GB2023558A - Process for the Production of Electrochemically Active Lead Dioxide - Google Patents

Process for the Production of Electrochemically Active Lead Dioxide Download PDF

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GB2023558A
GB2023558A GB7919642A GB7919642A GB2023558A GB 2023558 A GB2023558 A GB 2023558A GB 7919642 A GB7919642 A GB 7919642A GB 7919642 A GB7919642 A GB 7919642A GB 2023558 A GB2023558 A GB 2023558A
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    • HELECTRICITY
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Abstract

Electrochemically active lead dioxide is produced by forming an aqueous suspension of an oxidizable lead substrate, adjusting its pH to a value in the alkaline range between about 10 and 14, and then oxidising with gaseous ozone. The pH value is preferably held constant during the oxidation treatment, by adding alkali or by buffering, and the oxidation treatment is preferably carried out at an elevated temperature of about 70 to 80 DEG C. Finely divided or dissolved inoculating metals may be added to the suspension, when a corresponding inoculation is desired for the electrochemical use of the resulting lead dioxide. Finely divided inert substances, such as carbon, glass or plastics in powder or fibre form, may be added to the suspension, in order to make a lead dioxide which can be compressed to a mass of high strength for use in an accumulator or the like.

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SPECIFICATION Process for the Production of Electrochemically Active Lead Dioxide This invention relates to a process for the production of electrochemically active lead dioxide, in which an aqueous suspension is formed from an oxidizable lead substrate and subjected to an oxidation treatment with an oxdizing agent. The fact that an aqueous suspension is used implies that the oxidizable lead substrate is taken in a finely or very finely divided form. Within the scope of the known art (as practised) the oxidizable divalent lead substrate is minimum and the oxidizing agent nitric acid. The specific electrochemical activity of the resulting lead dioxide (in mWh/g) could be very substantially improved. Lead dioxide made in this way is used very little for electrochemical purposes.
In the production of another electrochemically active metal oxide, viz., in the production of manganese dioxide, it is known to use ozone as the oxidizing agent (see German Patent Specification No. 24 19 490). In this case, lowvalency manganese oxides are converted, by disproportionation with a halogen peroxy-acid, notably perchloric acid, into quadrivalent manganese and soluble divalent manganese, and the manganese oxides are treated with ozone simultaneously with their treatment with the peroxy-acid or mixture of peroxy-acids. The process leads to high electrochemical activities.
However, the known processes for the production of manganese dioxide cannot be applied to the production of electrochemically active lead dioxide. It has been shown in fact that there is no directly possible method for the simple oxidative precipitation of lead dioxide from its aqueous divalent salt solutions. The soluble divalent lead salts of strong acids (nitric or perchloric acids for example) cannot be oxidized to lead dioxide with ozone. Exceptionally, aqueous solutions of divalent lead acetate in the pH range 3 to 4 precipitate a dark brown to black lead oxide when ozone is introduced. This lead dioxide is inactive, in contrast to manganese dioxide which precipitates in the active form from solutions of practically all divalent salts treated by the known process.Attempts to activate the lead dioxide phase precipitated with ozone from soluble divalent lead salts, by subsequent treatment with sulphuric acid in an electrochemical system, have proved unsuccessful. The electrochemical capacity or activity of the resulting lead dioxide is virtually zero. Again, attempts to precipitate active lead dioxide mixed with manganese dioxide in various molar ratios have produced no satisfactory results.
Different procedures are used in accumulator production practice. Nevertheless the formation of active lead dioxide masses in this case remains a problem which has not yet been satisfactorily solved. Positive masses consisting of more or less oxidized lead dusts are agitated with sulphuric acid and applied to the accumulator plates in dry or paste form, depending on the plate lattice geometry. The masses must then be "matured" and mechanically strengthened under quite specific conditions, so that the pasted plates will no longer lose their mass during subsequent treatment. The originally divalent lead masses are then oxidized by a wet process which is neither technologically satisfactory nor desirable from the environmental protection viewpoint.Thus, the filled electrodes are placed in sulphuric-acid forming cells and oxidized, i.e., charged, by various procedures which are time-consuming and always involve low initial current densities.
The wet formation stage in every accumulator manufacturing process is undesirable and involves major measures to protect the environment, because of the accompanying evaporation.
In this context, the object of the invention is to produce electrochemically active lead dioxide by simple means from an aqueous suspension of an oxidizable lead substrate. The more particular object of the invention, with reference to accumulator production, is also to be seen in the avoidance of the technically undesirable wet formation stage in electrode manufacture.
According to the present invention, in a process for the production of electrochemically active lead dioxide, in which an aqueous suspension is formed from an oxidizable lead substrate and subjected to an oxidation treatment with an oxidizing agent, the suspension is formed from a lead substrate insoluble in aqueous solution, its pH is adjusted to a value in the alkaline range between about 10 and 14, and the oxidation treatment is carried out with gaseous ozone. A divalent lead substrate is preferably used, though it is also possible to use metallic lead and a compound such as Pb304, i.e., a divalent-quadrivalent lead substrate. In one preferred embodiment, the pH value is held constant during the oxidation treatment, by adding alkali or by buffering.At moderate pH values in the quoted range of 10 to 14, the reaction proceeds particularly well, in general and also with reference to activity. The oxidation treatment is preferably carried out at elevated temperatures of 70 to 800C for example. It is within the scope of the invention to include finely divided inoculating metals in the suspension, when a corresponding inoculation is desired for the electrochemical use of the resulting lead dioxide. It is also within the scope of the invention to add to the suspension finely divided inert substances, such as carbon, glass or plastics in powder or fibre form, in order to make a lead dioxide which can be compressed to a mass of high strength for use in an accumulator or the like.
Many substances fall within the scope of the invention as the oxidizable lead substrate. In particular, mention should be made of lead carbonate, insoluble lead halides such as PbF2 and PbCl2, lead sulphide and divalent lead oxide.
However, minimum can also be used as the lead substrate. Moreover, it is surprisingly possible as already mentioned to use metallic lead in the form of sponge, dust or powder as the substrate,-but in one preferred embodiment of the invention the lead substrate consists of lead sulphate, PbSO4.
Taking lead sulphate as an example, the formula for the conversion reads:
In this case, the pH value changes continuously from its original level to lower, i.e., more acid values. This explains why one preferred embodiment of the invention is characterised in keeping the pH value constant during the oxidation treatment by adding alkali or by buffering. The elevated temperatures already referred to are used because the intermediate solubility of the lead substrate increases as the temperature is raised. When inoculation is used, the foreign metals can be added in the form of complex ions or other soluble compounds. The most important inoculating metals are antimony, bismuth, thallium, silicon, titanium, silver, mercury, nickel, cobalt, calcium, strontium, barium and manganese.If finely divided inert substances are included in the suspension, it is also possible that these inert substances become as it were coated with the lead dioxide, particularly when carbon or glass is used as the inert substance.
The invention will now be described in more detail with reference to an example based on the use of PbSO4 as the oxidizable substrate: A slurry is made of 50 9 PbSO4 in 500 ml water. Its pH is then adjusted to 1 1 with drops of dilute KOH. It is heated to 800C and technical ozone is fed into the reaction mixture. The originally white suspension rapidly turns brown and eventually black. The pH is kept constant at 11 by monitoring with a pH-meter and continuously adding more dilute caustic potash.
After ozoning for 2 hours (at ca. 101/h), the solid reaction product is filtered off, washed and dried in a vacuum cupboard at 700C. The PbO2 made in this way can be used directly as the positive mass in an accumulator electrode, for example in the form of a slender tube. This constitutes a particular advantage of the invention, in that the wet formation stage hitherto usual in the manufacture of accumulator electrodes is avoided. The residual mother liquor contains caustic potash and potassium sulphate and can be recycled for the treatment of more divalent lead sulphate.

