Energy Storage, 2nd Edition

Index

• Acceleration, 20
• Activity coefficients, 98, 190, 191, 193, 197
• Adsorption, 107–112
• Age of universe, 31
• Amp.hour, 31
• Anode, 72
• Area capacity, 31

• Baryon-7, 32
• Batteries, 4–6, 290
  • for bulk storage, 86–87
  • history of, 307–309
  • inherent failure mechanisms of, 73
  • initial survey, 311–312
  • for portable or electric vehicle use, 87
  • problems with, 72–74
  • research path, long-life high ED battery, 312–322
• Big Bang nucleosynthesis, 1, 32
• Biofuels, 7
• Biological energy storage, 6, 7
• Biomass, 10
• Bipolar electrodes, cell arrays, 231
• Bond energies, 35
• British thermal unit (Btu), 2

• Capacitance, 29, 274
• Carbon conductor electrode pore, 185
• Carbon-polymer composite electrodes, 233–237
  • cell spacing, 236–237
  • metal to carbon resistance, 235–236
  • particle shapes and sizes, 235
• Cathodes, 72
• Cell design considerations
  • carbon-polymer composite electrodes, 233–237
  • diffusion and reaction rates, 227
  • electrodes, 228–229
  • electrolytes and membranes, 239–240
  • energy and power density, 240–244
  • imbalance considerations, 244
  • overcharging effects, 244
  • physical spacing in, 229–232
  • test cells, resistance measurements, 237–239
• Cell dynamics, 186–198
  • electrode processes analyses, 186
  • polymeric number change, 186–198
• Cell imbalance, 86
• Cell potential, 303
• Cell resistance vs. electrode separation, 238
• Ceramic or glassy electrolytes, 272
• Charge retention, 132
• “Charging” process, 119
• Chemical energy, 1, 31–38
  • breaking and forming, chemical bonds, 35–36
  • chemical vs. electrochemical reactions, 36–37
  • hydrogen, ...