Batteries: thermoelectric and photoelectric – Thermoelectric – Radiation pyrometer
Patent
1975-08-20
1976-06-29
Skapars, Anthony
Batteries: thermoelectric and photoelectric
Thermoelectric
Radiation pyrometer
136100R, H01M 4300
Patent
active
039664929
ABSTRACT:
An improved secondary battery or cell of the type having: (A) one or more anodic reaction zones containing a molten alkali metal reactant-anode in electrical contact with an external circuit; (B) one or more cathodic reaction zones containing (1) a cathodic reactant which, when said battery or cell is at least partially discharged, is selected from the group consisting of (i) a single phase composition comprising molten polysulfide salts of said anodic reactant and (ii) a two phase composition comprising molten sulfur and molten sulfur saturated polysulfide salts of said anodic reactant and (2) an electrode of porous conductive material which is at least partially filled with said cathodic reactant; and (C) a cation-permeable barrier to mass liquid transfer interposed between and in contact with said anodic and cathodic reaction zones, said porous conductive material being in electrical contact with both said cation-permeable barrier and an external circuit. The improvement comprises: (a) employing a porous conductive material which will wick both sulfur and alkali metal polysulfides and which, in different regions of said cathodic reaction zone exhibits different degrees of wettability by said alkali metal polysulfides, said material in a region adjacent to said cation-permeable barrier being more readily wetted by said polysulfides than is said material in a region further removed from said barrier such that sulfur will boil near said barrier and condense away from it; (b) disposing said porous conductive material within said cathodic reaction zone such that it forms and encloses one or more channels which extend from said region adjacent said cation-permeable barrier outwardly into said region of said cathodic reaction zone which is further removed from said barrier; and (c) maintaining the amount of molten cathodic reactant within said cathodic reaction zone such that said channels remain free of said molten reactant and are thus adapted to transport sulfur vapor.
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Ford Motor Company
May Roger L.
Skapars Anthony
Zerschling Keith L.
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