BATTERY REGENERATION
Batteries for commercial vehicles are very expensive items. Fleet operators must aim to achieve maximum battery life to keep cost per mile to a minimum.
This is why BATCURE is proving to be a major benefit to transport operators.
BATCURE is a new and innovative product which effectively tackles the problem of Battery Sulphation. Every transport operator and other users of Commercial and Traction Batteries will be aware of sulphation. The problem is inherent in the design of lead acid batteries and gradually leads reduced efficiency and eventual failure.
BATCURE offers the opportunity to remove sulphation and extend battery life.
It is not a magic wand instant cure, unlike claims made for other products. There is a planned procedure to follow to identify cell problems and ensure that time and money is not wasted trying to revive dead batteries. However, at the end of the procedure you will have a battery back on the road that would otherwise have been on the scrapheap.
BATCURE also provides an important preventative function when used with new batteries.
Answers to BATCURE FAQ's are listed below. To see the Battery Regeneration Procedure please follow the link at the end of the FAQ's.
If you need more information, please contact us by phone or e-mail.
Your enquiries are always welcome.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT BATCURE:
1 What is sulfation?
Answer: Lead acid batteries use sulfuric acid as an electrolyte for conducting soluble ions between positive and negative plates. Soluble sulfate ions in electrolyte play the role of a transporter and help to mobilize oxygen and hydrogen during charge/discharge reaction. When the battery is externally connected and some load is applied, the battery supplies the power. During the power generation process, sulfate ions from electrolyte react with battery plates and convert into lead sulfate. The loss of soluble sulfate ions from electrolyte and simultaneous formation of insoluble lead sulfate salt is generally known as sulfation process.
There cannot be power generation from a lead acid battery unless there is sulfation.
2 What is de-sulfation?
Answer: When a battery is externally connected to battery charging machine, the dc current is pumped into the battery. The incoming dc current reacts with insoluble lead sulfate salt and breaks it into lead and sulfate ions. The freshly regenerated lead remains on the plates while sulfate ions go back into the electrolyte. The process of electrically breaking of insoluble lead sulfate salt into spongy lead and sulfate ions is known as desulfation.
There cannot be power storage into the battery unless there is desulfation.
3 What is irreversible de-sulfation?
Answer: Irreversible de-sulfation is a condition of a battery plates when dc current pumped into the battery cannot BREAK lead sulfate into lead and sulfate ions.
4 How irreversible desulfation develops?
Answer: When insoluble lead sulfate salt on battery plates begins to turn into macro crystal from micro crystal stage, irreversible desulfation develops. Any physical condition or chemical additive that helps to promote macro crystallization of lead sulfate generates irreversible desulfation.
5 What are the physical conditions that promote irreversible desulfation?
Answer: For irreversible desulfation lead sulfate crystallization process to develop, it is the concentration of lead sulfate that deposits on the battery plates. During deep discharge the lead sulfate concentration is highest on battery plates. If highly concentrated lead sulfate salts allowed to sit on the plates for a longer time, the macro crystallization process is initiated. The internal and external temperature also assists into macrocrstalisation. The battery plate structure also found to assist in macro crystallization.
6 What are the chemicals that promote irreversible desulfation?
Answer: Some of the alloying metal additives in positive plates, when leached out into electrolyte, promote irreversible desulfation. Impurities from electrolyte and low concentration of acid in discharged battery helps to promote irreversible desulfation. Another source of chemicals that are found to promote irreversible desulfation is from separators. Antistatic/antioxidants oils/additives that are used for manufacture of separators leach out of separators and greatly enhance the irreversible desulfation.
7 Can there be irreversible desulfation lead sulfate in a new battery?
Answer: Yes, your new battery is NEVER 100% FREE from irreversible desulfation lead sulfate crystals.
8 How can there be irreversible desulfation crystal in a new battery?
Answer: The battery plate manufacturing process does not have 100% guaranteed system that can produce plates free from irreversible desulfation crystals. Even the dry charged plates have tendency to absorb oxygen and moisture from atmosphere to form irreversible desulfation crystals.
9 How do I know that my battery has started picking up irreversible desulfation?
Answer: Whenever you discharge a fully charged battery and find that your battery is not as per battery capacity rating then it confirms that battery has started to pick up irreversible desulfation. The less power back from the battery then its original capacity is strong indication of irreversible desulfation.
10 How do I protect my new, in service or irreversibly desulfated batteries?
Answer: Please see BATCURE REGENERATION PROCEDURE. Just follow the link below.
