Benefit analysis of recycling used batteries

Benefit analysis of recycling used batteries

In recent years, China’s annual consumption for the production of Discount laptop battery to 120,000 tons of zinc, 200,000 tons of manganese dioxide, 20,000 tons of copper, there is a considerable amount of zinc chloride, graphite, asphalt, steel and other material. Mn and other resources need to go through mining, ore dressing, smelting and other processes was already consumed a large amount of resources, but also a certain amount of pollution generated.

Therefore, the used Laptop battery to deal with the sound and comprehensive utilization, environmental protection, the protection of significant resources to support the handling of used batteries imminent industry.

With the increase in battery consumption, improve recycling system, the experts predict that the battery recycling will lead to new business opportunities. China’s production of dry batteries ranks first in the world 15 billion annual domestic consumption amounted to 7000 million.

Batteries will be used manganese, aluminum, mercury and other substances extracted, can create larger profits. Experts, to build a Dell XPS M1330 battery factory, although used to be about eight million yuan, but its revenue is very impressive, not only can enjoy the state’s environmental protection enterprises preferential tax, at the same time every day as long as 100,000 to ensure the handling capacity of the battery can be 1.5-2 million profit. According to forecasts, the end of this century, China’s annual consumption of the battery will reach 7.8 billion.

Recently, by the Beijing University of Science and Technology and Hebei Yixian of used batteries renewable joint treatment plant put into operation. The plant used Dell Inspiron 6400 battery scrap processing technology, is different from Japan’s “wet”, but also different from that of Switzerland’s “dry”, nor is it the joint law of wet and dry.

Its process as follows: material is broken down – chemical purification – waste water treatment, and ultimately can be recycled tin, zinc skin, such as copper material copper needle cap, and through access to high-quality electrolytic processing of zinc, manganese products, but also the recovery of mercury and iron by-product of red. The plant has a total investment of 7.8 million yuan, the design was to deal with 3,000 tons of used PowerBook G4 battery.

Supply of raw materials used battery prospects, Beijing 200 million each year battery consumption, for a total of 6,000 tons in 1999, recovered only 60 tons, the recovery rate of only 1%. 10,000 batteries a ton of weight, to achieve 3,000 tons, 100 million will need to used batteries, which means that Beijing’s half used Dell laptop battery will be recycled and can be harmless treatment.

Dell Latitude D410 battery specs

Dell Latitude D410 battery specs

Highlights
• Provides 53 WHr capacity as inspiron 6400 battery
• Reliable power means dependable performance
• Power up your system for business trips and vacations
• This product has been tested and validated on Dell? systems to ensure it will work with your computer
• Supported by Dell Technical Support when used with a Dell system .

Tech Specs :

Device Type: Notebook battery

Width: 5.5 in

Depth :3.5 in

Height : 0.8 in

Technology 6-cell lithium ion laptop battery

Voltage Provided 10.8 V

Capacity 53 Wh

Max Recharge Cycles 500

Work with : Dell Latitude D410 Battery , Dell Latitude D420 Battery

Over View :

Smart Lithium-Ion Latitude D410 batteries are longer lived than conventional batteries and do not require replacement as often. The Dell? 6-Cell Smart Lithium-Ion Primary Battery has internal circuit board with chips that allow it to communicate with the Laptop to monitor battery performance, output voltage and temperature. It also gives the Laptop much more accurate ‘fuel gauge’ capability to determine how much battery runtime is left before the next recharge is required. This product has been tested and validated on Dell systems. It is supported by Dell Technical Support when used with a Dell system.

Manufacturer Part# : Y5179

Dell Part# : 312-0314

Customer Review :

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Waste Heat last the laptop phone 100% battery life

If we use every gadget or as a means of comfort that we know that these devices consume energy. But the Dell Inspiron E1405 Battery energy is not used by devices. A portion of the energy is lost in the form of friction and heat. For example, if we will use the power of computer processor chips, motors and power plants, there is a need to get rid of excess heat is not the equipment will not perform to their optimal level. Now, researchers have to think about the use of these Dell Latitude D410 Battery wastes energy. Peter Hagelstein is the co-author of this concept and is an associate professor of electrical engineering at MIT. His paper was published in the November 2009 issue of Journal of Applied Physics.

