Experimental bench for ratifying software and hardware for intelligent batteries

• Grant number: 98/15095-5
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Innovative Research in Small Business - PIPE
• Start date: October 01, 1999
• End date: April 30, 2003
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Materials and Metallurgical Engineering - Physical Metallurgy
• Principal Investigator: Gilberto Janólio
• Grantee: Gilberto Janólio
• Company: Dcsystem Energia e Telecomunicações Ltda
• City: São Paulo

Abstract

The purpose of the present piece of research is to develop an experimental bench for ratifying software used in sizing and studying the dynamic behavior of lead acid and special batteries. With this bench and the validation of the software, it will be possible to develop methods and tools for the diagnosis and prevention of operational conditions, and the useful life of systems using direct current essential to the performance of equipment used in telecommunications companies. These include fixed and mobile phone switchboards and biomedical products, such as organs for transplant. The adaptation of this software to a suitably integrated and validated piece of hardware will enable the development of this project. Another of its goals is to ascertain, with a high degree of accuracy, the capacity of the direct current system, especially in completely sealed batteries which allow no access for developing diagnostic and preventive maintenance and, also, fully implantable batteries that similarly have no access faculties for diagnosis and maintenance. This adaptation is expected to give rise to “Software and Hardware for Intelligent Batteries”. (AU)