CA1043865A - Galvanic cell with anode of light metal, non-aqueous electrolyte, and cathode with pb3o4 as active material - Google Patents

Galvanic cell with anode of light metal, non-aqueous electrolyte, and cathode with pb3o4 as active material

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CA1043865A
CA1043865A CA256,048A CA256048A CA1043865A CA 1043865 A CA1043865 A CA 1043865A CA 256048 A CA256048 A CA 256048A CA 1043865 A CA1043865 A CA 1043865A
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pb3o4
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Ernst Voss
Helmut Lauck
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VARTA Batterie AG
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    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01MPROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY
    • H01M4/00Electrodes
    • H01M4/02Electrodes composed of, or comprising, active material
    • H01M4/36Selection of substances as active materials, active masses, active liquids
    • H01M4/48Selection of substances as active materials, active masses, active liquids of inorganic oxides or hydroxides
    • H01M4/56Selection of substances as active materials, active masses, active liquids of inorganic oxides or hydroxides of lead
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01MPROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY
    • H01M6/00Primary cells; Manufacture thereof
    • H01M6/14Cells with non-aqueous electrolyte
    • H01M6/16Cells with non-aqueous electrolyte with organic electrolyte
    • YGENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02EREDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
    • Y02E60/00Enabling technologies; Technologies with a potential or indirect contribution to GHG emissions mitigation
    • Y02E60/10Energy storage using batteries

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Abstract

Abstract of the Disclosure Pb3O4 is the electrochemically reducible ingredient of the positive electrode mass in a galvanic element having a light metal negative electrode and a non-aqueous electrolyte.

