination rate between $AB_5$ type electrode and Zr-Ti-Mn-V-Ni electrode is caused by the difference of electrode reaction surface area resulting from different particle size after their activation and the difference of surface catalytic activity for oxygen recombination reaction, respectively. After EIS analysis, it is identified that the surface catalytic activity affects much more dominantly on the oxygen recombination reaction than the reaction surface area does. In order to suppress the inner cell pressure of Ni-MH battery where Zr-Ti-Mn-V-Ni is used as anode, it is suggested that the surface catalytic activity for oxygen recombination should be improved.

• Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.284-291
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• 2007

The Ni-MH batteries for HEV and industry are normally placed in outdoor, consequently causing an too weak discharge power problem due to a cold weather specially in winter time. In order to improve the low temperature performances of the Ni-MH battery for HEV and industrial uses, it has been investigated the low temperature discharge characteristics of Ni-MH battery with various electrolytes at $-18^{\circ}C$. The summary of experimental results are as follows. The low temperature characteristics depended strongly on the characteristics of electrolytes. When the concentration of the electrolytes were too high or too low the low temperature performance was poor. The best electrolyte was composed of KOH 6.2M+LiOH 1.2M. An addition of RbOH or CsOH to electrolyte improved the low temperature performance. The best total concentration of electrolyte composed of KOH, NaOH and LiOH was about 7M.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.554-559
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• 1998

Equalizing the state of charge of cell that affects the charge/discharge quality and efficiency of the battery through the charge/discharge characteristic experiments of battery source, we develope the high efficiency charge/discharge system which would be used in serial HEV with the constant engine-generator output. For this, establishes the electrical model of Ni-MH battery appropriate to the high efficiency charge/discharge conditions. There is no model of Ni-MH cell, so we used Ni-Cd model and obtain the Ni-MH model through the experiment. A reason that each cell has the same charge/discharge property for applying the cell model to serial/parallel connected battery source extensively is needed. Therefore, in this paper, propose the Ni-MH charger/discharger has the equalization charging function and selectable cut-off function.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.568-574
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• 1997

The effect of microencapsulation of maetal hydride (MH) with copper on the electrode performance of a Ni/MH battery has been investigated. The MH electrodes were prepared with a combination of cold press and paste methods. The discharge capacity of the electrode increased with an addition of small amounts if CMC into the electrode, but decreased when heat-treated in an oxygen-free nitrogen flow. The capacity of a Cu-coated $LaNi_5$ electrode was higher than that of LaNi5electrode. The discharge capacity of the electrode prepared with Cu-coated $LaNi_5$ increased with the increase of copper content in the electrode. It is considered that the increase of copper content enhanced the current density on the electrode surface, leading to the increase of the discharge capacity The MH electrode coated by an acidic electroless plating method showed much higher discharge capacity than that using an alkaline electroless plating method. The discharge capacity of the $LaNi_{4.5}Al_{0.5}$ electrode was higher than that of the $LaNi_5$ electrode. Also, the effect of microencapsulation on the deactivation of $LaNi_5$ was studied using an absorption-desorption cycle in CO-containing hydrogen.

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.168-168
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• 2000

• Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.495-503
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• 2011

The sealed nickel-metal hydride (Ni-MH) secondary battery are primarily used as energy storage for the HEV. But, the research on Ni-MH battery has focused on anode materials. In the present study, we investigate to improve the electrochemical characteristics of Ni-MH batteries using the surface treatment of $Ni(OH)_2$ cathode by CoOOH. Surface treated $Ni(OH)_2$ cathode showed significant improvement in the activation behavior, rate capability, charge retention, and cycle life of the batteries were significantly improved. In addition, the surface treated electrode exhibited the higher overvoltage for oxygen evolution than the untreated electrode. This phenomenon indicates that the charge efficiency can be improved by suppressing the oxygen evolution on cathode.