Lamella settler crystallizer
A crystallizer is described which incorporates a lamella settler and which is particularly applicable for use in batteries and power cells for electric vehicles or stationary applications. The lamella settler can be utilized for coarse particle separation or for agglomeration, and is particularly applicable to aluminum-air batteries or power cells for solving the hydrargillite (aluminum-hydroxide) removal problems from such batteries. This invention provides the advantages of very low energy consumption, turbulence, shear, cost and maintenance. Thus, due to the low shear and low turbulence of this invention, it is particularly effective in the control of aluminum hydroxide particle size distribution in the various sections of an aluminum-air system, as well as in other electrochemical systems requiring separation for phases of different densities. 3 figs.
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-48
- Assignee:
- Dept. of Energy, Washington, DC (United States)
- Patent Number(s):
- A; US 4978509
- Application Number:
- PPN: US 7-120448
- OSTI ID:
- 7075377
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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250903* -- Energy Storage-- Batteries-- Materials
Components
& Auxiliaries
ALUMINIUM COMPOUNDS
ALUMINIUM HYDROXIDES
ALUMINIUM-AIR BATTERIES
CRYSTALLIZATION
DESIGN
ELECTRIC BATTERIES
ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
HYDROXIDES
METAL-GAS BATTERIES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS
SEPARATION EQUIPMENT