When this Dell Latitude D620 Battery energy is wasted, we could cleverly exploited the use of mobile phones double talk time without insert it again and again to recharge. The same could be the case with our laptops, we do not recharge it too often and could also reduce wear and tear. The revised and overloaded power plants can use shell more power when its wasted heat energy can be used.

Hagelstein is of the opinion that the current solid-state devices using excessive heat and convert it into electrical Dell U4873 Dell D5318 energy are not very efficient. He works with his graduate student Dennis Wu as part of his doctoral thesis to find out practically reliable heat converters, which does not carry us his predecessor’s drawbacks. They are gunning manipulator for a realistic technology to come to the realization of the theoretical limits for the efficiency of conversion could.

Postulates that such Dell GD761 Dell 75uyf energy can never go beyond an accurate reading than the Carnot limit. Carnot limit was in the 19 Century, founded. It is a formula for determining the maximum efficiency that the machine can achieve in converting heat into work. But the fact is, in practice, we have reached only about one tenth of this limit. Hagelstein, in close collaboration with Yan Kucherov experiments carried out by a different technology. They have the enviable efficiency as high as 40 percent of the Carnot limit reached. Furthermore, their statistics show that this new type of system could ultimately up to 90 percent, the ceiling.

Hagelstein, Wu and others do not try to improve on the existing equipment. She began again without any past baggage. They use a very simple system in which Dell Inspiron 6000 Battery power was through a single quantum dot state-generated device. This device is a type of semiconductor in which electrons and holes are very confident in all three dimensions is limited. So they tried to understand all the functions of the device. This helped them to better understand every aspect of such a machine.

Hagelstein says that he wants to not only convert heat into electricity, but he decided to do this by achieving a lot of  XPS M1210 Battery energy in return for. He also admits that the current technology is available to use, heat output, but start with one. It’s as high-throughput power. It converts heat from a less efficient system and you get more energy. But this is bigger and more expensive system. After Hagelstein “It is a compromise. Either you get high efficiency and high throughput.” But the team found that with their new system, it would be possible to get both at once.

Hagelstein and his team studied a recent paper by MIT professor Gang Chen carefully released. They talked about closing the gap between the hot surface and the conversion device. They suggested that this Dell XPS M1530 Battery scheme is very important for improving performance. Gang Chen said that the heat transfer could be between very closely refrain surfaces at a rate that is orders of magnitude higher than those predicted by the theory. The new report provides a further step, the heat can be transferred not only to be turned into electricity, so they can be used.

Robert DiMatteo heads a company MTPV Corp. (for Micron gap thermal photovoltaic). DiMatteo is ready to commercialize new Hagelstein idea. He is quite confident that the technology developed by his company to a tenfold improvement in Inspiron E1505 Battery performance over existing photovoltaic devices shown. He plans to market the technology next year. At the same time Hagelstein would give the work of the required impact and a further ten-fold or greater improvement is possible.

DiMatteo presented his statistics and says that globally, if we consume fuel or a power plant generates electricity for nearly Dell Latitude D800 Battery 60 percent of all energy is wasted. This waste is usually in the form of heat. 60% substantial amount. DiMatteo is now hope that the technology to make “it could possible to recover a substantial portion of this energy wasted.”

Hagelstein is of the opinion: “It is a gold mineDell Latitude D600 Battery  in heat, if it could convert. A lot of heat is generated to go to places, and much is lost. If you could recover that your transport is technology, better . work “

Why battery standby time more shorter than manufacturers claim

Why battery standby time more shorter than manufacturers claim

All along, many consumers often complain that their laptop battery standby time is always shorter than the manufacturers claims. For this question, the laptop users must realize that. The original notebook manufacturers announced running time is standard time, that is the standard operating procedures time in the measured values. But the manufacturers want to make the value “more attractive”.

