Handbook of Batteries (2001, Hardcover, Subsequent Edition)

Smaller, lighter, more powerful and longer-lasting batteries are necessities in the increasingly portable, ever-more-wireless world of laptops, handhelds, cell phones, medical devices, and other modern necessities. Edited by battery experts David Linden, battery consultant and editor of the first two editions, and Dr. Thomas Reddy, a pioneer in the lithium battery field, Linden's Handbook of Batteries, Third Edition, provides you with authoritative information on the characteristics, properties, and performance of every major battery type. This edition focuses on advances in cell efficiency over the past six years, including new information on lithium ion and large nickel metal hydride batteries, and portable fuel cells. This unparalleled resource puts at your fingertips the best technical guidance available anywhere, so you can:

* Determine the performance characteristics of batteries under all conditions
* Select the most suitable battery for a given application
* Apply leading-edge technologies, materials, and methods in new designs and products
* Have necessary data and equations at your fingertips

*New edition focuses on the fast-charging advances in cell efficiency over the past six years *Determines the performance characteristics of batteries under all conditions *Learn the requirements to achieve optimum performance from each battery type *Select the most suitable battery for a given application

THE WORLD'S LEADING GUIDE TO BATTERY TECHNOLOGY

Comprehensive, coherent, and completely up-to-date, Handbook of Batteries, Third Edition brings you the expertise of 80 of the world's top experts -- a wealth of hands-on knowledge compiled and edited by two pioneering researchers who are top-ranked consultants to the battery industry.,

Making vital data and equations instantly accessible for a wide range of applications, the Handbook has more authoritative information than any other source on the characteristics, properties, and performance of every major battery type.

This edition's four new chapters give you new, fully-detailed information on Lithium Ion and Propulsion and Industrial Nickel-Metal Hydride batteries, and portable fuel cells -- including small fuel cells (less than 1000 Watts) which are potentially competitive with battery sytems.

Thoroughly updating all developments in the field since 1995, the Third Edition of this ultimate state-of-the-art guide:

*Brings you up to speed on today's cutting edge battery technologies, materials and methods
*Helps you predict battery performance under all operating conditions
*Simplifies the selection of the most suitable batteries for a wide range of applications

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<b>HANDBOOK OF BATTERIES</b>
<p> Smaller, lighter, more powerful and longer-lasting batteries are necessities in the increasingly portable, ever-more-wireless world of laptops, handheld, cell phones, medical devices, and other modern necessities.
<p>Edited by battery experts David Linden, battery consultant and editor of the first two editions, and Dr. Thomas Reddy, a pioneer in the lithium battery field, Linden's <i> Handbook of Batteries,</i> Third Edition, provides you with authoritative information on the characteristics, properties, and performance of every major battery type. This edition focuses on advances in cell efficiency over the past six years, including new information on lithium ion and large nickel metal hydride batteries, and portable fuel cells. This unparalleled resource puts at your fingertips the best technical guidance available anywhere, so you can: Determine the performance characteristics of batteries under all conditions; Select the most suitable battery for a given application; Apply leading-edge technologies, materials, and methods in new designs and products and have necessary data and equations at your fingertips. <p>Contents include: Principles of Operation, Primary Batteries, Reserve Batteries, Secondary Batteries.