Economical Power Source for Dismounted Soldier and Unattended Ground Sensor Missions

Leveraging fielded experience with award winning fuel cell products, Jadoo proposes a fuel flexible approach operating on a common fuel cell platform. Jadoo will develop a life cycle model supported by empirical data obtained from our fielded products, specific application data, and fuel technology specific characteristics. This model will be used to assess multiple energy storage technologies against dismounted soldier (DS) and unattended ground sensor (UGS) application requirements. The Jadoo fuel cell system architecture is well proven over hundreds of commercially fielded systems showing high reliability (>7000 hours), low cost (100W system under $1000), instant startup (less than 2 seconds), start/stop resilience (>7000 start/stops), and a wide environmental temperature (-20 to 55°C). Jadoo has already developed standardized fuel canisters that use ammonia borane, metal hydrides and sodium borohydride using a common fuel cell interface. Jadoo’s N-Stor interface enables a single fuel cell system to operate on any one of the above mentioned technologies without the need to change the system design. Jadoo has already demonstrated the operation of its commercial N-Gen fuel cell system on the above mentioned fuels as well as with reformed methanol and sodium silicide technologies. The needs and requirements of markets must drive the choice of fuel technology. Similarly, applications like cell phones require a rechargeable lithium ion battery while flashlights typically use primary batteries. Utilizing this universal fuel cell approach, end customers may use any combination of fuel storage technologies based on cost, storage capabilities, performance characteristics, refill requirements, and field availability.