CN115332487A - Reference electrode of lead-acid battery, activation method and application - Google Patents

Reference electrode of lead-acid battery, activation method and application Download PDF

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CN115332487A
CN115332487A CN202211250298.2A CN202211250298A CN115332487A CN 115332487 A CN115332487 A CN 115332487A CN 202211250298 A CN202211250298 A CN 202211250298A CN 115332487 A CN115332487 A CN 115332487A
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Abstract

The invention discloses a reference electrode of a lead-acid battery, an activation method and application, wherein the electrode is made of pure lead, and an electrolyte is sulfuric acid; the reference electrode becomes Pb/PbSO after being activated 4 The reference electrode can be designed into a small-sized reference electrode, and can indicate the working state of the lead-acid battery according to the potential change of the working electrode relative to the electrode of the working electrode, so that effective reference is provided for intelligently and effectively managing and controlling the working state of the battery, and the performance of the battery is improved.

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Reference electrode of lead-acid battery, activation method and application
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of reference electrodes, in particular to a lead-acid battery reference electrode, an activation method and a potential detection method.
Background
Lead-acid batteries (LA) are rechargeable batteries widely used in various fields of national economy, and are batteries in which electrodes are mainly made of lead and its oxides, and an electrolyte is a sulfuric acid solution. In the charging state of the lead-acid battery, the main component of the positive electrode is lead dioxide, and the main component of the negative electrode is lead; in the discharge state, the main components of the positive electrode and the negative electrode are lead sulfate and unreacted lead or lead dioxide.
The monitoring of the working state of the lead-acid battery by using the reference electrode has very important significance for the production, research and development and fault diagnosis and analysis of the lead-acid battery. The reference electrode widely used in the lead-acid battery industry at present mainly comprises Hg/Hg 2 SO 4 、Ag/Ag 2 SO 4 And a metallic cadmium electrode. Hg/Hg 2 SO 4 The electrode is widely applied to laboratory research and development of lead-acid batteries due to high stability, reliability and repeatability. Meanwhile, the popularization of the mercury-free lithium ion battery in the production and use processes of the battery is influenced due to the fact that the mercury-free lithium ion battery contains Hg element with high toxicity. Ag/Ag 2 SO 4 The electrode overcomes Hg/Hg 2 SO 4 The toxicity of the electrode is combined with Hg/Hg 2 SO 4 The stable and reliable reproducibility of the electrode is high, but due to Ag 2 SO 4 The silver sulfate has high solubility in a sulfuric acid solution, silver sulfate solid can be gradually dissolved and disappear in the using process, so that the service life of the silver sulfate solid is difficult to guarantee, and the dissolved silver ions are easy to be reduced on the negative electrode of the lead-acid battery and deposited on the surface of the negative electrode, so that the speed of hydrogen separated out from the negative electrode is accelerated, and the adverse effect is brought to the performance of the lead-acid battery. The most important advantage of the metal cadmium electrode is convenience, but the cadmium has high toxicity due to poor potential stability, so that the metal cadmium electrode has certain application only in occasions with low requirements on a reference electrode, such as the production process of a lead-acid battery.
With the global popularization of renewable energy sources, energy storage becomes necessary to overcome the intermittent problem of renewable energy sources. Electrochemical energy storage is also increasingly popularized as an important energy storage mode. The lead-acid battery is widely regarded as a mature, economic, safe, stable and reliable electrochemical system applied to the field of energy storage. But the traditional lead-acid battery is difficult to adapt to the requirements of new era energy storage on chemical power sources. In order to have economic applicability, the requirement on the cycle life of the lead-acid battery for energy storage is improved to more than 3000 times and even 6000 times, and the service life is 10-20 years, which is 2-4 times that of the traditional lead-acid battery for energy storage. In order to further exploit the potential and improve the performance of lead-acid batteries, it is necessary to fully absorb the recent achievements in other scientific and technical fields. If the lead-acid battery which is used in a rough manner in the past can be managed finely by utilizing an intelligent monitoring technology, the working state of the battery can be monitored, found and adjusted in time, and the performance and the service life of the battery can be obviously improved.
