Shane Christie
Bio
Shane has trained as a Chemical & Process Engineer, receiving his degree with honours from Canterbury University, NZ. His professional career has been spent in Lead-Acid battery development, having been with ArcActive since the company’s inception. He holds the distinction of pasting ArcActive’s first electrode and assembling the first ArcActive battery. Today he oversees ArcActive’s technology development as CTO, having laid a hand to most technical facets of lead-acid development along the way.
Lead acid batteries have been using lead grid to hold positive and negative active mass for more than a century. Manufacturing of the lead grids, their compositions and geometries highly influences battery performance and cost.
ArcActive and Hollingsworth and Vose have combined their expertise to invent a new way to make plates for lead acid batteries. The combination of H&V knowhow in fibrous glass media manufacturing and ArcActive experience in making plates using fibrous media has enabled a breakthrough discovery on plate design.
This glass fibre-based plate innovation with a reliable supply chain will lead to the following benefits for the Lead Acid Battery:
- Lower weight by lowering the quantity of lead used.
- Improve performance.
- Increase cycle life.
We will present details on the technology and share battery performance improvement comparing the traditional design with new technology.
