Cost/benefit analyses of a new battery pack management technique for telecommunication applications: future directions with fuel cell/battery systems

Among the various types of couple and family therapies used to treat substance abuse, Behavioral Couples Therapy (BCT) has the strongest empirical support for its effectiveness. During the last 3 decades, multiple studies have consistently found participation in BCT by married or cohabiting substance-abusing patients results in significant reductions in substance use, decreased problems related to substance use (e.g., job loss, hospitalization), and improved relationship satisfaction. Recently, investigations exploring other outcomes have found that, compared to traditional individual-based treatments, participation in BCT results in significantly (a) higher reductions in partner violence, (b) greater improvements in psychosocial functioning of children who live with parents who receive the intervention, and (c) better cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness. In addition to providing an overview of the theoretical underpinnings of BCT, methods used with this intervention, and the literature supporting its use, this article also examines the future directions of BCT research for substance abuse.

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Analysis of PEM fuel cell – Supercapacitor – Battery pack system during standard cycle

SPEEDAM 2010 ◽

10.1109/speedam.2010.5542077 ◽

2010 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

F. Ciancetta ◽

A. Ometto ◽

N. Rotondale

Keyword(s):

Fuel Cell ◽

Pem Fuel Cell ◽

Battery Pack

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Fuzzy energy management for hybrid fuel cell/battery systems for more electric aircraft

10.1063/1.4981996 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Jenica-Ileana Corcau ◽

Liviu Dinca ◽

Teodor Lucian Grigorie ◽

Alexandru-Nicolae Tudosie

Keyword(s):

Fuel Cell ◽

Energy Management ◽

Electric Aircraft ◽

Battery Systems ◽

Fuzzy Energy ◽

More Electric Aircraft

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λ-MnO2Positive Electrode for Fuel Cell/Battery Systems

Journal of The Electrochemical Society ◽

10.1149/2.0761609jes ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 163 (9) ◽

pp. A2047-A2053

Author(s):

Mike Musil ◽

Bokkyu Choi ◽

Atsushi Tsutsumi

Keyword(s):

Fuel Cell ◽

Battery Systems

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Transient behavior experiments for hybrid fuel cell-battery systems

2012 International Symposium on Information Technologies in Medicine and Education ◽

10.1109/itime.2012.6291467 ◽

2012 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Chung-Hsing Chao ◽

Tien-Chien Jen

Keyword(s):

Fuel Cell ◽

Transient Behavior ◽

Battery Systems

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Experimental Evaluation of Cell Balancing Algorithms with Arduino Based Monitoring System

Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics ◽

10.20965/jaciii.2016.p0968 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 20 (6) ◽

pp. 968-973 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Muhammad Talha ◽

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Furqan Asghar ◽

Sung Ho Kim ◽

Keyword(s):

Monitoring System ◽

High Efficiency ◽

Battery Pack ◽

Battery Life ◽

Battery System ◽

Battery Systems ◽

Response Output ◽

Multiple Cells ◽

Cell Balancing ◽

Partial Current

The trend toward more electric vehicles has demanded the need for high efficiency, high voltage and long life battery systems [1,_2]. Also renewable energy systems carry huge battery backups to overcome the renewable source shortage. Battery systems are affected by many factors, cells unbalancing is one of most important among these factors. Without the balancing system, individual cell voltages will differ over time that will decrease the battery pack capacity quickly. This condition is especially severe when the battery has a long string of cells and frequent regenerative charging is done via battery pack. Cell balancing is a method of designing safer battery solutions that extends battery runtime as well as battery life. Balancing mechanism can help in equalizing the state of charge across the multiple cells, therefore increasing the performance of battery system. Different cell balancing methodologies have been proposed for battery pack in recent years. These methods have some merits and demerits in comparison to each other; e.g. balancing time, complexity and active or passive balancing etc. In this paper, current bypass active cell balancing and Arduino based monitoring system designing and implementation is carried out. In charging process, this balancing technique provides partial current bypass using charging slope for weak cells. Also the passive shunt resistor technique is implemented to compare and verify the proposed system efficient response. Output result shows that this proposed balancing technique can perform cell balancing in much effective and efficient way as compared to previous balancing techniques. Using this cell balancing technique, we can improve overall battery health and lifetime.

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