Research on the United States Air Force Academy UAV using hydrogen fuel cell technology
United Kingdom, “Journal of Defense Systems” report, at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado, there are 11 departments in carrying out research on the UAV, which the Department of Chemistry faculty and students who are studying the UAV can be used for hydrogen fuel cell(dell inspiron 1100 battery,dell inspiron 1150 battery) technology.
As early as the college about 10 years ago have begun to set foot on the technology, then it is located in boulder, Colorado City (Boulder) and the Ball Aerospace is located in Littleton, Colorado (Littleton) component companies of the hydrogen (Hydrogen Components) launched a fuel cell and hydrogen storage materials research, the aim of seeking a Special Operations Forces soldiers to replace individual products with the battery. In the current study, the development of fuel cell companies by Powell Aerospace, Chemistry Department of the teachers and students specializing in the study of hydrogen and hydrogen generator component parts of the development.
Chemical formula of the overall concept of the hydrogen generator is the use of lithium and aluminum hydride as hydrogen storage materials, through a chemical reaction to the metal hydride to release hydrogen, which produced a fuel cell hydrogen fuel required. To the UAV example, the release of hydrogen fuel must be consistent with the speed and flow of power it needs to match.
In the field of unmanned aerial vehicles, hydrogen fuel cell technology will be the main target is the small UAV electric propulsion. With the use of internal combustion engines or turbine engines as compared to electric propulsion of the acoustic radiation and thermal radiation are relatively low, they are able to improve the UAV can detect the performance of the low. In addition it will start reliably, and very tight. However, today’s conventional battery electric propulsion for unmanned aerial vehicles is still too heavy, and the weight of hydrogen fuel cell power than conventional batteries(dell inspiron 1300 battery,dell inspiron 1420 battery), such as more than 50% of light.
At present, for the realization of hydrogen production rate of 6 percent of the chemical methods used in practice only the potential to play a half. Test participants were under way to resolve this issue. They are trying to use nano-technology (Nanoparticle Technology) so that each hydrogen atom of raw materials can be used also to examine the use of a catalyst to improve the response in the process of hydrogen production rate, this may also improve the hydrogen utilization of raw materials.
Looking to the future, hydrogen fuel cells could replace the ground-based vehicles (including trains) of the existing power plant and power generation equipment has become common. In the current global electricity consumption is about 13 terawatts (1 terawatts watt = one trillion), most of which come from oil, coal and natural gas.
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