Electrochemical Power Sources: Fundamentals, Systems, and Applications

Advanced Industrial Lead–Acid Batteries

Eduardo Cattaneo, Bernhard Riegel, Jürgen Garche

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN:
  9780444632500
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Physical & Theoretical Chemistry

Advanced Industrial Lead-Acid Batteries, the latest release in the Electrochemical Power Sources: Fundamentals, Systems, and Applications series, presents a detailed accounting of reserve and motive power industrial lead-acid batteries, also including recent developments and new applications. Lead-acid batteries (LAB) for reserve and motive power applications have, in recent years, undergone an evolutionary process triggered by novel developments in telecommunication, information technology, material handling, and renewable energy applications. This book details those advances, giving users the latest information on this rapidly advancing field. - Presents a complete description and deployment of industrial batteries - Gives a detailed accounting of all the components of industrial batteries and their functions - Covers the most common service-life limiting factors of industrial batteries - Includes a comprehensive list of battery testing methods, i.e., capacity and self-discharge tests - Lists the usual parameters in battery management systems that are necessary for correct field function - Provides details on all manufacturing techniques of LAB

Table of contents

• Electrochemical Power Sources: Fundamentals, Systems, and Applications
• Chapter 1 Operating principle of lead–acid batteries
• Chapter 2 General description: Main cell components
• Chapter 3 General description, accessories: Catalyst plugs, watering systems, acid level monitoring, battery management systems
• Chapter 4 Development trends for lead–acid batteries
• Chapter 4.1 The battery as a system component
• Chapter 4.2 Novel cell architectures of lead–acid batteries
• Chapter 5 Overview of industrial battery applications
• Chapter 6 Overview of stationary lead–acid batteries
• Chapter 7 Overview of motive power lead–acid batteries
• Chapter 8 Charging of lead–acid batteries
• Chapter 9 Environmental and safety issues of lead–acid batteries
• Chapter 10 Alternative electrochemical storage systems
• Chapter 11 Market developments and the future of the lead–acid system
• Index