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BETTER BATTERIES
Smaller, lighter, more powerful, and longer-lasting: the better battery is a much-sought commodity in the increasingly portable, ever-more-wireless world of electronics. Powering laptops, handhelds, cell phones, pagers, watches, medical devices, and many other modern necessitites, batteries are crucial to today's cutting-edge technologies.
BEST CHOICE FOR BATTERY DESIGN AND EVALUATION
This definitive guide from top international experts provides the best technical guidance you can find on designing winning products and selecting the most appropriate batteries for particular applications. HANDBOOK OF BATTERIES covers the field from the tiniest batteries yet devised for life-critical applications to the large batteries required for electric and hybrid electric vehicles.
EXPERT INFORMATION
Edited by battery experts David Linden, battery consultant and editor of the first two editions, and Dr. Thomas Reddy, a pioneer in the lithium battery field, HANDBOOK OF BATTERIES updates you on current methods, helps you solve problems, and makes comparisons easier. Essential for professionals, valuable to hobbyists, and preferred as a consumer guide for battery purchasers, this the THE source for battery information.
The only comprehensive reference in the field, HANDBOOK OF BATTERIES has more authoritative information than any other source:
* Authored by a team of leading battery technology experts from around the globe
* Covers the characteristics, properties, and performance of every major battery type
* Entirely revised, including new information on Lithium Ion and Large Nickel Metal Hydride batteries, and portable fuel cells.
This one-of-a-kind HANDBOOK helps you:
* Apply leading-edge technologies, materials, and methods in new designs and products
* Predict battery performance under any conditions
* Have all the needed data and equations at your fingertips
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HANDBOOK OF BATTERIES Smaller, lighter, more powerful and longer-lasting batteries are necessities in the increasingly portable, ever-more-wireless world of laptops, handheld, cell phones, medical devices, and other modern necessities.
Edited by battery experts David Linden, battery consultant and editor of the first two editions, and Dr. Thomas Reddy, a pioneer in the lithium battery field, Linden's Handbook of Batteries, Third Edition, provides you with authoritative information on the characteristics, properties, and performance of every major battery type. This edition focuses on advances in cell efficiency over the past six years, including new information on lithium ion and large nickel metal hydride batteries, and portable fuel cells. This unparalleled resource puts at your fingertips the best technical guidance available anywhere, so you can: Determine the performance characteristics of batteries under all conditions; Select the most suitable battery for a given application; Apply leading-edge technologies, materials, and methods in new designs and products and have necessary data and equations at your fingertips.
Contents include: Principles of Operation, Primary Batteries, Reserve Batteries, Secondary Batteries.
Synopsis
THE WORLD'S LEADING GUIDE TO BATTERY TECHNOLOGYComprehensive, coherent, and completely up-to-date, Handbook of Batteries, Third Edition brings you the expertise of 80 of the world's top experts -- a wealth of hands-on knowledge compiled and edited by two pioneering researchers who are top-ranked consultants to the battery industry.,
Making vital data and equations instantly accessible for a wide range of applications, the Handbook has more authoritative information than any other source on the characteristics, properties, and performance of every major battery type.
This edition's four new chapters give you new, fully-detailed information on Lithium Ion and Propulsion and Industrial Nickel-Metal Hydride batteries, and portable fuel cells -- including small fuel cells (less than 1000 Watts) which are potentially competitive with battery sytems.
Thoroughly updating all developments in the field since 1995, the Third Edition of this ultimate state-of-the-art guide:
*Brings you up to speed on today's cutting edge battery technologies, materials and methods
*Helps you predict battery performance under all operating conditions
*Simplifies the selection of the most suitable batteries for a wide range of applications
About the Author
DAVID LINDEN has been active in battery research, development, and engineering for more than 50 years. He was Director of the Power Sources Division of the U.S. Army Electronics RandD Command. Many of the batteries and power sources currently in use, including lithium batteries and fuel cells, resulted from RandD programs at that Division. Mr. Linden is now a consultant on the development and application of new primary and rechargeable batteries. He is a member of national and interntional groups establishing standards for these new technologies.
THOMAS B. REDDY, Ph.D.was a leader in the development of lithium primary batteries and served as a Vice President of Power Conversion, Inc. (later Hawker Eternacell, Inc.) and Yardney Technical Products, Inc. He continues to act as a consultant to the battery industry. Dr. Reddy is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Bio-Engineering Division of the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. He is also a Distinguished Visiting Scientist in the School of Engineering of Rutgers University.
Table of Contents
Part 1: Principles of Operation. Chapter 1: Basic Concepts. Chapter 2: Electrochemical Principles and Reactions. Chapter 3: Factors Affecting Battery Performance. Chapter 4: Battery Standardization. Chapter 5: Battery Design. Chapter 6: Selection and Application of Batteries. Part 2: Primary Batteries. Chapter 7: Primary Batteries--Introduction. Chapter 8: Zinc-Carbon Batteries (Leclanche and Zinc Chloride Cell Systems). Chapter 9: Magnesium and Aluminum Batteries. Chapter 10: Alkaline-Manganese Dioxide Batteries. Chapter 11: Mercuric Oxide Batteries. Chapter 12: Silver Oxide Batteries. Chapter 13: Zinc/Air Batteries--Button Configuration. Chapter 14: Lithium Batteries. Chapter 15: Solid-Electrolyte Batteries. Part 3: Reserve Batteries. Chapter 16: Reserve Batteries--Introduction. Chapter 17: Magnesium Water-Activated Batteries. Chapter 18: Zinc/Silver Oxide Reserve Batteries. Chapter 19: Spin-Dependent Reserve Batteriies. Chapter 20: Ambient-Temperature Lithium Anode Reserve Batteries. Chapter 21: Thermal Batteries. Part 4: Secondary Batteries. Chapter 22: Secondary Batteries--Introduction. Chapter 23: Lead-Acid Batteries. Chapter 24: Valve Regulated Lead-Acid Batteries. Chapter 25: Iron Electrode Batteries. Chapter 26: Industrial and Aerospace Nickel-Cadmium Batteries. Chapter 27: Vented Sintered-Plate Nickel-Cadmium Batteries. Chapter 28: Portable Sealed Nickel-Cadmium Batteries. Chapter 29: Portable Sealed Nickel-Metal Hydride Batteries. Chapter 30: Propulsion and Industrial Nickel-Metal Hydride Batteries. Chapter 31: Nickel-Zinc Batteries. Chapter 32: Nickel-Hydrogen Batteries. Chapter 33: Silver Oxide Batteries. Chapter 34: Rechargeable Lithium Batteries (Ambient Temperature). Chapter 35: Lithium-Ion Batteries. Chapter 36: Rechargeable Zinc/Alkaline/Manganese Dioxide Batteries. Part 5: Advanced Batteries for Electric Vehicles and Emerging Applications Chapter 37: Advanced Batteries for Electric Vehicles and Emerging Applications --Introduction Chapter 38: Metal/Air Batteries. Chapter 39: Zinc/Bromine Batteries. Chapter 40: Sodium-Beta Batteries. Chapter 41: Lithium/Iron Sulfide Batteries. Part 6: Portable Fuel Cells Chapter 42: Portable Fuel Cells - Introduction Chapter 43: Small Fuel Cells (Less Than 1000 Watts). Part 7: Appendices Definitions Standard Reduction Potentials Electrochemical Equivalents of Battery Materials Standard Symbols and Constants Conversion Factors Bibliography Battery Manufacturers and R&D Organizations