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D. Feder, Performance Measurement and Reliability of VRLA Batteries, Paper presented at Battery Council International, 106th Convention (Technical Committee Workshop), San Diego, CA, 1994. 

The number of VRLA batteries used in stationary applications is increasing rapidly. They account for more than 5.2% of the total US standby power production and more than 60% of Japanese and European production. Fig. 5.15 shows a VRLA battery design for telecommunications standby power. Over the past decade, VRLA batteries have been scaled to sizes up to 3000 Ah for industrial applications. Although the original... 

In recent years the market for small, portable lead-acid batteries has grown considerably. Almost all portable batteries are VRLA designs. Both cylindrical and rectangular (prismatic) unit cells are made and assembled into multicell packs. 

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Rechargeable lithium ion batteries are of great importance at the present time due to their superiority in terms of volumetric and gravimetric energy density and cycle life, in comparison with their traditional counterparts including value regulated lead acid (VRLA), nickel cadmium (Ni-Cd), and nickel metal hybrid... 

Different types of lead-acid batteries have been developed as energy sources for many power applications, like traction and backup or standby power systems. The flooded lead-acid batteries have an excess or flooded electrolyte and they were the largest used at the beginning of the last century for many applications. Valve-regulated lead-acid (VRLA) batteries were developed as an alternative to the flooded lead-acid batteries, in order to maintain levels of distilled water and prevent drying of cells, which means safe operation for battery packs in electric... 

Two other reactions must be taken into account during the charging of a VRLA cell. These are, the evolution of hydrogen at the negative plate ... 

Thus, the charging of a VRLA cell is potentially more complex than the charging of its flooded counterpart. During the charging of a VRLA cell, thermodynamic/ kinetic conditions allow the progress of six separate reactions at significant rates two charge reactions (the reverse of reactions (1.1) and (1.2)) and four secondary reactions (1.3) to (1.6). 

There are two alternative designs which provide the gas space in VRLA cells. One design has the electrolyte immobilized as a gel, the other has the electrolyte held in an AGM separator. Gas passes through fissures in the gel, or through channels in the AGM (Fig. 1.4). 

Fig. 1.6. Schematic of section through a VRLA cell. Components modified in the ehange from...

A summary of the new demands that are being placed on medium- and large-scale VRLA batteries in all their applications is given in Table 1.1. The necessary... 

Table 1.1. New demands imposed on VRLA battery performance by present and future markets.

Hardening mechanism in lead-calcium alloys. Lead-calcium alloys harden extremely rapidly 80% of the ultimate strength is reached in one day, and virtually full ageing in seven days. Such rapid hardening enhances grid handling and battery production. The rapid hardening was a benefit to VRLA batteries. 

For many years, alloys with V values above 9 1 were not utilized for VRLA batteries. Large battery grids and tubular grids required alloys which would harden rapidly. Alloys of 0.08-0.12wt.% Ca and 0.3. 6wt.% Sn were most commonly utilized for VRLA batteries for standby and telecommunications service. These alloys harden rapidly and the alloys can be handled and pasted after a short ageing time at room temperature compared with weeks for materials with high r values. 

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