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Corporate Sponsors: PLENARY KEYNOTES Click Here to register Online InternationalBatterySeminar.com How Does the Electrolyte Change during Addressing Key Battery Issues from a the Lifetime of a Li-Ion Cell? Thermodynamics Perspective A Delta ModTech Company Jeff Dahn, PhD Rachid Yazami, PhD NSERC/Tesla Canada, Dalhousie University Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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Covering some of the hottest topics AGENDA Materials, North America lithium-ion batteries, including the value chain of in the field, these tutorials are taught by leading Tobias Glossmann, Senior Systems Engineer, Mercedes- recovered metals and reusable electrical components r&d stream researchers from industry and academia. Benz Research and Development North America as well as secondary use in stationary and portable • Next-Generation Battery John Kopera, Vice President of Commercial Operations, energy storage. Research 8:00 - 10:00 am Sion Power Corporation TUT8: Intellectual Property • Lithium-Ion Development TUT1: Materials Selection and Design for Batteries Omar Laldin, PhD, MIEEE, Director of Powertrain with High Energy Density, Ultralong Cycle Life and Daniel Abraham, PhD, Vice President, Science and & Commercializationn Engineering, Ampaire, Inc. Business Strategy, MPEG LA Excellent Safety This tutorial of industry experts will explore the critical manufacturing Yi Cui, PhD, Associate Professor, Materials Science & This tutorial will explore the complex web of patent stream components of the commercialization process. We rights and provide insight on how to avoid technology Engineering, Stanford University will discuss current market trends, advanced battery • High Performance Battery Topics include 1) Si, Li metal, P Anodes and S battles and expensive legal activities. Lessons technology R&D, intellectual property, and the types of learned from past patent wars will be presented and Manufacturing Cathodes for high energy batteries, which offers 7-10 deals that are utilized to get new technology to market; • Lithium-Ion Development times higher lithium ion storage capacities; 2) Low pathways to reduce intellectual property friction from licensing to joint ventures and acquisitions. will be identified. The goal of this tutorial is to & Commercialization cost Prussion-blue based materials and Li metal- Leveraging the expertise of our esteemed panelists, we polysulfide semiflow batteries for grid-scale storage; teach you how to avoid patent thickets to speed up will seek to understand what can be done to accelerate commercialization timelines. applications stream and 3) A novel idea of smart separator to enhance the often-lengthy commercialization timelines for next • Advances in Automotive battery safety. generation battery materials and systems. 2:00 - 4:00 pm Power Applications TUT2: Battery Safety and Abuse Tolerance Validation 10:30 am - 12:30 pm TUT9: The Rechargeable Battery Market: Value Chain • Power Applications for Shmuel De-Leon, CEO, Shmuel De-Leon Energy, Ltd. and Main Trends 2017-2027 Consumer Electronics This tutorial focuses on portable, stationary and TUT5: Li-Ion Cell Design and Manufacturing: Christophe Pillot, PhD, Battery Survey Manager, Avicenne • Alternatives in automotive battery safety along the battery cycle life Processes, Equipment and Quality Control Energy, France Energy Storage (acceptance, testing, assembly, use, transportation James Kaschmitter, CEO, SpectraPower This tutorial will present the 10 year automotive and disposal). The training incorporates Shmuel This tutorial will begin an overview of how to design market forecasts from Avicenne and other analysts engineering stream De-Leon’s and other experiences on battery safety Li-ion cells, including contrasting the performance (micro|Hybrid|P-HEV|EV). Other coverage will • Battery Safety representing over 26 years of work in the field. and characteristics of commonly used materials. The include, Car makers’ strategies, Advanced Energy tutorial will then lead into a detailed review of Li-ion • Battery Management TUT3: Technoeconomic Analysis of Battery Material Storage (Advanced lead acid|Supercap|NiMH|LIB). Systems cell manufacturing from incoming raw materials Additionally, LIB design for P-HEV & EV markets Development and Manufacture through final cell formation, aging and shipment. Thomas D. Gregory, Owner, Borealis Technology (Cylindrical, prismatic, pouch|Wounded, stacked, Z fold HOTEL & TRAVEL Solutions LLC TUT6: Recent Advances in Solid State Electrolytes for cells) and LIB cell, module & pack cost structure 2017- John E. Anderson, Economic Evaluator, The Dow Energy Storage 2027 will be discussed. REGISTRATION Chemical Company Jeff Sakamoto, PhD, Associate Professor, Department TUT10: Improving the Energy Density of Batteries Successful commercialization of battery materials of Chemical Engineering and Material Science, Michigan with Silicon-Based Anodes is achieved when technological feasibility, State University Dee Strand, PhD, CSO, Wildcat Discovery Technologies economic practicality, and market need intersect. Dangerous liquid electrolytes are employed over This tutorial gives an overview on the benefits and Technoeconomic analysis methodology for evaluating solid electrolytes due to their high conductivities challenges of using silicon-based anodes to improve Click Here to register Online and excellent interfacial behavior. However, current InternationalBatterySeminar.com these issues will be discussed, focusing on the critical the energy density of lithium ion batteries. Topics will early stages of a project where product design and research is narrowing the gap between liquid and include the key challenges in use of silicon based process chemistry and development occur amid solid electrolytes. This course will provide a review of anodes as well as progress in implementation of significant technical and economic uncertainty. advances in solid electrolyte, from material synthesis, silicon and what can we expect in the future. to interfacial stability, to practical device applications.
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TUTORIALS & TRAINING SEMINAR Monday, March 26 8:45 Uber Elevate - Powering an 10:30 Unlocking Metal Oxide Anodes for LIBs by Electric UberAIR Future Understanding Relationships between Conductivity, AGENDA 7:00 am - 4:00 pm Tutorial and Training Seminar* Celina Mikolajczak, Director of Structure, Chemistry and Performance r&d stream Registration Open Battery Development, Uber William E. Mustain, PhD, Professor, Department of Following a 32-year career working on emerging Chemical Engineering, Swearingen Engineering Center, • Next-Generation Battery 7:00 - 8:00 am Morning Coffee Research technologies at NASA, Mark Moore joined Uber University of South Carolina 8:00 - 10:00 Pre-Conference Tutorials and to lead vehicle systems development for its New materials hold the key to next-generation high • Lithium-Ion Development Training Seminar* urban air mobility program. He’ll be speaking energy density lithium-ion batteries. At the anode, & Commercializationn 10:30 - 12:30 pm Pre-Conference Tutorials and about this Uber Elevate initiative and sharing high capacity materials – including transition metal manufacturing Training Seminar* vision for how vertical take-off and landing oxides – rely on non-intercalation processes to store stream 12:30 - 1:30 Enjoy Lunch on Your Own vehicles will change the world, as well as the charge, which inherently work to limit cycle life. This energy storage needs required to power UberAIR talk highlights approaches to design electrodes and • High Performance Battery 1:30 - 2:00 Networking Refreshment Break Manufacturing missions in the years ahead. manage degradation mechanisms to allow for high • Lithium-Ion Development 2:00 - 4:00 Pre-Conference Tutorials and capacity and capacity retention electrodes. Training Seminar* & Commercialization 9:15 Networking Coffee Break 4:00 Close of Day 11:00 FEATURED PRESENTATION: Stabilized applications stream *See page 3 for Tutorial and Training Seminar details. Porhyrins as a New Class of Ultrafast Storage Advances in Capacity and Capacity Materials with High Capacity • Advances in Automotive Separate registration required for Tutorials and Power Applications Training Seminar. Retention Maximilian Fichtner, PhD, Executive Director, Helmholtz Institute Ulm (HIU); Managing • Power Applications for 9:45 Organizer’s Opening Remarks Consumer Electronics Tuesday, March 27 Mary Ann Brown, Executive Director, Conferences, Director, Energy Storage