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Jinan, there has been a breakthrough in electric bicycles to retain 1.3 million, 400,000-year phase-out used batteries group, of which 80% of the lead-acid batteries. Waste lead-acid batteriesVGP-BPS9A,  VGP-BPS9A/B,  vgp-bps13 ,  vgp-bps13/s  , vgp-bps13a/b  vgp-bps13b/b, by the State as “hazardous waste”, need to focus on recovery, fixed-point processing. However, interviews with this reporter recently discovered that in Jinan, waste lead-acid battery recycling link “fragmentation”, dealing with links is missing. Environmentalists said that in this case, the electric car is environmentally friendly, “illusory.”

Electric vehicles rely on “green” popular

“Can you hurry to install, I am in a hurry.” Liberation of the bridge in the vicinity of an electric vehicle outlets, such as urging the sound of the mouth from time to time came from a variety of customers, while the installation of work from the work started, had never stopped. 
An electric car shop, said Mr. Chang, the electric car is not only “green” zero emission, using them is also affordable, “pay 1 yuan a day as long as the charge fee, you can run 50 kilometers, and if a car burning oil, spent at least three to four times higher. ”

It is understood that electric car ownership in Jinan has exceeded 1.3 million, the amount of my tenure is close to 100 million, with an average of every four households have a home in electric vehicles. But also in the global financial crisis, the backdrop, this year 1 to 8 months, China’s electrical output of 4.455 million vehicles, an increase of 8.7%.

“Green” the other side of the “killer” 

 ” ‘Green’ the other side is the ‘killer’.” Shandong large waste recycling company — Qingdao Xintiandi technical engineer Xu-Guang Gao said that at present more than 80% of the electric vehicle batteries are lead-acid batteries, this battery is States as “hazardous waste”, need to focus on recycling, on-site treatment, but the current situation is recycling “their own thing” to deal with chaos.

    Mr. Zhang introduced electric vehicle battery life up to 3 years, Jinan at least 40 million units per year batteries have been eliminated, there are two channels out of the battery after the diversion is to a regular store, “trade-in”, and the other is Let the maintenance check and accept to go.

    “As far as I know, received the battery was gone and some have been refurbished to return to the market, there has been delegated to a number of small lead battery808 smelter deal with.” Xu-Guang Gao said, but almost all of these small treatment plants do not handle hazardous waste operating license permits them to recover the battery is to lead smelting.

Buy-back can lead to pollution of waste batteries

    In E. Rd an electric vehicle repair line, the reporter met Mr. Liu to come to buy scrap batteries, he said, a group of battery recycling prices generally between 120-140 yuan, he sold the salvage station after the acquisition, collection stations then sold it Jining, Shandong, Anhui, Zhejiang and other places lead smelter.

    “Battery very heavy very heavy, most of which are sulfuric acid, in order to reduce freight costs, they fell in Jinan sulfuric acid directly to the urban fringe.” Mr. Liu said that it would pollute water, soil and atmosphere, the whole process and ultimately lead spill.

    According to Jinan City Environmental Sanitation Bureau of the person in charge to Mr. Jing, leaded waste is against the recall. It is understood that ordinary clothing can be 2-3 grams of lead poisoning, 50 grams can cause death.

Shandong few qualified waste battery treatment sites

    “As far as I know, so far, Jinan difficult to find even one qualified scrap battery recycling, processing enterprise.” Jinan Western materials recycling companies relevant person in charge, Mr. Niu said. And the high kyoko said “the whole of Shandong had not a few.” In Beijing, there are two lead-acid battery collection, disposal and use of qualified enterprises.

    According to Jinan Environmental Protection Bureau, Mr. Sun Wu Kong Department briefing, although a lot of the community to establish collection points for batteries, but the movement of the recovered is not clear. According to reports, dry batteries contain heavy metals cadmium, lead, mercury, nickel, zinc, manganese, etc., in which cadmium, lead, mercury is a great harm to human body substances.

    “I think after the Government should build more qualified collection, processing point, but more important is the development of pollution in a small lithium battery, replace lead-acid wholesale electronics batteries with lithium batteries.” Mr. Zhang said that it had been on the market in Jinan Many lithium battery electric vehicles, but the price more than 30% higher

Quality Control

Since the battery technology is not particularly new or external, quality control, as a result, especially as an important basis for brand competition. Consciously resist the IBM ThinkPad T60 battery，IBM FRU 92P1141 battery， IBM ThinkPad R32 batterycorrosion of the battery, in order to work under different conditions, and in order to get a good shelf life and use, as well as other factors, a direct result of quality control of mold. Batteries and accessories inspection and testing during the production process at all stages of the rapid completion of a number of rigorous tests.

