Lead-Acid Batteries: Science and Technology: A Handbook of Lead-Acid Battery Technology and Its Influence on the Product 2nd edition

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. The second edition includes new supplementary material (text and illustrations) added to chapters 4 and 6 as well as a brand new chapter 15. Substantial revisions of the other chapters have been made with the aim to update the information provided and thus make the book more beneficial for the users: battery researchers, engineers and technologistsNew second edition contains 15% new material and substantial revisionsPresents 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 appropriate 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)