Group, Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of • Alternatives in Cambridge EnerTech 7:00 am Registration and Morning Coffee Technology (KIT) Energy Storage 9:50 Chairperson’s Remarks A new material is presented, which is based on 8:10 Plenary Keynote Sessions: Organizer’s Maximilian Fichtner, PhD, Executive Director, Helmholtz engineering stream Opening Remarks an organic natural material and which delivers Institute Ulm (HIU); Managing Director, Energy Storage good specific capacities in the order of 180 • Battery Safety Craig Wohlers, Executive Director, Conferences, Group, Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute Cambridge EnerTech mAh/g at an average voltage of approximately 3 • Battery Management of Technology (KIT) V. The material can be charged and discharged Systems at rates around 50 C. By a simple modification 8:15 How Does the Electrolyte 10:00 FEATURED PRESENTATION: Strategies Change during the Lifetime of a of the material, the typical issue of organic HOTEL & TRAVEL for Mitigating Active Lithium Losses in High- batteries, the degradation upon cycling, was Li-Ion Cell? Energy Lithium-Ion Cells Jeff Dahn, PhD, Professor, Canada greatly improved and 80% of the capacity was REGISTRATION Tobias Placke, Dr. rer. Nat., Division Manager, retained after 6,000 cycles. Research Chair, NSERC/Tesla Canada Industrial Materials, MEET Battery Research Center, Research Chair, Department of Chemistry, University of Münster Dalhousie University Active lithium loss is caused by lithium 11:30 Electrochemical Performance Sponsored by Jeff Dahn is recognized as one of the pioneering consuming parasitic reactions like SEI formation of Silicon Enhanced Lac Knife Natural Click Here to register Online developers of the lithium-ion battery that is and results in capacity fading and, thus, is a Flake Graphite from Quebec, Canada in InternationalBatterySeminar.com now used worldwide in laptop computers and major reason for the reduction of the usable Li-ion Batteries cellphones. This presentation will examine energy density of lithium-ion batteries. Here, we Joseph E. Doninger, PhD, Director, Manufacturing and how the electrolyte changes during the present novel results for mitigating the active Technology, Focus Graphite Inc. lifetime of the cell. lithium loss such as novel electrolyte additives in Coin cell tests were conducted on Lac Knife carbon high-energy lithium-ion cells. coated spherical graphite treated with amorphous Cambridge EnerTe ch silicon at levels ranging from 4.5 to 18 wt% Si. The
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Architectural Design through Machine Learning & EXHIBIT Debra Rolison, PhD, Head, Advanced Electrochemical Chen Ling, PhD, Principal Scientist, Materials Research 11:45 Optimized for Economies of Sponsored by Materials Section, Surface Chemistry Branch – Code Department, Toyota Research Institute of North America TUTORIALS & Scale: High-Performing Natural 6170, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Materials with high Li-ion conductivity as well as TRAINING SEMINAR Graphite for Next-Generation Li-ion Batteries Zinc-based batteries offer a compelling alternative to other desirable properties are the key to the success Shaun Verner, MSc, Managing Director and CEO, Syrah lithium-ion batteries thanks to nonflammable aqueous of all solid-state battery. Here we apply machine AGENDA Resources electrolytes augmented by the high energy density of learning to explore Li-ion conductors from thousands Christina Lampe-Onnerud, PhD, Founder and CEO, Zn-based batteries. We redesign the zinc anode as a of Li-containing compounds. Our study achieved an r&d stream Cadenza Innovation porous, aperiodic 3D-wired “sponge” architecture that unprecedented success rate for the exploration of new • Next-Generation Battery Exponential growth in electric vehicles and grid innately promotes greater rechargeability when cycled solid lithium-ion conductors. The high conductivities Research storage – already fueling the dramatic reduction in the in prototype Ag-Zn and Ni-Zn cells. Our results show of several candidates are verified through ab initio • Lithium-Ion Development cost of Li-ion batteries – is driving the need for further that all Zn-based chemistries can now be reformulated molecular dynamics simulation. & Commercializationn optimization across the industry’s manufacturing for next-generation rechargeable, Li-free batteries. 