Battery grids continuous grid production

Fig. 13.21. Expanded-metal grid ribbon used for continuous plate production of automotive batteries.

Expanded metal grid strip used for continuous plate production in the automotive battery... 

There is no doubt that the continuous grid/plate production technology is most convenient for the manufacture of standard plates for SLI batteries and will certainly compete with the existing casting methods. However, the latter will preserve positions in the battery industry, provided the process is sufficiently flexible with regard to grid size/geometry. 

Fuel cells are batteries with continually renewed reactants. In a normal battery, the reactants deplete over time. In a fuel cell, the reactants flow into the cell as needed to produce electricity, and the products flow out. Fuel cells have great potential as future energy sources, both on a small scale to power portable electronic devices such as laptop computers or even cars and buses, and on a large scale to produce power grid electricity. 

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