Therefore, a reference electrode that is stable, reliable, fast in response, compatible with the existing lead-acid battery industry, economical, safe, easy to miniaturize or miniaturize, and easy to install in a lead-acid battery has become a need of current research.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a lead-acid battery reference electrode, which at least solves one of the defects of the prior art.
The invention provides a lead-acid battery reference electrode which comprises an electrode and electrolyte, wherein the electrode is lead, and the electrolyte is sulfuric acid.
In one embodiment of the invention, the reference electrode is inserted into the lead acid battery and extends into the electrolyte, the reference electrode being in contact with the lead acid battery electrolyte.
In one embodiment of the invention, the reference electrode is provided with a salt bridge which is respectively communicated with the electrolyte of the reference electrode and the electrolyte of the lead-acid battery.
In one embodiment of the invention, the electrode is a lead wire or a lead plate.
In one embodiment of the invention, the reference electrode further comprises a lead wire connected with the electrode, and the upper part of the lead electrode and the lead wire are coated with an acid-resistant insulating sheath.
The invention also provides an activation method of the reference electrode, which takes the lead electrode of the reference electrode as a negative electrode and takes the positive electrode of the battery as a positive electrode for charging.
The invention also provides the reference electrode obtained by the activation method, and the reference electrode becomes a lead/lead sulfate electrode after being activated by charging.
The invention also provides application of the activated reference electrode in detecting the electromotive force of the lead-acid battery.
The invention also provides a lead-acid battery monitoring system which is provided with a lead-acid battery, a reference electrode and a potential tester; wherein: the reference electrode is a lead/lead sulfate electrode, is inserted into the lead-acid battery, extends into the sulfuric acid electrolyte, and is positioned between the negative electrode and the diaphragm; one end of the potential tester is connected with the reference electrode, and the other end is connected with the anode or the cathode of the lead-acid battery.
Further, the lead-acid battery monitoring system monitors the change of the lead-acid potential according to the display data of the potential tester.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following beneficial effects:
1. the lead-acid battery reference electrode adopts lead as an electrode and electrolyte which is the same as that of the lead-acid battery, has quick electrode activation response and good stability, can be well compatible with the existing lead-acid battery, and has the advantage of being miniaturized and assembled into the lead-acid battery;
2. the lead-acid battery reference electrode is arranged in the negative electrode area of the lead-acid battery to realize miniaturization, and convenience is provided for lead-acid battery monitoring;
3. the lead-acid battery monitoring system provided by the invention realizes the fine management of the lead-acid battery, is convenient for timely monitoring, finding and adjusting the working state of the battery, and can obviously improve the performance and service life of the battery;
4. the reference electrode is arranged in the lead-acid battery, has no obvious difference with materials for producing the lead-acid battery, and the materials containing the reference electrode and other materials for forming the battery are effectively recycled in the recovery process of the lead-acid battery, so that good economic and environmental benefits are realized.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a reference electrode of the present invention built in a lead-acid battery during operation.
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of the reference electrode of the present invention when externally mounted on a lead-acid battery.
FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of the electrode potential change during the reference electrode activation process of the present invention.
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The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
It is to be understood that the terms "upper," "lower," "leading," "trailing," "inner," "outer," and the like are used in the appended drawings to indicate orientations and positional relationships, and are used merely for convenience in describing the present invention and to simplify the description, and do not indicate or imply that the referenced device or element must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and thus are not to be considered limiting of the present invention.
It should also be noted that, unless expressly specified or limited otherwise, the terms "mounted," "connected," "secured," "disposed," and the like are to be construed broadly and encompass, for example, fixed connections as well as removable connections or integral parts; can be mechanically or electrically connected; they may be directly connected or indirectly connected through intervening media, or may be connected through one or more other components or may be in an interactive relationship with one another. It will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art that the above terms have the specific meanings given herein according to the specific circumstances.
