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| Genre/Form: | Handbooks and manuals Handbooks, manuals, etc Guides, manuels, etc |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David Linden; Thomas B Reddy |
| ISBN: | 0071359788 9780071359788 |
| OCLC Number: | 232700371 |
| Notes: | Revised edition of: Handbook of batteries / David Linden, editor in chiref. 2nd ed. c1995. |
| Description: | pages cm |
| 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 |
| Other Titles: | Handbook of batteries |
| Responsibility: | David Linden, Thomas B. Reddy. |
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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. Battery Man 20020601 Read more...
