Metal-halogen secondary battery system

• US 4,321,312 A
• Filed: 11/10/1980
• Issued: 03/23/1982
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/1979
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Meidensha Electric Manufacturing Company Limited (Meidensha Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Meidensha Electric Manufacturing Company Limited (Meidensha Corporation)
• Inventors: Hirose, Takashi, Fujii, Toshinobu, Kondo, Naoki
• Primary Examiner(s): Walton, Donald L.
• Application Number:
  US06/205,093
• Time in Patent Office: 498 Days
• Field of Search: 429/12, 429/13, 429/14, 429/15, 429/17, 429/19, 429/34, 429/41, 429/49, 429/50, 429/51, 429/52, 429/101, 429/105
• US Class Current: 429/49
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/365 Zinc-halogen accumulators
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/42 Methods or arrangements for servicing or maintenance of secondary cells or secondary half-cells H01M10/60 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 70/50 Manufacturing or production processes characterised by the final manufactured product

Abstract

A metal-halogen secondary battery system having electrolyte circulating lines for its positive and negative plate galvanic reaction chambers, further incorporates in the electrolyte circulating lines cleaning lines and a deionized line circulating line including a positive plate galvanic reaction chamber cleaning solution tank, a negative plate galvanic reaction chamber cleaning solution tank, a deionized water tank, a cleaning solution discharge pipe and a plurality of pipes and on-off valves for connecting and opening and closing the tanks and the discharge pipe, thereby making circulation cleaning of the reaction chambers possible and ensuring restoration of the battery characteristics and longer battery life.

Claims

1. A metal-halogen secondary battery system comprising:

a positive plate electrolyte circulating line including a positive plate electrolyte tank and a first pump for circulating a positive plate electrolyte into at least one positive plate galvanic reaction chamber;

a negative plate electrolyte circulating line including a negative plate electrolyte tank and a second pump for circulating a negative plate electrolyte into at least one negative plate galvanic reaction chamber;

an electrolyte discharge pipe line connected to each of said positive and negative plate galvanic reaction chambers through a discharging on-off valve so as to discharge said positive and negative plate electrolytes in said positive and negative plate galvanic reaction chambers to the outside of said electrolyte circulating lines;

a positive plate galvanic reaction chamber cleaning line established by connecting, in place of said positive plate electrolyte tank, a positive plate galvanic reaction chamber cleaning solution tank to said positive plate galvanic reaction chamber through said first pump and first change-over on-off valve means;

a negative plate galvanic reaction chamber cleaning line established by connecting, in place of said negative plate electrolyte tank, a negative plate galvanic reaction chamber cleaning solution tank to said negative plate galvanic reaction chamber through said second pump and second change-over on-off valve means;

a deionized water circulating line established by connecting a deionized water tank to said cleaning line through connecting on-off valves so as to circulate deionized water instead of said cleaning solutions through said cleaning lines; and

a cleaning solution discharge pipe line connected to said cleaning line through a third discharging on-off valve so as to discharge said cleaning solutions or said deionized water existing in said cleaning lines to the outside thereof.

2. A system according to claim 1, wherein said positive and negative electrolyte tanks are respectively connected through fourth and fifth discharging on-off valves to said electrolyte discharge pipe line.

3. A system according to claim 1, wherein said first change-over on-off valve means of said positive plate galvanic reaction chamber cleaning line includes a first on-off valve for changing the connection of said positive plate galvanic reaction chamber from said positive electrolyte tank to said positive plate galvanic reaction chamber cleaning solution tank, and a second on-off valve for changing the connection of said first pump from said positive plate electrolyte tank to said positive plate galvanic reaction chamber cleaning solution tank.

4. A system according to claim 1, wherein said second change-over on-off valve means of said negative plate galvanic reaction chamber cleaning line includes a third on-off valve for changing the connection of said negative plate galvanic reaction chamber from said negative plate electrolyte tank to said negative plate galvanic reaction chamber cleaning solution tank, and a fourth on-off valve for changing the connection of said second pump from said negative plate electrolyte tank to said negative plate galvanic reaction chamber cleaning solution tank.

5. A system according to claim 3 or 4, wherein another connecting on-off valve is provided at each of the input and output ends of said deionized water tank.

6. A system according to claim 1, wherein said first-mentioned connecting on-off valves of said ionized water circulating line are each provided in one of two pipes connecting said positive plate galvanic reaction chamber cleaning line and said negative plate galvanic reaction chamber cleaning line with each other.

7. A system according to claim 6, wherein still another connecting on-off valve is provided at each of the input and output ends of each of said positive plate galvanic reaction chamber cleaning solution tank and said negative plate galvanic reaction chamber cleaning solution tank.