Lead-Acid Battery Technologies : Fundamentals, Materials, and Applications

This book offers a systematic and state-of-the-art overview of the materials, system design, and related issues for the development of lead-acid rechargeable battery technologies. Featuring contributions from leading experts in industry and academia, the text describes the underlying science involved in the operation of lead-acid batteries, highlights advances in materials science and engineering for materials fabrication, delivers a detailed discussion of battery modeling, analyzes the integration of lead-acid batteries with other primary power systems, and explores emerging applications such as electric bicycles and microhybrid vehicles.

Lead-Acid Battery Technologies: Fundamentals, Materials, and Applications offers a systematic and state-of-the-art overview of the materials, system design, and related issues for the development of lead-acid rechargeable battery technologies. Featuring contributions from leading scientists and engineers in industry and academia, this book:

• Describes the underlying science involved in the operation of lead-acid batteries
• Highlights advances in materials science and engineering for materials fabrication
• Delivers a detailed discussion of the mathematical modeling of lead-acid batteries
• Analyzes the integration of lead-acid batteries with other primary power systems
• Explores emerging applications such as electric bicycles and microhybrid vehicles

Lead-Acid Battery Technologies: Fundamentals, Materials, and Applications provides researchers, students, industrial professionals, and manufacturers with valuable insight into the latest theories, experimental methodologies, and research achievements in lead-acid battery technologies.