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Power budget analysis for high altitude airships

Author(s) -

Sang H. Choi,

James R. Elliott,

Glen C. King

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

proceedings of spie, the international society for optical engineering/proceedings of spie

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Conference proceedings

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.192

H-Index - 176

eISSN - 1996-756X

pISSN - 0277-786X

DOI - 10.1117/12.663586

Subject(s) - photovoltaic system , converters , energy conversion efficiency , automotive engineering , photovoltaics , power (physics) , tandem , efficient energy use , electrical engineering , electricity generation , energy transformation , engineering , computer science , environmental science , aerospace engineering , physics , voltage , quantum mechanics , thermodynamics

The High Altitude Airship (HAA) has various potential applications and mission scenarios that require onboard energy harvesting and power distribution systems. The energy source considered for the HAA's power budget is solar photon energy that allows the use of either photovoltaic (PV) cells or advanced thermoelectric (ATE) converters. Both PV cells and an ATE system utilizing high performance thermoelectric materials were briefly compared to identify the advantages of ATE for HAA applications in this study. The ATE can generate a higher quantity of harvested energy than PV cells by utilizing the cascaded efficiency of a three-staged ATE in a tandem mode configuration. Assuming that each stage of ATE material has the figure of merit of 5, the cascaded efficiency of a three-staged ATE system approaches the overall conversion efficiency greater than 60%. Based on this estimated efficiency, the configuration of a HAA and the power utility modules are defined.

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