In this embodiment, the lead-acid battery at least includes a battery unit, the battery unit has a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a middle diaphragm, and the reference electrode pair is applied to one battery unit or switched to another battery unit according to the foregoing background technology, or a plurality of reference electrodes may be provided for use respectively.
In a specific embodiment, a reference electrode is provided, wherein the reference electrode takes sulfuric acid aqueous solution as electrolyte and lead as electrode material; the activated reference electrode is a lead/lead sulfate electrode, can be used as a reference electrode of a lead-acid battery, and is used for indicating the electrode potential of the lead-acid battery when being externally connected with a potential monitor.
Specifically, in one embodiment, as shown in fig. 1, the reference electrode may be built into a lead acid battery, the reference electrode being inserted into the lead acid battery and extending into the sulfuric acid electrolyte, either the positive region or the negative region being selected to have the sulfuric acid electrolyte of the lead acid battery as the electrolyte. The battery can be compatible with the lead-acid battery by being arranged in the lead-acid battery, and has the advantage of being small and miniaturized in the lead-acid battery.
In another embodiment, the reference electrode is external, as shown in fig. 2, and the electrolyte is in communication with the electrolyte of the lead-acid battery via a salt bridge, which may be in communication with either the positive or negative regions of the lead-acid battery.
In a preferred embodiment, the reference electrode further comprises an acid-resistant insulating sheath, a conducting wire; wherein the lead electrode is connected and led out through a lead wire, and the connecting part of the lead electrode and the lead wire and part of the lead wire are protected by an acid-resistant insulating sheath and are sealed in an acid-proof way so as to prevent the lead electrode from being corroded by contacting with sulfuric acid and influencing the reading of the potential of the electrode. Part of the lead electrode is exposed and exposed, and this part is brought into contact with sulfuric acid in the battery and activated to form Pb/PbSO 4 A reference electrode. The lead sulfate is from the lead-acid battery, and the reference electrode can form Pb/PbSO with lead only by trace lead sulfate 4 A reference electrode, and lead-acid battery, the surface of the lead electrode being dissolved in trace oxygen in sulfuric acid or PbO during production 2 Oxidation and the like inevitably bring lead sulfate, and therefore lead sulfate does not need to be intentionally added to the surface of the lead electrode.
In one embodiment, when the reference electrode is embedded in the lead-acid battery for use, a thin lead wire or a lead strip can be used, and the shell sleeved outside the lead electrode and the lead-acid battery object form a plug-in structure, wherein the specific size is based on convenience in installation and disassembly.
In the scheme, in order to ensure the precision and stability of the electrode potential, the lead wire or lead strip is made of pure lead materials with the purity of more than 99.97%, and the lead wire can be a copper wire with insulation and is stably and reliably connected with the pure lead materials in a soldering tin mode. The weld needs to be tightly insulated and sealed to prevent contact with sulfuric acid. The insulating sheath can be made of PP, PE, PVC and other plastic materials which are resistant to sulfuric acid and compatible with the lead-acid battery.
In one embodiment, the above-mentioned method for activating the reference electrode is provided, for example, a reference electrode built in a lead-acid battery is taken as an example, and the reference electrode after being manufactured needs to be activated before being used after being installed in the lead-acid battery. The activation method comprises the following steps: and charging by taking the reference electrode as a negative electrode and taking a positive electrode in the battery as a positive electrode, and electrifying for 5-30 minutes at the voltage of 2.40-2.70 v, wherein the electrifying activation time is short when the voltage is high. The negative electrode can obtain uniformly and firmly combined PbSO on the surface of the lead electrode during charging 4 Depositing a layer to obtain Pb/PbSO 4 A reference electrode. The primary activation time can be longer, and the reference electrode after the activation is Pb/PbSO 4 The reference electrode, and then the reference electrode, can be brought into an operating state. The above-described process battery activation and the change in electrode potential after activation are shown in fig. 3.
