local timeAt around 10am on May 31st, two explosion accidents occurred in the Thai Ministry of Defense building within a few minutes, resulting in a staff member's right eye injury. After investigation, it was found that before the explosion accident, the Ministry of National Defense was cutting off power and staff were repairing the generator. After the accident, relevant personnel immediately inspected the site. They stated that both explosion accidents were caused by the aging and expansion deformation of the generator battery. Subsequently, the staff closed the area for maintenance and disposed of waste batteries.

It is reported that in the afternoon of that dayAt 14:00, former Thai Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Bayou and the Commander in Chief of the Three Armies originally planned to attend a meeting held at the Ministry of Defense. As of now, there has been no response from anyone regarding whether the meeting was affected by the explosion.

The survey shows that the generator batteries supporting large places such as buildings and supermarkets usually refer to Lead–acid battery. Lead–acid battery originated earlier and has been used up to nowWith a development history of more than 150 years, in addition to large-scale power generation equipment, Lead–acid battery are also widely used in automobile, solar energy, UPS, communication equipment, ships, aircraft and other fields.

Lead–acid battery electrode mainly consists ofleadMade of its oxides, the electrolyte is a sulfuric acid solution, which is highly corrosive and prone to environmental pollution. However, due to its early entry into the market, low technical barriers, and low manufacturing costs, it remains the mainstream product in the global battery market to this day. Data display, as ofBy the end of 2022, the global Lead–acid batterymarkettotalreach$53.53 billion.

Since the 21st century, the global promotion of clean energy transformation has led to the entry of lithium batteries into the market. Lithium battery is a battery product with lithium metal or lithium alloy as positive and negative electrode materials and non-aqueous electrolyte solution, which has little impact on the environment and meets the needs of clean energy transformation and green economy development.

With the initial development and exploration of lithium battery in battery industry, its application scope covers almost all application fields of Lead–acid battery, such as energy storage power supply system of various power stations, power supply system of post and telecommunications, military equipment, aerospace, etc. And it extends to the small electronic equipment that cannot be used by Lead–acid battery, such as mobile phones, computers, etc.

Compared with Lead–acid battery, in addition to being more environmentally friendly, lithium battery has lighter volume, larger capacity, and better endurance and durability than Lead–acid battery.

However, the manufacturing process, electrolyte cost and electrode material of lithium battery are almost the same as those of Lead–acid batteryAbout three times, it has not been widely popularized and has entered non high-end and cutting-edge industries such as buildings and factories.

Although lithium battery has many advantages, its stability is not better than that of Lead–acid battery. Taking lithium battery energy storage stations as an example, according to incomplete statistics reported by the National Energy Information PlatformIn the past 10 years, there have been a total of 32 incidents of fire and explosion at energy storage plants worldwide, including 24 in South Korea alone.

Battery is one of the most widely used products in the global industry. It connects almost all the large data centers and high-end industries in the world, and is crucial to economic development, especially to high-tech industries. However, both Lead–acid battery and lithium batteries have technical barriers that cannot be overcome so far, and their safety is not very stable during use.

Safety accidents such as explosion of Lead–acid battery are mainly caused by high temperature, open fire, high internal or external pressure, aging, etc. Lithium batteries can also experience safety accidents such as explosions and fires due to poor battery sealing, substandard electrolyte quality, excessive voltage, collision and handling.

Therefore, both Lead–acid battery products and lithium battery products should do a good job in the pre work of safety prevention during use.