4:45 Enabling Next-Generation Batteries through manufacturing lines. Enhancements to increase throughput and 2:30 Manufacturing Technology of Sponsored by High-Performance Computing stream generate higher yields are now front and center for All-Solid-State Kandler Smith, PhD, Senior Scientist, Battery all Li-ion cell OEMs. These dynamics are compelling Thin-Film Li Battery for IoT Applications Computational and Systems Modeling, Transportation & • High Performance Battery equipment suppliers, and the anode materials market Koukou Suu, PhD, ULVAC Fellow, General Manager, Hydrogen Systems Center, National Renewable Energy Manufacturing as a whole, to remain cost-competitive while delivering Global Marketing and Technology Strategy, ULVAC, Inc. Laboratory • Lithium-Ion Development higher performance. Solid-State Thin-Film Li secondary batteries have Battery manufacturers and automotive integrators & Commercialization 11:55 Networking Luncheon Sponsored by come to be recognized as one of the key enabling have largely adopted computer-aided engineering technologies for standalone MEMS/Sensor devices tools for design of large format cells and battery applications stream which are essential for Internet of Things (IoT) pack systems. Active research is increasingly turning • Advances in Automotive 12:55 pm Networking Refreshment Break solution. A detailed explanation will be given on the towards the microstructure length scale, to understand Power Applications sputtering process required for the manufacturing and quantify the role of electrode microstructure on • Power Applications for Increasing Energy Density with of these batteries. ULVAC has developed reliable performance and lifetime. This presentation outlines Consumer Electronics Alternative Chemistries hardware and processes for the mass production for ongoing modeling and experimental studies designed • Alternatives in 1:25 Chairperson’s Remarks solid-state Li batteries. to address gaps and enable next generation electrode Energy Storage Tobias Placke, Dr. rer. Nat., Division Manager, Materials, 3:00 Grand Opening Dessert Break in the Exhibit Hall architectures and chemistries. engineering stream MEET Battery Research Center, University of Münster with Poster Viewing 5:15 Transition to Breakout Discussions 1:30 Minimal Architecture Zinc-Bromine Battery for 5:20 Interactive Breakout Discussion Groups (See • Battery Safety Insights into Complex and Dynamic • Battery Management Low Cost Electrochemical Energy Storage website for details.) Systems Daniel Steingart, PhD, Associate Professor, Department Interactions: Modeling 6:20 Welcome Reception in the Exhibit Hall with of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Andlinger 3:45 Rational Design and Experimental Validation of Poster Viewing (Sponsorship Opportunity Available) Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton HOTEL & TRAVEL Battery Cathode Materials 7:20 Close of Day University Kyeongjae (KJ) Cho, PhD, Professor, Department of In this work, we seek to reduce cost and increase REGISTRATION Materials Science and Engineering, The University of Wednesday, March 28 cycle life of a grid-scale system by de-emphasizing the Texas, Dallas requirements for shelf life and short circuit prevention. We discuss ‘materials by design’ and validation 8:00 am Registration and Morning Coffee We show a reconfiguration of the zinc-bromine experimental research on high-capacity cathode system creates a system that may “live forever by materials for Li- and Na-ion batteries (LIB and NIB). Insights into Complex and Dynamic dying everyday” by eliminating much of the balance- Click Here to register Online Using the first-principles density functional theory Interactions: Diagnostics InternationalBatterySeminar.com of-plant and exploiting the physical properties of the method, we have designed electrode materials for bromine and zinc. battery cathodes, and subsequently performed 8:25 Chairperson’s Remarks experimental studies to validate the material designs. Alexej Jerschow, PhD, Professor, Chemistry Department, Through an integrated material design - experiment New York University research, we have developed highly efficient Cambridge EnerTe ch cathode materials.