Description

The inven~ion relates to a galvanic element having a negative elec-rode of light metal, a non-aqueous electrolyte, and a positive metal oxide electrode.
Because of their low equivalent weight and high standard potential, light metals have exceptionally high energy density when used as the electrode materials in galvanic cells. From this standpoint, lithium is particularly suitable as the electrode material.
The high chemical reactivity of light metals requires on the one hand, the use of non-aqueous electrolyte while, on the other hand, it places special requirements upon the selection of the material for the positive electrode. Mbst materials are too readily soluble in the electrolyte, which causes the useful capacity of such an electrolyte to seriously decline during storage. For other materials, the current producing electrochemical reaction is so strongly impeded that discharge at higher current densities becomes im- -practical. -By way of illustration, German Patent 2,010,989 discloses a galvanic element having a negative lithium electrode and a positive metal halogen or metal oxide electrode and an electrolyte which contains a lithium-hexafluorar- ~-senate dissolved in a metal ester of a fatty acid with few carbon atoms. As solvent, there is used the methyl ester of formic acid. The positive electrode may consist, for example of vanadium pentoxide.
In German Offenlegungsschrift 2,363,386 an element is disclosed having ~
a positive electrode of molybdenum trioxide and a negative lithium electrode. ~ , ;
These known electrochemical systems, however, have various disadvan-tages attributable in part to an insufficiently high energy density and in part to the high cost of the cathode material. In addition, the materials of the positive electrodes frequently also exhibit a non-negligible solubility in the organic electrolyte and this seriously impairs their shelf life. Moreover, a cell such as one having a negative lithium electrode and a positive vanadium pentoxide electrode exhibits a relatively high discharge potential so that it ~ ;~
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is not interchangeable with conventional cells of the Leclanché type.
Accordingly, it is an object of the invention to provide an electro-chemical cell of the above identified type with a light metal electrode and an organic electrolyte and having an energy density which is high relative to its volume, which has good shelf life, and whose raw material costs are low.
These objects and otherswhich will appear are achieved in accordance with the present invention by making the electrochemically reducible component of the positive electrode mass of Pb304.
Pb304 is particularly desirable as the positive electrode material because it has high capacity per unit volume. This amounts to 2,840 Ah/l.
Moreover, Pb304 is practically insoluble in electrolyte solutions as, for example, in a one molar solution of lithium perchlorate in a mixture of 40 percent by volume of propylene carbonate and 60 percent by volume of 1,2-dimethoxy ethane, or in a one molar solution of lithium perchlorate in a mix-ture of 40 percent by volume of butyrolacton and 60 percent by volume of 1,2-dimethoxi ethane. For these reasons the cell has good shelf life. It also has the additional advantage that the ingredients of which it is composed are very inexpensive. Still an additional advantage arises when the Pb304 elec-trode is combined with a lithium electrode as the negative electrode. The tischarge potential of this combination corresponds to the potential of the conventional Leclanché cell and therefore it makes possible its interchange-ability with conventional primary elements.
In addition to the above-mentioned preferred solutions, the electro-lyte may also consist of solutions of lithium perchlorate, lithium hexafluorar-senate, lithium hexafluorphosphate, lithium aluminum chloride, lithium bromide or lithium borfluoride in the solvents tetrahydrofuran, dioxolan, dimethyl sul-fite, propylene glycol sulfite, methyl formiate, methyl acetate, 1,2-dimethoxy ethane, butyrolacton, dimethyl carbonate, or propylene carbonate. Also mix-tures of these solvents may be utilized.
Cells embodying the invention may be produced, for example, as
- 2 - -i, follows. Finally divided Pb304 is thoroughly mixed with about 1 to 10 percent by weight and preferably about 4 percent by weight of graphite as electronic conductor and with abou~ 0,3 to 1.0 percent by weight and preferably about 0.5 percent by weight of a binder such as polytetrafluorethylene, and then pressed into the shape of an electrode pellet. These pellets are either pressed directly into the bottom of a button shaped cell container, or else they are surrounded with a small mesh nickel net and then placed in the bottom of the cell receptacle and at about l.S mm thick separator of polypropylene or glass matting is placed upon the tablet. Upon the separator, the electrolyte solu-tion may be dripped. A lithium leaf of appropriate thickness forming the negative electrode is pressed into a piece of nickel expanded metal which is attached by spot welding to the inside of the cell cover. The cells are then closed in conventional manner.
As electrolyte there is preferably added a one molar solution of lithium perchlorate in about 40 percent by volume of butyrolacton, or propy-lene carbonate and about 60 percent by weight of 1,2-dimethoxy ethane.
The open circuit potential of the cell is 2.1 V, the discharge poten- j ;
tial 1.5 V. At a current density of 1 mA/cm2 the cell can be discharged for about 350 hours at constant potential, as appears from the discharge curve shown in the accompanying drawing. It is surprising that no potential step occurs during discharge, even though this might have been expected due to the various values of the lead in the active positive substance. The energy den-sity of these cells exceeds 600 Wh/l.
In addition to lithium, magnesium and calcium are also suitable as the light metals for this type of cell construction.

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Claims (7)

THE EMBODIMENTS OF THE INVENTION IN WHICH AN EXCLUSIVE
PROPERTY OR PRIVILEGE IS CLAIMED ARE DEFINED AS FOLLOWS:
1. A galvanic element comprising: a negative electrode of light metal, a non-aqueous electrolyte; and a positive electrode of metal oxide, the elec-trochemically reducible ingredient of the positive electrode mass being Pb3O4.
2. The element of claim 1, wherein the electrolyte is a 1-molar solu-tion of lithium perchlorate in a mixture of butyrolacton or propylene car-bonate and 1,2-dimethoxy ethane in volumetric proportions of about 40 to 60.
3. The element of claim 1 wherein the Pb3O4 is in mixture with about 1 to 10 percent by weight of graphite and about 0.3 to 1.0 percent by weight of a binder.
4. The element of claim 3, wherein the Pb3O4 positive electrode mass is in mixture with about 4 percent by weight of graphite and about 0.5 percent by weight of a binder.
5. The element of claim 4, wherein the binder is polytetrafluorethy-lene.
6. The element of claim 1, wherein the negative electrode is selected from the group of lithium, magnesium or calcium.
7. The element of claim 6, wherein the negative electrode is of lithi-um.
CA256,048A 1975-08-08 1976-06-30 Galvanic cell with anode of light metal, non-aqueous electrolyte, and cathode with pb3o4 as active material Expired CA1043865A (en)

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DE3129634A1 (en) * 1980-09-06 1982-04-15 Varta Batterie Ag, 3000 Hannover Galvanic element
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