摘要:
To provide a molten salt battery which is highly safe and has long charge/discharge cycle life. The molten salt battery of the present invention includes a negative electrode 1 in which a negative electrode active material 12 is predominantly composed of carbon such as hard carbon. The negative electrode active material 12 is surface-treated for imparting hydrophilicity to the negative electrode active material 12 to improve the affinity for the molten salt. Further, a transition metal such as iron is added to the negative electrode active material 12 predominantly composed of hard carbon in order to enhance the affinity for the active material. The molten salt battery has higher safety in production and use and longer charge/discharge cycle life than conventional molten salt batteries using metallic sodium as an electrode.
摘要:
The case for a molten salt battery is used for a molten salt battery containing as an electrolyte a molten salt containing sodium ions. The case is formed of aluminum or an aluminum alloy containing 90% by mass or more of aluminum.
摘要:
A separator of a molten salt battery made of a porous resin sheet. The separator is improved in wettability to a molten salt by giving hydrophilicity to the resin sheet. In the case of a fluororesin sheet, the sheet is impregnated with water, and irradiated with ultraviolet rays so that C—F bonds in the fluororesin are cleaved and the resultant reacts with water to generate hydrophilic groups, such as OH groups, in each surface layer thereof. The separator gains hydrophilicity through the hydrophilic groups. The separator made of the resin can be made into a bag form. In a molten salt battery having the bag-form separator, the growth of a dendrite is prevented.
摘要:
In a molten salt battery device, molten salt batteries are arranged in a container to cause a space to be present around the molten salt batteries, and a heating medium is filled into the space around the molten salt batteries. When an electrothermal heater is used to control the temperature of the heating medium through a temperature controlling section, the heating medium is caused to flow. Between the flowing heating medium and the molten salt batteries, heat is exchanged, whereby the molten salt battery device controls the temperature of the molten salt batteries. Since the molten salt batteries attain the heat exchange with the heating medium, which surrounds the batteries, the internal temperature thereof is evenly controlled. Moreover, the molten salt battery device makes it possible to lower the temperature of the heating medium to cool the molten salt batteries easily.
摘要:
A separator of a molten salt battery made of a porous resin sheet. The separator is improved in wettability to a molten salt by giving hydrophilicity to the resin sheet. In the case of a fluororesin sheet, the sheet is impregnated with water, and irradiated with ultraviolet rays so that C—F bonds in the fluororesin are cleaved and the resultant reacts with water to generate hydrophilic groups, such as OH groups, in each surface layer thereof. The separator gains hydrophilicity through the hydrophilic groups. The separator made of the resin can be made into a bag form. In a molten salt battery having the bag-form separator, the growth of a dendrite is prevented.
摘要:
Provided is a molten salt battery which can be stably charged and discharged. A separator 3 composed of a rectangular plate-shaped glass cloth and containing a molten salt is interposed between a positive electrode 1 and a negative electrode 2 having a rectangular plate shape to form a power generating element X. A battery container 5 is configured to be substantially rectangular parallelepiped-shaped. A non-flexible presser plate 4b pressed by a spring 4a arranged at a negative electrode 2 side in the battery container 5 substantially evenly disperses pressing force from the spring 4a and presses the negative electrode 2 downward. As a result of the reaction, a bottom wall 52 of the battery container presses the positive electrode 1 upward so that no dead space is generated even when a plurality of batteries are combined.
摘要:
In a molten salt battery 1, a positive electrode 2 including an active material film 22 arranged on an Al collector 21, a separator 3 formed of a glass cloth impregnated with a molten salt serving as an electrolyte, and a negative electrode 4 including an active material film 43 and a Zn film 42 arranged on an Al collector 41 are accommodated in an Al case 5. The active material film 43 contains an active material composed of a Sn—Na alloy. The active material film 22 and the active material film 43 occlude and emit Na ions of the molten salt. Thereby, provided are a negative electrode material for a battery, the negative electrode material having higher hardness on a surface side (active material side) than a Na negative electrode during the operation of the battery, suppressing the formation of Na dendrites.
摘要:
The case for a molten salt battery is used for a molten salt battery containing as an electrolyte a molten salt containing sodium ions. The case is formed of aluminum or an aluminum alloy containing 90% by mass or more of aluminum.
摘要:
This molten-salt battery is provided with a battery container for housing a power generation element that contains molten salt. The battery container is provided with a container body (1) and a lid (7). An opening (1E) is provided in the upper surface of the container body (1). The lid (7) is fitted in the opening (1E) of the container body (1) and is welded to the container body (1). A step (1G) is formed to the opening (1E) of the container body (1) along the inner edge of the container body (1). By means of the step (1G), the rim (7A) of the lid (7) is supported with respect to the upper corner of side walls (1A, 1B). Laser light is radiated from above to the rim (7A) of the lid (7) and the upper surface of the side walls (1A, 1B) adjacent thereto. In this way, the rim (7A) of the lid (7) is welded to the container body (1). The molten-salt battery connected body is configured from a plurality of molten-salt batteries. The molten-salt batteries are connected aligned in the horizontal direction in the state of the outer peripheral surfaces of the container bodies (1) of adjacent molten-salt batteries being caused to face each other.
摘要:
A porous metal body includes a porous skeleton that forms a three-dimensional network structure and includes an aluminum layer having a thickness of 1 to 100 μm, and tin layers disposed on an internal surface and an external surface of the aluminum layer. Such a porous metal body can be produced by an internal-tin-layer formation step of forming a tin layer on a surface of a resin molded body having a three-dimensional network structure; an aluminum-skeleton formation step of forming an aluminum layer serving as an aluminum skeleton on a surface of the internal tin layer; an external-tin-layer formation step of forming a tin layer on a surface of the aluminum skeleton; and a resin removal step of removing the resin molded body, the resin removal step being performed after the aluminum-skeleton formation step or after the external-tin-layer formation step.