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COVER 8:30 Probing Interfaces Involving Solid Safer Electrochemical Energy Storage 1:45 Past, Present and Future of Electrolytes: Atomic-Scale Insights from New Lithium-Ion Batteries. Can New SPONSORSHIP Microscopy Techniques 10:45 Healing of Lithium Metal Dendrites for Technologies Open Up New & EXHIBIT Miaofang Chi, PhD, Senior Staff Scientist, Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage Applications Horizons? Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Lu Li, Research Assistant, Nikhil A. Koratkar Group, Yoshio Nishi, PhD, Executive Alumni, Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear TUTORIALS & Laboratory Sony Corporation Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute TRAINING SEMINAR Interfaces involving solid electrolytes represent Mr. Yoshio Nishi is retired senior vice president a critical but largely under-researched area. I describe how self-heating can be used to anneal and and chief technology officer of the Sony heal lithium metal dendrites in lithium-sulfur batteries. AGENDA Microscopic factors, e.g., lattice structure and carrier Corporation. He graduated in 1966 from the distributions, determine the interfacial conductivity Operation of the battery at high operating current Faculty of Applied Chemistry of the Department r&d stream and stability and thus dictate the rate capability in densities will be used to heat the lithium dendrites. of Technology at Keio University in Tokyo Above a critical activation temperature, surface • Next-Generation Battery batteries. Real interfaces are complex and dynamic, and immediately joined Sony, where he rose Research and are challenging to probe for both theory and diffusion and migration of Li atoms is triggered through the ranks to become corporate research resulting in a morphology change of the dendrites into • Lithium-Ion Development experiment. This talk focuses on the atomic-scale fellow, vice president, and president of the a smooth film-like morphology, eliminating risk of the & Commercializationn insights recently revealed by advanced and emerging company’s materials laboratories. In 1991 his microscopy methods. electrochemical cell’s dendritic shorting. team succeeded in the commercialization of manufacturing 11:15 Design of Polymer-Supported, Low Volatility the first lithium-ion secondary batteries (LIB). stream 9:00 Novel Advanced Diagnostics at BatteryX Jigang Zhou, PhD, Staff Scientist, Innovation Division, Gel Electrolytes In 1994 he received technical awards from • High Performance Battery Canadian Light Source, Inc.; Adjunct Professor, Materials Matthew Panzer, PhD, Associate Professor, Graduate the Electrochemical Societies of both Japan Manufacturing Engineering Department, Western University Program Chair, Chemical & Biological Engineering, Tufts and the United States in recognition of his • Lithium-Ion Development BatteryX uses non-destructive characterizations to University contributions to LIB technology. In 2014, Dr. & Commercialization monitor complex structural and chemical changes Solid (gel) electrolyte films featuring room temperature Nishi was awarded the Draper Prize by the that occur in the battery. This leads to deeper ionic liquids (materials known as ionogels) hold great National Academy of Engineering for pioneering applications stream practical understanding of batteries’ synthesis, promise for realizing safer electrochemical energy and leading the groundwork for today’s lithium- • Advances in Automotive surface engineering, device design, and failure storage devices. Ionogels are inherently safer than ion battery. Since the early 1990s, LIBs were Power Applications mechanisms. We review the platform and newest currently used liquid solvent-based electrolytes due to introduced into various mobile devices and we • Power Applications for research at BatteryX such as in situ nanoscale their nonvolatile, nonflammable and leak-proof nature. were reasonably confident that our customers Consumer Electronics chemical imaging of composite electrode to integrate Recent findings suggest that controlling ion-polymer would be satisfied with their performance. • Alternatives in the fine understanding of interphase structure with scaffold interactions through rational chemical Shortly afterwards, however, we noticed that Energy Storage degradation and safety. functionalization is an important strategy by which one there were some discrepancies between the can optimize ionogel performance. performance we offered and that expected by engineering stream 9:30 Nondestructive and Fast Scanning of Cells with our customers. Dr. Nishi will discuss here what MRI-Based Technique 11:45 Making Li-Ion Batteries Safe and • Battery Safety LIB users really require from secondary batteries. Alexej Jerschow, PhD, Professor, Chemistry Department, Flexible with Water • Battery Management New York University Kang Xu, PhD, Senior Research Chemist & Project Lead, Systems We are presenting battery assessment technology U.S. Army Research Lab based on non-destructive Magnetic Resonance Non-aqueous electrolytes are responsible for the 2:05 Global Electrification and LG HOTEL & TRAVEL Imaging (MRI) techniques. The approach works rare but high-profile safety incidents encountered by Chem on intact, commercial rechargeable batteries (for Li-ion batteries, and their