Effect of Electronically Driven Acoustic Disturbance to Lead-Acid Battery SOH Decay Rate
Alexis A. ARDIENTE, Napski Rudolph A. PACLEB, Cris Paulo G. HATE, Gerard Francesco DG. APOLINARIO
Abstract. The study integrates the use of a potentiostat and X-ray Micro CT analysis in evaluating lead acid batteries (LABs) under various configurations and testing conditions. A charge/discharge approach using a potentiostat system was performed to show the significant reduction of the average decay rate for electronically driven acoustic disturbance. The experiment shows that the two transducer setup provides the most stable performance in reducing the decay rate. On the other hand, the use of X-ray Micro CT imaging highlights the differences in internal material distribution using voxel density data. LABs without transducers exhibited the highest voxel density of 24,146.77 and a standard deviation of 7,620.54, reflecting denser but less uniform material structures. The introduction of transducers reduces the voxel density to 11,108.69 and the standard deviation of 5,331.63 for two transducer setup. The results show that a decrease in voxel density happens when the transducer count increases.
Keywords
Acoustic Desulfation, Lead-Acid Batteries, Micro CT, State of Health (SoH), Sulfation
Published online 5/10/2026, 11 pages
Copyright © 2026 by the author(s)
Published under license by Materials Research Forum LLC., Millersville PA, USA
Citation: Alexis A. ARDIENTE, Napski Rudolph A. PACLEB, Cris Paulo G. HATE, Gerard Francesco DG. APOLINARIO, Effect of Electronically Driven Acoustic Disturbance to Lead-Acid Battery SOH Decay Rate, Materials Research Proceedings, Vol. 66, pp 315-325, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21741/9781644904152-29
The article was published as article 29 of the book Advanced Materials and Sustainable Energy Technologies
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