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

Description

The book presents a comprehensive overview of the theory of the technological processes of lead-acid battery manufacture and their influence on battery performance parameters. It summarizes the current knowledge about the technology of lead-acid battery production and presents it in the form of an integral theory. This theory is supported by ample illustrative material and experimental data, thus allowing technologists and engineers to control the technological processes in battery plants and providing university lecturers with a toll for clear and in-depth presentation of the technology of lead-acid battery production in their courses. The relationship between the technological processes and the performance characteristics of the batteries is disclosed too. Content: Front Matter • Preface • Table of Contents •Part I. Fundamentals of Lead - Acid Batteries 1. Invention and Development of the Lead - Acid Battery 2. Fundamentals of Lead - Acid Batteries •Part II. 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 III. 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 IV. 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 V. Battery Storage and VRLA Batteries 13. Processes after Formation of the Plates and during Battery Storage 14. Methods to Restore the Water Decomposed during Charge and Overcharge of Lead - Acid Batteries. VRLA Batteries •Part VI. Calculation of the Active Materials in a Lead - Acid Cell 15. Calculation of the Active Materials for Lead - Acid Cells • Epilogue Appendices Index