These are important for a lead acid battery
Taking about lead acid battery, you may think of that it is too big, heavy and not environmental unfriendly. Yes, that’s right. But now the battery is typically used on a car as a starting battery. It gives the car a transient current to start it. Maybe it is also heavy but you can see it is not that big. If you are an active golfer, you may have a golf cart and then you could notice that the golf cart battery is also lead acid battery. And the electric bike adopts it as the power source too. If the battery is too big, it is not able to be installed in the bike. So these all indicate that lead acid batteries are very practical and widely used in our life.
Invented in 1859 by French physician Gaston Plante, lead acid battery stores electrical energy through a reversible chemical reaction. It uses a combination of lead plates or grids and an electrolyte consisting of a diluted sulphuric acid to convert electrical energy into potential chemical energy and back again. The chemical reaction changes from lead oxide when charged to lead sulfate when discharged. The electrolyte of lead-acid batteries is hazardous to your health and may produce burns and other permanent damage if you come into contact with it. So you need to be careful of the battery.
It is very important to check and maintain the lead acid battery to prolong its life. First, give the battery full charged after every use. Lead acid batteries will self discharge if not used. Next check the external and internal of the battery. If any crack and leakage is found, it means you have to replace it. The water will be evaporated in the chemical reaction process. So check the water level. Add distilled water to each cell to bring the electrolyte up to the manufacturer’s recommended “full” level.
Another important key is to store the battery. Heat dramatically reduces a battery’s life. So give it a cool environment to store and keep batteries cool in hot climates. Do not allow a naked flame in the room; and prevent sparking by switching off a circuit before connecting and disconnecting. The gases present are explosive when in the correct proportions. Please don’t leave a battery unused for long periods of time, or it will self discharge and might be sulfation, then not to store energy any more.
We have a habit that the useless things will be thrown away at will. But lead acid battery is an exception. It contains lead, lead compounds and sulfuric acid which are hazardous waste. The acid in particular is important to discard because if you leave it to leak somewhere it can get in the ground and travel to active water sources. Acid is corrosive which is also dangerous if it comes in contact with skin. Moreover, lead compounds can be absorbed through ingestion and inhalation and lead is an acutely and chronically toxic compound, which is also highly toxic to fish, other animals and plants. So how should we dispose of the dead lead acid battery?
About 97% of these lead acid batteries are recycled according the Battery Council International, and can be reused in the making of new batteries based on the recent survey reports in this area. If the battery is disabled, please don’t throw it away, and transport it to be recycled. Let us service the Environment Protection.
Source: www.leoch.com
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