Lead-Acid Battery Technologies ─ Fundamentals, Materials, and Applications

Lead-Acid Battery Technologies: Fundamentals, Materials, and Applications offers a systematic and state-of-the-art overview of the materials, system design, and related issues for the development of lead-acid rechargeable battery technologies. Featuring contributions from leading scientists and engineers in industry and academia, this book:

• Describes the underlying science involved in the operation of lead-acid batteries
• Highlights advances in materials science and engineering for materials fabrication
• Delivers a detailed discussion of the mathematical modeling of lead-acid batteries
• Analyzes the integration of lead-acid batteries with other primary power systems
• Explores emerging applications such as electric bicycles and microhybrid vehicles

Lead-Acid Battery Technologies: Fundamentals, Materials, and Applications provides researchers, students, industrial professionals, and manufacturers with valuable insight into the latest theories, experimental methodologies, and research achievements in lead-acid battery technologies.

Joey Jung is the founder and president of EVT Power, Inc., Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and the operations manager of Kemetco Research, Inc., Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. A registered professional engineer with more than 15 years of R&D experience in applied electrochemistry and electrochemical engineering, Mr. Jung has served as the vice president and chief technology officer of Power Technology, Inc., Houston, Texas, USA; principal scientist at MagPower Systems, Inc., White Rock, British Columbia, Canada; and research officer at BC Research, Inc., Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. Widely published, he holds a MASc from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, as well as 11 U.S. patents/patent applications.

Lei Zhang holds a B.Sc and M.Sc from Wuhan University, China, and a second M.Sc from Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. She is currently a research council officer at the National Research Council, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and an adjunct professor of the Federal University of Maranhao, Brazil and Zhengzhou University, China. Previously, she served as a research scientist at Membrane Reactor Technologies, Inc., Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Ms. Zhang holds three U.S. patent applications and has coauthored more than 100 refereed journal papers with 5000+ citations, 30 conference and invited keynote presentations, one book chapter, two books, and 40 industrial technical reports.

Jiujun Zhang is a principal research officer at the National Research Council, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and a fellow of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE). He earned a B.Sc and M.Sc from Peking University, Beijing, China, and a Ph.D from Wuhan University, China. He carried out three terms of postdoctoral research at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA; York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Dr. Zhang holds 10 adjunct professorships, has 400+ publications with more than 12,000 citations, and serves as editor or editorial board member for several international journals as well as the CRC Press book series on electrochemical energy storage and conversion.