In one embodiment, a lead-acid battery monitoring system is provided with a lead-acid battery, a reference electrode and a potential meter; wherein: the reference electrode is a lead/lead sulfate electrode, is inserted into the lead-acid battery, extends into the sulfuric acid electrolyte, and is positioned between the negative electrode and the diaphragm; one end of the potential tester is connected with the reference electrode, and the other end is connected with the anode or the cathode of the lead-acid battery. And monitoring the potential change of the lead-acid battery through the display data of the potential tester.
The following is Pb/PbSO activated for this scheme 4 Performance testing of the reference electrode.
1. Electrode stability
As can be seen from the trend of the potential change of the electrode after the activation and standing of the reference electrode in FIG. 3, the potential value did not change significantly within 20h after the activation, and the actual potential fluctuation value was < 1mV (not shown in FIG. 3), thereby illustrating Pb/PbSO 4 The stability of the reference electrode is high.
2. Influence of temperature on the electrodes
Activating the reference electrode, standing, forming a three-electrode system with the SCE and Pt electrodes, and testing Pb/PbSO at different temperatures 4 Change of reference electrode potential, examinationThe temperature interval is 50-90 ℃. The results were: from 50 to 70 ℃, the electrode potential is substantially invariant with temperature. The electrode potential decreases with temperature at 80 ℃ and 90 ℃ to different extents. The potential value is reduced by less than 1mV from 80 to 95 ℃ when the temperature rises by 1 ℃, which indicates that the prepared Pb/PbSO 4 The reference electrode has less influence of the temperature on the electrode potential within the temperature range of 50-90 ℃, and the electrode has better stability.
3. Potential reproducibility after multiple activations
Primary activated Pb/PbSO 4 The reference electrode is left for 20 days, then is activated again and then is left for 20 days, and the like until the fifth activation is carried out after the 100 th day, wherein the activation conditions are as follows: electrifying for 5min under 2.7V. The test results are: with the increase of the activation times, activating the Pb/PbSO within 20h 4 The potential of the reference electrode does not change greatly, and the actual potential fluctuation value is less than 1mV.
From the test results, the reference electrode provided by the scheme has the advantages of quick activation response, good stability, compatibility with the conventional lead-acid battery and wide application prospect for being arranged in the lead-acid battery in a small and miniature manner.
Although embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described, it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that changes, modifications, substitutions and alterations can be made in these embodiments without departing from the principles and spirit of the invention, the scope of which is defined in the appended claims and their equivalents.

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1. The lead-acid battery reference electrode comprises an electrode and electrolyte, and is characterized in that the electrode is lead, and the electrolyte is sulfuric acid.
2. The reference electrode of claim 1, wherein the reference electrode is inserted into a lead acid battery and extends into the electrolyte, the reference electrode being in contact with the lead acid battery electrolyte.
3. The reference electrode of claim 1, wherein a salt bridge is provided to communicate the electrolyte of the reference electrode with the electrolyte of the lead-acid battery, respectively.
4. The reference electrode of claim 1, wherein the electrode is a lead wire or strip.
5. The reference electrode of claim 1, further comprising a lead wire connected to the electrode, wherein the upper portion of the lead electrode and the lead wire are coated with an acid-resistant insulating sheath.
6. The method for activating a reference electrode according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the reference electrode is charged with a lead electrode as a negative electrode and a positive electrode as a positive electrode.
7. The reference electrode obtained by the activation method according to claim 6, which is a lead/lead sulfate electrode.
8. Use of the reference electrode of claim 7 for detecting the electromotive force of a lead-acid battery.
9. The lead-acid battery monitoring system is provided with a lead-acid battery, a reference electrode and a potential tester; the reference electrode is a lead/lead sulfate electrode, is inserted into the lead-acid battery, extends into the sulfuric acid electrolyte, and is positioned between the negative electrode and the diaphragm; one end of the potential tester is connected with the reference electrode, and the other end is connected with the anode or the cathode of the lead-acid battery.
10. The lead acid battery monitoring system of claim 9, wherein battery potential changes are monitored from the display data of the potentiometers.
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