So in the test time most manufacturers will reduce the notebook power consumption. For example: Lower notebook LCD screen’s brightness , close the CD-ROM the wireless card infrared and Bluetooth; Donot run large-scale software in the operating system, play video, power management settings will be adjusted to Sony VGP-BPS8 optimal  Performance;

Or even just boot into the operating system and do not run any other programs. In this way CPU, hard drives, memory, screen and other equipment will be in a very low-power state. But users usually use the notebook in the normal power consumption. So users Dell Inspiron 1720 Battery standby time is shorter than the manufactures claimes.

Laptop battery duration is very important for the users. Mobility is the soul of notebook advantage. If the laptop leave the power the Inspiron E1405 Battery is most important to run the laptop. So laptop battery standby time is an important indicator which can not be ignored.

For manufacturers, what is the point of the Apple PowerBook G4 15 inch Battery life? First of all, we all know, there are only two ways to increase the battery usage time. First is increase battery capacity, the second is to reduce the power consumption of the hardware. However, to manufacturers “added the amount of not to raise fares” is almost impossible.

In the hardware side, now the most laptop basic framework are similar, each brand notebook power consumption are in the same level. Only one possible way is to carry out some small manufacturers optimize the circuit, coupled with a number of specially developed software to reduce power consumption. So it would involve a technical issue, for same configuration laptop and same capacity Dell WW116, longer battery life, the better laptop technology.

Second, the longer battery life can be used as a vendor hype of the highlights. That will help to improve their brand awareness. Finally longer Latitude D620 Battery life time is often able to attract many customers eye to buy the product. Which is the most important point to manufactures.

Because of the points mentioned above, in reality, manufacturers used to mislead consumers consumption practices. Because manufacturers customarily used such tactics and many users are fooled unaware of the circumstances. Thus giving rise to the use of laptop battery time and time does not match the nominal become the emergence of a widening trend.

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Apple Powerbook G4 battery

Apple Powerbook G4 battery

As far as I know there are three style 3 Apple PowerBook G4 Battery, I also confuse them for a long time. I dont understand why apple named its macbook as powerbook G4 12-inch, 15-inch, 17-ich, titanium and aluminum? I also dont know why not apple name it as dell inspiron 6000, inspiron 6400 series ? Now let me introduce these powerbook G4 batteries for you.

First : 12-inch PowerBook G4 battery

Its info : Chemistry : Li-ion
Volt : 11.1V
Capacity : 4400mAh
Dimension : 129.10 x 81.20 x 20.00 mm
Color : Silver
code: Apple A1022 Apple A1079 A1060
This PowerBook G4 battery OEM code is M9324 and fits not only apple PowerBook G4 battery but also can work with (apple powerbook g4 12 m8760, apple powerbook g4 12 m9007, apple powerbook g4 12 m9008, apple powerbook g4 12 m9183, apple powerbook g4 12 m9184, apple powerbook g4 12 m9690*/A, apple powerbook g4 12 m9691*/a, apple powerbook g4 12 series). The battery is made to power apple 12-inch powerbook G4 notebook, but the most shop mark it as powerbook G4 battery not 12-inch powerbook G4 battery. You can buy it in : 12-inch powerbook G4 battery

Second : 15-inch aluminum Powerbook G4 battery

Its detail info :
Chemistry : Li-ion
Volt : 10.8V
Capacity : 4400mAh
Dimension : 120.50 x 83.60 x 19.30 mm
Color : Silver
Battery code: Apple A1078 Apple A1045 Apple A1148
The notebook has a strange, long and repeat name : 15-inch aluminum powerbook G4.The battery OEM code is M9325. It can work with all 15-inch aluminum powerbook G4 series and apple macbook pro notebook. You can order its cheap replacement in 15-inch powerbook G4 battery

Third: 15-inch titanium PowerBook G4 battery

Its detail info :
Chemistry : Li-ion
Volt : 14.8 V/14.4V
Capacity : 4800mAh
Dimension : 115.70×109.15×19.00 mm
Color : Grey
battery code : A1012
This notebook is apple wide screen laptop. Its battery code is M9327. Can fis for : pple powerbook g4 series (15-inch titanium), apple powerbook g4 series (15.2″ tft screen), apple powerbook g4 series (dvi), apple powerbook g4 series (gigabit ethernet), apple powerbook g4 series (titanium). You can see more info in : Apple powerbook G4 battery.

