Open AccessPreparation and Electrochemical Characterization of Aluminium Liquid Battery Cells With Two Different Electrolytes (NaCl-BaCl2-AlF3-NaF and LiF-AlF3-BaF2)
Author(s) -
Viktor Napast,
Jože Moškon,
Marko Homšak,
Aljana Petek,
Miran Gaberšček
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
acta chimica slovenica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.289
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1580-3155
pISSN - 1318-0207
DOI - 10.17344/acsi.2015.1516
Subject(s) - electrolyte , aluminium , battery (electricity) , electrochemistry , electrode , evaporation , solubility , salt (chemistry) , materials science , electrochemical cell , inorganic chemistry , chemical engineering , chemistry , metallurgy , analytical chemistry (journal) , chromatography , organic chemistry , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics , engineering , thermodynamics
The possibility of preparation of operating rechargeable liquid battery cells based on aluminium and its alloys is systematically checked. In all cases we started from aluminium as the negative electrode whereas as the positive electrode three different metals were tested: Pb, Bi and Sn. Two types of electrolytes were selected: Na(3)AlF(6) -AlF(3) - BaCl(2) - NaCl and Li(3)AlF(3) - BaF(2). We show that some of these combinations allowed efficient separation of individual liquid layers. The cells exhibited expected voltages, relatively high current densities and could be charged and discharged several times. The capacities were relatively low (120 mAh in the case of Al-Pb system), mostly due to unoptimised cell construction. Improvements in various directions are possible, especially by hermetically sealing the cells thus preventing salt evaporation. Similarly, solubility of aluminium in alloys can be increased by optimising the composition of positive electrode.