Lead-Acid Batteries: Science and Technology: A Handbook of Lead-Acid Battery Technology and Its Influence on the Product

Lead-Acid Batteries: Science and Technology: A Handbook of Lead-Acid Battery Technology and Its Influence on the Product, Second Edition presents a comprehensive overview of the technological processes of lead-acid battery manufacture and their influence on performance parameters. The book summarizes current knowledge on lead-acid battery production, presenting it in the form of an integral theory that is supported by ample illustrative material and experimental data that allows technologists and engineers to control technological processes in battery plants. In addition, the book provides university lecturers with a tool for a clear and in-depth presentation of lead-acid battery production in courses.

This updated edition includes new supplementary material (text and illustrations) in chapters 2, 4, 6 and 16, as well as a brand new chapter on the action of carbon as an additive to the negative active material and the utilization of the lead-carbon supercapacitor electrodes. Substantial revisions of other chapters have been made, making the book beneficial for battery researchers, engineers and technologists.

Written by a world authority on lead-acid batteries in a comprehensive and unified mannerIncludes new chapters on lead-acid batteries operating in the HRPSoC duty for hybrid electric vehicle applications and on lead-carbon electrodesPresents a comprehensive overview of the theory of the technological processes of lead-acid battery manufacture and their influence on battery performance parametersProposes optimum conditions for individual technological processes that would yield superior structures of the lead and lead dioxide active massesDiscusses the processes involved in the closed oxygen cycle in VRLAB and the thermal phenomena leading to thermal runaway (TRA)

Part 1. Fundamentals of Lead–Acid Batteries 1. Invention and Development of the Lead–Acid Battery 2. Fundamentals of Lead–Acid Batteries

Part 2. Materials Used for Lead–Acid Battery Manufacture 3. H₂SO₄ Electrolyte—An Active Material in the Lead–Acid Cell 4. Lead Alloys and Grids. Grid Design Principles 5. Leady Oxide

Part 3. Processes During Paste Preparation and Curing of the Plates 6. Pastes and Grid Pasting 7. Additives to the Pastes for Positive and Negative Battery Plates 8. Curing of Battery Plates

Part 4. Plate Formation 9. Soaking of Cured Plates Before Formation 10. Formation of Positive Lead–Acid Battery Plates 11. Processes During Formation of Negative Battery Plates 12. Technology of Formation

Part 5. Battery Storage and VRLA Batteries 13. Processes After Formation of the Plates and During Battery Storage 14. Valve-Regulated Lead–Acid (VRLA) Batteries 15. Lead–Carbon Electrodes

Part 6. Calculation of the Active Materials in a Lead–Acid Cell 16. Calculation of the Active Materials for Lead–Acid Cells