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Article #1453Re: Air-Aluminum Battery/Fuel-cell
From: estell
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 1989 01:35
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 1989 01:35
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First, the aluminum air power cell is available through the Edmund Scientific catalog. You could also order directly (and ask for product info) from the manufacturer: ALUPOWER, Inc., 6 Claremont Road, Bernardsville, NJ 07924. In the literature I have, the process is explained as follows: "The ALUPOWER battery cell uses a special Aluminum alloy as an anode and Air as a cathode. The electrolyte is Salt Water." The Al reacts with H2O to produce Al(OH)3; the excess of electrons at the anode and O2 from the air reacts with H2O to form OH- , depleting electrons from the cathode. The "special Al alloy" obviously contains some sort of catalyst to speed up the reaction between the O2 and H2O, but I don't know what it is that they added.
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