Identifying the safe and efficient way of removing Lead acid battery terminals from battery cap for recycling Lead

Abstract

A significant portion of the Lead requirement for manufacturing Lead acid batteries in Associated Battery Manufacturers (Ceylon) Limited, the only battery manufacturer in Sri Lanka, is taken from recycling old batteries. At the moment the primary separation of Lead parts from the other parts of the battery is done manually. Thus this process suffers from the unavailability of skilled labors to remove battery terminals as the removal of terminals from the battery cap is the most difficult part done manually. Besides, the health risk to the operators is also quite significant. Therefore, a Semi- Automatic Battery Terminal Removing Machine was developed to overcome the above issues. This paper describes the experimental process of identifying optimum methodfor above process.