Forth : 17-inch powerbook G4 battery

Its detail info
Chemistry : Li-ion
Volt : 10.8V
Capacity : 5200mAh
Dimension :
Color : Silver
battery code : Apple A1057 Apple A1039
Only replace 17 inch powerbook G4 battery.

We also are not used to remember its battery code :M9324, M9325, M9326. So we general call them powerbook G4 battery, in this situation we buy a wrong battery for my notebook. Oh thank godness. Now it happends to the apple’s newest Iphone, also their name are: 4GB Iphone, 8GB Iphone and so on. Hope apple name its products in an pellucid name.

Useful tips for better using your battery

Missing an important call because your cell phone wasn’t properly charged is a common problem in an increasingly wireless world. Rechargeable laptop battery hold the key to our reliance on convenient, portable products, yet few people understand the basics rules of recharging rechargeable batteries. Even fewer know that when certain rechargeable batteries can no longer hold a charge, they can and should be recycled.

Nickel-Cadmium (Ni-Cd) batteries are the most common type of portable rechargeable Toshiba laptop battery, and they’re used to power products such as cellular and cordless phones, camcorders, power tools and many other consumer electronic devices. By the year 2000, it is estimated that more than 75 million Ni-Cd batteries will be sold in the United States alone.

“Most people don’t know that the used Ni-Cd Inspiron 1521 Battery that collect in their desk drawer or those left in products because they no longer hold a charge, can and should be recycled,” said Ralph Millard, Executive Vice President of the Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation (RBRC), an international, not-for-profit organization that runs the “Charge Up to Recycle!” program for Ni-Cd battery recycling.

To get the most out of your rechargeable Dell Inspiron 1720 Battery  and battery-powered products, RBRC recommends the following guidelines:

• Charge your new Dell Latitude D620 Battery overnight (14-16 hours) before using it for the first time. This is called “initializing” and will enable you to obtain maximum battery capacity.
• Let your battery cool to room temperature before recharging. The charge efficiency of most batteries is greatly reduced at elevated temperatures.
• Recharge iBook G4 14 Battery only when they are near to fully discharged. You can tell that a battery is discharged by a sharp drop in power or speed.
• Keep the contact of rechargeable batteries clean – wipe them with a cloth soaked in alcohol.
• Never return a fully-charged Apple A1022 Apple A1039 battery to the charger for an extra boost. This will overcharge the cells and shorten the life of the battery.
• Never leave your cellular phone, camcorder, etc., in the charger when not charging, unless approved by the manufacturer’s instructions. Don’t use your charger as a stand! Continuous charging will shorten battery life.
• If your rechargeable Ni-Cd Apple A1045 Apple A1061 battery will no longer hold a charge, don’t throw it away! Call 1-800-8-BATTERY or visit www.rbrc.org to find the nearest retail site or recycling center among the 26,000 participating across the country. National retailers participating include ACE Hardware, Ameritech, Batteries Plus, BellSouth Cellular, BLACK&DECKER, Car Phone Store, Cellular One, Circuit City, GTE Wireless, RadioShack, Porter Cable Factory Service Centers, Sears, Target and WAL-MART.

laptop battery can not charge and dischage

laptop battery can not charge and dischage solution

Generally, we said our laptop battery dead means that : the battery can not charge or discharge. The laptop battery can not work after used for some months most caused by the problem. Also sometimes the battery suddenly can not be recognized by machine. This is the adapter or mohterboard problem (espacially in dell laptop battery).

To second problem we only can change the adapter or motherboard. So http://www.battery4.us will talk some useful tips about the reason and solution to the “battery can not charge and discharge” for you.

