Lithium/copper chloride batteries

P. R. Mallory, Evaluation of Rechargeable Lithium-Copper Chloride Organic Electrolyte Battery System, Contract No. DA-44-009-AMC-1537(T) (1967). 

SAFT Corporation of America, 50 Rockefeller Plaza, New York 10020, New York also, 107 Beaver Court, Lockeysville, Maryland Primary batteries, zinc-alkaline, zinc-alkaline manganese dioxide, carbon-zinc Leclanche, lithium types (lithium-lead bismuthate, lithium-silver chromate) secondary batteries, nickel-cadmium, iithium-copper oxyphosphate, lithium-thionyl chloride, zinc-air, thermal-cells, water-activated batteries. 

For chemicals, lithium carbonate is the best raw material. Preparing the carbonate from spodumene is an energy-intensive and costly process. Because of that most lithium carbonate production has shifted to chemical treatment of brines. Lithium metal is obtained by electrolysis of a salt melt containing 55% lithium chloride and 45% potassium chloride, a mixture that melts at 352°C. The metal is rolled into thin foils that can used as anodes in lithium batteries, but it can also be plated onto foils of copper or nickel. 

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