Environment

The same time, the battery also put forward a number of environmental obstacles are not insurmountable. Zinc, manganese and alkaline batteries, the main chemical substances, rather than environmental issues are considered to be the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) safety. The main potential pollutants in the battery, zinc and mercury is often accompanied by many years, and joined the alkaline batteries, electrical conductivity and help to prevent corrosion. Included in the mid-80s, 5 to 7 percent of mercury, mainly in alkaline batteries.

Facts have proved that a few years ago, Das mercury threats to the environment, manufacturers began to seek production is not he looking for an effective battery. Death to do the primary means to better control of composition purity of focus. Today’s alkaline batteries containing about, 025 per cent of mercury. In addition to the mercury-free batteries, all (there is a natural element, therefore Das difficulties, will be a trace of free guarantee product quality) available from the manufacturer and some of the rules for the entire industry, rather than exemption until the end of 1993.

The battery is the current scientists and engineers from around the world the focus of intense investigation. The reason is simple: a significant amount of innovation depends on creating a better battery. Viable electric vehicles and portable electronic equipment, for a long time operation, but has been charged, moderate to wait for more powerful batteries that can be developed. A typical lead-acid batteries currently used in cars, for example, is too bulky and can not save enough electricity will be used in electric vehicles. Lithium batteries, light weight, powerful process that can easily leak fire.

The design was announced in early 1993, scientists at Arizona State University, she Das dissolution of polypropylene and polyethylene oxide in lithium salt solution oxide, electrolytes wholesale electronics new classes have. Seems typical of the new electrolyte conductivity and stability than the lithium electrolyte, the researchers are currently trying to establish a prototype battery life prospects of substances.

In the meantime, some manufacturers are developing larger, more powerful computer for portable use nickel-metal hydride batteries. The new battery will be published at the end of 1994.

Advanced lithium-ion battery maker EnerDel will enter the utility-scale energy storage market, supplying batteries for a major new smart grid program announced yesterday by the US Department of Energy.  VGP-BPS9/B, VGP-BPS9/S, VGP-BPS9A, VGP-BPS9A/B,  EnerDel will build the batteries for five one-megawatt power systems that will be used by Portland General Electric (PGE) - a pioneer in smart grid technology deployment — to help manage peak demand and smooth the variations in power from renewable sources like wind and solar.

“Energy storage is a key component of the smart grid, as well as a crucial tool for enhancing both the reliability and the availability of renewable but often intermittent energy sources like wind and solar,” said Cyrus Ashtiani, Chief Technology Officer at EnerDel. “We expect this sector to be a major growth area for the battery industry. This program is a breakthrough opportunity for EnerDel to prove the capabilities of our systems in partnership with one of the most innovative electric utilities in the country.”

Each of the five EnerDel battery systems will store enough energy to power roughly 400 average American homes simultaneously for up to an hour at a time utilizing the same core chemistry as the EnerDel batteries designed for the emerging new generation of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. The new systems will be used in concert with a variety of both hardware and software solutions to improve system reliability during peak demand loads.

The PGE project will be built in Salem, OR, where it will serve both residential and commercial customers. Equipment will be installed at 15 sites over the next two years, after which developers will spend two to three years testing system performance under wide variety of geographic and meteorological conditions. It is one of 16 announced by DOE, which is providing half the $178 million funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the federal stimulus package enacted in February. The balance will come from utilities and other participants. Overall, the Northwest regional program will serve up to 60,000 utility customers in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming.

EnerDel is part of Ener1, Inc. (Nasdaq: HEV - News). Based in Indianapolis, IN, the company has one of the most advanced lithium-ion battery manufacturing facilities in the world, and the only one of its kind in the United States.

About Ener1, Inc.:

Ener1 develops and manufactures compact, high performance lithium-ion batteries to power the next generation of hybrid, plug-in hybrid and pure electric vehicles. VGP-BPS8, VGP-BPS8A, VGP-BPS8BThe publicly traded company (NASDAQ: HEV - News) is led by an experienced team of engineers and energy system experts at its EnerDel subsidiary located in Indiana. In addition to the automobile market, applications for Ener1 lithium-ion battery technology include the military, grid storage and other growing markets. Ener1 also develops commercial fuel cell products through its EnerFuel subsidiary and nanotechnology-based materials and manufacturing processes for batteries and other applications through its NanoEner subsidiary.

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