Plante, lead-acid battery

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In 1873, the Brequet Company was the first to produce Plante lead—acid batteries and Gramme dynamo machines. Thus, a technical possibility was created to easily generate and store electric energy. At that time, the system dynamo and lead—acid storage battery was still only a curious scientific achievement. Electric energy had not yet found practical application in human life. 

Particular attention is to be paid to sites in the vicinity of point sources of lead, i.e. primary lead smelters, secondary lead smelters, primary copper smelters, lead alkyl manufacturing plants, lead-acid battery plants producing more than 2000 batteries per day, as well as any other stationary source emitting 25 or more tons of lead per year [11]. 

The company manufactures lead-acid batteries at a piant in New Mexico. The company also operates a lead smelter that produces lead ingots at another location in New Mexico and ships them to the battery plant. Lead scrap from the battery plant is returned to the smelter for recovery and reuse. 

The very first functioning lead-acid battery was presented by Gaston Plante in 1860 spirally would lead sheets served as electrodes, separated by a layer of felt — the first separator of a lead-acid battery [12], This assembly in a cylindrical vessel in 10% sulfuric acid had only a low capacity, which prompted Plante to undertake a variety of experiments resulting in many improvements that are still connected with... 

The electrolyte was a solution of ammonium chloride that bathed the electrodes. Like Plante s electrochemistry of the lead-acid battery, Leclanche s electrochemistry survives until now in the form of zinc-carbon dry cells and the use of gelled electrolyte.12 In their original wet form, the Leclanche electrochemistry was neither portable nor practicable to the extent that several modifications were needed to make it practicable. This was achieved by an innovation made by J. A. Thiebaut in 1881, who through encapsulating both zinc cathode and electrolyte in a sealed cup avoided the leakage of the liquid electrolyte. Modern plastics, however, have made Leclanche s chemistry not only usable but also invaluable in some applications. For example, Polaroid s Polar Pulse disposable batteries used in instant film packs use Leclanche chemistry, albeit in a plastic sandwich instead of soup bowls.1... 

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Landrigan et al. (1982) conducted an epidemiologic survey to evaluate occupational exposure to arsine in a lead-acid battery manufacturing plant. Arsine concentrations ranged from nondetectable to 49 /breathing zone samples. A high correlation was found between urinary arsenic concentration and arsine exposure (r=0.84 p=0.0001 for an n of 47). Additionally, arsine levels above 15.6 /ig/m3 (=0.005 ppm) were associated with urinary arsenic concentrations in excess of 50 //g/L. The investigators concluded that exposure to a 200 /ig/m3 arsine exposure standard would not prevent chronic increased absorption of trivalent arsenic. 

The lead-acid cell was invented by Plante in 1859, and has remained more-or-less unchanged since Faurd updated it in 1881. The lead-acid cell is the world s most popular choice of secondary battery, meaning it is rechargeable. It delivers an emf of about 2.0 V. Six lead-acid batteries in series produce an emf of 12 V. 

At the present time, a large number of spent batteries are disposed of directly into the urban waste stream without proper controls. In addition to the most common systems such as zinc-carbon, alkaline manganese and nickel-cadmium, these now include, at an increasing rate, nickel-metal hydride and lithium cells. Such disposal is of serious concern because of the possible effects of battery components on the environment. Consequently, most countries are now evolving policies for collection and recycling. The majority of lead-acid batteries are recycled, but the number of recycling plants in operation worldwide for other battery systems is still very small due to the unfavourable economic balance of such operations (see Table A3.1). Some of the procedures for the disposal and recycling of battery materials are now briefly described. 

In the case of lead-acid batteries, recycling of exhausted units is undertaken worldwide and the process is both efficient and cost-effective. It has been calculated that almost 90% of spent lead-acid batteries are sent back to recycling plants. This high return is explained by the large scale of lead-acid cell production, which makes recycling mandatory in order to control the price of lead on the world market. 

The early electric cars used the old lead-acid batteries. Today s hybrids are provided with more robust nickel-metal units. The EVs of the future are likely to be provided with lithium-iron batteries, found in today s laptops and cell phones. Much work remains to be done in this area to increase safety and life span (to 100,000 mi of driving), while reducing their cost. Nissan and Mitsubishi are both making major investments in building lithium-ion battery mass production plants. 

Lead-Acid. Lead-acid batteries stem from the time of Plante (1860). 

Plante Recherches surl electricite, Paris (1879). The invention of the lead-acid battery. 

Since 1803, when Ritter invented the voltaic pile, rechargeable batteries have been known to exist [5]. The big breakthrough came in 1859, when Plante introduced the lead-acid battery [6]. Until today, this kind of secondary battery has been the most well-known electrochemical device. It is omnipresent in every car as a starter battery and also plays an important role in stationary energy storage (e.g. for uninterruptable power supplies). 

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Respirable particulate or gaseous forms of lead may be inhaled. Sources include cigarette smoke vehicle exhaust emissions from municipal waste incinerators, iron and steel plants, smelting and refining operations, lead acid battery manufacturing facilities, and sandblasting and burning of surfaces coated with lead paint. Particulate air emissions may eventually deposit and contaminate the soil. 

Lead-acid batteries were developed in 1859 by Plante. Scientists including Faure, Volk-mar, Brush, Gladstone, Tudor, Phillipart, and Woodward among others, contributed to improve Plante s cell and to create the lead-acid battery designs that are now available in the market. Lead-acid batteries use lead dioxide as cathode material, metallic lead as negative material, and a sulfuric acid solution as electrolyte. Different materials are used as separator, for example, microporous rubber, cellulose, polyvinyl chloride, polyethylene, and glass fiber. The cell reactions are... 

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If an insufficient amount of waste is generated onsite to make an in-plant recovery system cost effective, or if the recovered material cannot be reused onsite, offsite recovery is preferable. Some materials commonly reprocessed offsite are oils, solvents, electroplating sludges and process baths, scrap metal, and lead-acid batteries. The cost of offsite recycling is dependent upon the purity of the waste and the market for the recovered material. 

The lead batteries had their industrial beginning with the first experiments of Plante on storage batteries in 1859 [14]. Since then many other type of storage batteries have been studied and tested, but lead-acid batteries have been the most largely developed and represent the type of battery most widely used in the past century. 

At present, there is hardly a market for widespread EV use. Were it to emerge in the near future, no electrochemical plants would be ready to power electric vehicles, except for the lead-acid battery. The development of candidate systems, capable of better performance, requires a long time and extensive scientific and... 

The fundamental elements of the lead-acid battery were set in place over 100 years ago. Gaston Plante [2] was the first to report that a useful discharge current could be drawn from a pair of lead plates that had been immersed in sulfuric acid and subjected to a charging current. Later, Camille Faure [3] proposed the concept of... 

Two multifunetional energy storage systems, eaeh with a 1.2-MWh lead-acid battery, were installed reeently in Germany. There is one system in combination with a solar plant and another one in combination with a wind farm. The batteries consist of OCSM cells with the standard design, but modified aecording to the special demand of a multifunctional application. 

Once received at a secondary smelter, a lead-acid battery undergoes several processing stages to recover and treat the various component parts. In most modern plants, automatic battery breakers are used to process and recover these parts. There are many variations to battery-breaking operations throughout the world, although the outputs obtained from each operation are similar, namely, battery pastes, metallic fractions, acid, plastic components. 

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