Hi, I am making a large battery from used ones, well partly used ones. Alkaline D cell types mainly. I am recovering the zinc and melting it down to reform and trying to find a chemical way to separate the MNO from the other manganese compounds made when a battery starts to be used up (yeah I know good luck with that one!).
Its a project purely for the hell of doing it and wanting to learn more about battery chemistry, end goal will be to try and make a lead cell battery using plates etc from dead ones. I will update progress as I go, first I have some 600+ batteries to take apart! If nothing else the carbon rods will be useful as will whatever zinc remains in them.
Its a project purely for the hell of doing it and wanting to learn more about battery chemistry, end goal will be to try and make a lead cell battery using plates etc from dead ones. I will update progress as I go, first I have some 600+ batteries to take apart! If nothing else the carbon rods will be useful as will whatever zinc remains in them.