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1. A process for the production of electrochemically active lead dioxide, in which an aqueous suspension is formed from an oxidizable lead substrate and subjected to an oxidation treatment with an oxidizing agent, the suspension being formed from a lead substrate insoluble in aqueous solution, its pH being adjusted to a value in the alkaline range between about 10 and 14, and the oxidation treatment being carried out with gaseous ozone.
2. A process as in Claim 1, wherein the pH value is held constant during the oxidation treatment, by adding alkali or by buffering.
3. A process as in either of Claims 1 and 2, wherein the oxidation treatment is carried out at an elevated temperature of about 70 to 800C.
4. A process as in any one of Claims 1 to 3, wherein finely divided or dissolved inoculating metals are added to the suspension.
5. A process as in any one of Claims 1 to 4, wherein finely divided inert substances are added to the suspension.
6. A process substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to the example.
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GB2137603A (en) * 1983-04-05 1984-10-10 St Joe Minerals Corp Method for the preparation of high surface area lead oxide composition
US4507855A (en) * 1982-08-06 1985-04-02 United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority Lead acid electric storage cell and a positive electrode therefor
US4508147A (en) * 1982-03-22 1985-04-02 United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority Method of manufacturing a positive electrode for a lead acid electric storage cell
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US4508147A (en) * 1982-03-22 1985-04-02 United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority Method of manufacturing a positive electrode for a lead acid electric storage cell
US4507855A (en) * 1982-08-06 1985-04-02 United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority Lead acid electric storage cell and a positive electrode therefor
GB2137603A (en) * 1983-04-05 1984-10-10 St Joe Minerals Corp Method for the preparation of high surface area lead oxide composition
WO2002071511A2 (en) * 2001-02-06 2002-09-12 Rsr Technologies, Inc. Method for enhancing lead oxidation during production of lead acid batteries
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