The laptop battery can not discharge

Laptop battery can not discharge Reason:

1. The laptop battery after the storage using and the life decay;
2. Lacking charge or not be charged;
3. Ambient temperature is too low;
4. Discharge efficient less, such as the large current discharge cause voltage sharp drop to 0, then electricity can not be released
5. The Toshiba PA3399U-2BRS battery has been in over-discharge protection.

Laptop battery can not discharge Solution:

1. The Dell Inspiron 1525 Battery during storage should take a monthly charge and discharge;
2. Charge the battery at 10% state;
3. Use in a normal environment;
4. Use proper adapter of the machine.
5. Place it in icebox for about 12 hours and cool place 3-5 days to unlock the protection

The laptop battery can not charge

Laptop battery can not charge Reason:

1. The Inspiron E1505 Battery in zero voltage;
2. charger failure, no output current;
3. External factors have led to the charging efficiency is too low (such as low or high temperature).

Laptop battery can not charge Solution:

1. Check charger output voltage and current;
2. Check the laptop battery charger output contacts is good or not
3. Charge the battery with 1.5 times the maximum voltage of the battery, 1.5C high current charging, active the Sony VGP-BPS8 battery . (Only when the battery can not charge, use this method)

In the end, http://www.battery4.us wish you have a good Christmas Day.

Laptop battery purchase attention

The attention before buy laptop battert

We often see the 50$ original Dell laptop battery or Apple battery in Ebay. We are also asked about that : your battery is a original battery or not. You should realize that : the battery with the original Brand logo maybe not the original battery.

According to my 5-6 years market experience of laptop battery industry , http://www.battery4.us share some battery purchase note with you.

1. Now the laptop battery market is confusedly. Many low-cost “original” laptop batteries flooded the market. Most of these batteries are the original renovation battery (using a low-quality cells); the same pack with the original battery, no protection battery quality; Some of it is a true original stock battery, but most of them are produced for a long time (even more than two years).

The battery performance greatly reduced, as we all knows laptop battery is a consumable items, lose the performance even in stock; And there is no real brand new original laptop battery in the market, because battery manufacturers will be asked to produce the detail terms number battery by laptop manufacture, according to the amount of customized. The original laptop battery has an official one-year warranty, the market prices are mostly in the $150-200.

2. We all know, the lowest-cost maintenance approach to repair laptop battery (as Lifebook T4220 battery ) is replace the cells. Note that this is the least, sometimes you may have to replace protection board. A good imported batteries cell such as Sanyo, Sony, Samsung and other brands are 5.0$ or more in the market, high-capacity of 6$. Replaceme a 6-cell battery will takes about 35$ dollars or more.

Therefore, we can estimate the original laptop battery Price: 6 cell + battery protection board + enclosure + test fee + R & D costs + packaging + transportation + labor costs + a series of warranty after-sales and other costs, original laptop battery ex-factory price at least 60$, so You should carefully select these 40-50$ “original” Toshiba laptop battery in the market .

3. The main difference between High-quality and low-quality laptop battery Cells

I make the laptop battery as example to explain the diffenence for everyone. There are three kinds laptop battery in the market as following:

1. An original laptop batteries, good quality, need not any evaluation.
2. The famous brand laptop batteries like http://www.battery4.us, high quality and excellent price (the people’s favorite kind laptop batteries).
3. Waste batteries and “original batteries” gave as a gift when buying laptop, usually only stand 2 hours or less. Because these two kinds batteries capacity failed to reach the nominal capacity of standby time. So it is the worst laptop battery (Dell Inspiron 6000 Battery).
4. The replacement battery between 60$-100$ in the market. The battery can standby for 3-4 hours as original battery. But after used abour 10-12 months. The battery capacity reduced a lot or even scrapped. Although it can achieve the nominal capacity and the same standby time as original battery. But the other properties of the battery such as the battery charge and discharge times, the battery anti-aging properties simply can not up to standard. So it can only use 10-12 months.

Most of the 3-6 warranty months warrany “Original battery” and “OEM Dell XPS M140 Battery ” on the market are made of neutral batteries: It achieve the use of nominal time, but it is difficult to achieve the standard charge and discharge times, battery aging fast, average life between 3-6 months. (so they can only guarantee the battery up to six months).

In the end if you want to buy the high quality cheap price battery, just buy the 1 year warranty battery replacement in http://www.battery4.us/. Do not buy the “6 month or less warranty Original battery” in Ebay. As I know I saw many “original sony VGP-BPS8 VGP-BPS9 battery” in Ebay.

Battery recycle

Battery recycle

Battery is generally cylindrical in shape with two terminals, one positive electrode and one negative electrode that conduct electricity along with a substance called electrolyte, that works on the electrodes, chemically and help convert into electrical energy. There is a copper wire that connects the two electrodes. Materials that are used in batteries are carbon, alkaline, chlorine, lithium ion, lead, nickel, sodium, silicon, copper, etc.

Batteries are classified into two- Dry cells and wet cells. The wet cell batteries are also termed storage battery ( VGP-BPS5) as they can be recharged as many times as possible. Batteries are also divided as rechargeable and non-rechargeable or disposable batteries. The second type is again termed as primary cells, used till the chemical that produce the electrical current supply is fully consumed, at which point the battery is not needed anymore. These types of batteries are used very commonly in small and portable piece of equipments that drain low current.

The other type is rechargeable or in other words secondary cells that can be “refueled” even after being completely consumed. For recharging, these batteries need some external help from devices as chargers or re-chargers.

In the present world due to the development of science and technology almost everything (papers, plastics, batteries, aluminum, etc.) can be recycled without wasting it by just throwing it after use. Thus we see that recycling is a procedure by which waste products are recovered for reusing, which is also known as waste management.

Laptop Battery recycling falls under electronic waste or e-waste. Here any discarded, broken or unwanted electrical or electronic equipments, containing toxic materials are recycled for further use. Batteries like, nickel-cadmium, lead, lithium batteries are made to reuse as the chemicals present in them can cause harm to the environment if allowed to stay long in open air after being discarded by the users. Moreover batteries are regarded as the most expensive energy source and their production requires much valuable recourse, so they are recycled so as to restore those valuable materials from those old and used batteries through battery recyling.

Cadmium is a heavy metal and can cause pollution if burned or cremated. To avoid lead pollution lead-aced batteries are processed. This program is considered to be highly successful. Lithium-ion can be very dangerous if exposed to high temperature or sunlight, it can ignite or explode. Therefore battery recycling is a must if we want to protect our environment.

The Recycling Process:

First of all, the batteries to be recycled are sorted according to chemistries such as nickel-cadmium, nickel-metal-hydride, lithium, alkaline etc. The combustible material, such as plastics and insulation, is then removed with a gas fired thermal oxidizer, which is the first step in the recycling process. Most recycling plants have scrubbers where the gases from the thermal oxidizer are neutralized to remove pollutants, producing clean, naked cells that contain precious metal content.

The metal in the inspiron 6400 batteries are then heated to liquefy, after they have been hacked into little pieces. Black slag left by burned out non-metallic substances are scraped off with a slag arm, and the different alloys that settle according to weight are skimmed off. Some plants pour the liquid metals directly into (65 pounds) or ‘hogs’ (2000 pounds) without separating on site, which are then shipped to metal recovery plants to produce nickel, chromium and iron re-melt alloy for the manufacturing of other metal products.

State and Federal Regulations in the United States:

The Mercury-Containing and Rechargeable Battery Management Act was passed in 1996 by the U.S. Congress which requires regulated batteries such as Ni-CD batteries and sealed lead-acid batteries to:
1. be easily removable from consumer products to make it easier to recover them for recycling
2. include in the label the battery chemistry, the “three chasing arrows” symbol, and a phrase that instructs users to properly recycle or dispose the battery
3. provide national uniformity in collection, storage, and transport
4. phase out the use of certain mercury-containing batteries

By recycling batteries the environment is not being polluted nearly as much, many natural resources are saved due to the rechargeable laitude d620 batteries also. There is a large variety of websites on the Internet with more quality information on recycling batteries.

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