moisture-sensitive and toxic Denise Gray, CEO, LG Chem Power REGISTRATION example, Li-ion batteries) – no need to take the nature also brought rigid form-factors. Using aqueous Denise Gray is President/CEO of LG batteries apart. Moreover, the technique can detect electrolytes would resolve most of these concerns, Chem Power Inc. (LGCPI), the North American changes in the electrode chemistry that occur as the if water could be stabilized at extreme potentials subsidiary of lithium-ion battery maker, LG battery is charged and discharged, or if it is damaged. required for most LIB chemistries. This work aims to Chem (LGC), Korea. In this position, she has explore that possibility. overall responsibility for the strategic direction, Click Here to register Online The vision is to use a benchtop-type instrument, which could be deployed in a variety of ways. 12:15 pm Enjoy Lunch on Your Own engineering, and business development InternationalBatterySeminar.com activities for the North American market. The 10:00 Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall with 1:30 Shep Wolsky Battery Innovator Award and majority of her professional career, nearly Poster Viewing Tribute & Plenary Keynotes 30 years, was spent at General Motors in the USA. Director of Battery Systems Engineering, Director of Transmission Controls Engineering, Cambridge EnerTe ch Director of Powertrain Controller Engineering,
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COVER Director of Powertrain Software Engineering, Program Director, Energy Storage, Energy rule, which applies to all LIB tested at any SOH and development of powertrain and vehicle Research Institute, Nanyang Technological (ageing), that is the SOC is a linear function of SPONSORSHIP electrical systems were her core engineering University, Singapore entropy and enthalpy. Linearity coefficients are & EXHIBIT responsibilities. A review of the current global Rachid Yazami is a French Morrocan scientist LIB chemistry and SOH dependent. Therefore, trends in vehicle electrification and automotive best known for his research on lithium-ion the thermodynamics assessment method TUTORIALS & battery technologies will be presented. This batteries and on fluoride-ion batteries. He is teaches on the type of cathode material and on TRAINING SEMINAR will be carried out highlighting LG Chem’s the inventor of the graphite anode (negative the degree of anode and cathode degradation as participation in the various segments from pole) of lithium-ion batteries. In 2014 Rachid the battery ages. AGENDA materials, cell and cost points of view. Yazami, John Goodenough, Yoshio Nishi and Akira Yoshino were awarded the Draper Prize r&d stream by the National Academy of Engineering for 2:45 Refreshment Break in the Exhibit Hall with Poster Viewing • Next-Generation Battery 2:25 Addressing Key Battery Issues pioneering and leading the groundwork for Research from a Thermodynamics today’s lithium-ion battery. In this presentation, 3:30 Close of Next-Generation Battery Research • Lithium-Ion Development Perspective we will show how online thermodynamics data & Commercializationn Rachid Yazami, PhD, School collection and processing addresses the SOC and SOH determination. We found a universal manufacturing of Materials Science & Engineering, stream • High Performance Battery Manufacturing • Lithium-Ion Development & Commercialization applications stream • Advances in Automotive Power Applications • Power Applications for Consumer Electronics • Alternatives in Energy Storage engineering stream • Battery Safety • Battery Management Systems
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TUTORIALS & TRAINING SEMINAR Wednesday, March 28 2:05 Global Electrification and LG today’s lithium-ion battery. In this presentation, Chem we will show how online thermodynamics data AGENDA 1:30 Shep Wolsky Battery Innovator Award and Denise Gray, CEO, LG Chem Power collection and processing addresses the SOC r&d stream Tribute & Plenary Keynotes Denise Gray is President/CEO of LG and SOH determination. We found a universal Chem Power Inc. (LGCPI), the North American rule, which applies to all LIB tested at any SOH • Next-Generation Battery Research 1:45 Past, Present and Future of subsidiary of lithium-ion battery maker, LG (ageing), that is the SOC is a linear function of Lithium-Ion Batteries. Can New Chem (LGC), Korea. In this position, she has entropy and enthalpy. Linearity coefficients are • Lithium-Ion Development Technologies Open Up New overall responsibility for the strategic direction, LIB chemistry and SOH dependent. Therefore, & Commercializationn Horizons? engineering, and business development the thermodynamics assessment method manufacturing Yoshio Nishi, PhD, Executive Alumni, activities for the North American market. The teaches on the type of cathode material and on stream Sony Corporation majority of her professional career, nearly the degree of anode and cathode degradation as • High Performance Battery Mr. Yoshio Nishi is retired senior vice president 30 years, was spent at General Motors in the the battery ages. Manufacturing and chief technology officer of the Sony USA. Director of Battery Systems Engineering, • Lithium-Ion Development Corporation. He graduated in 1966 from the Director of Transmission Controls Engineering, Faculty of Applied Chemistry of the Department Director of Powertrain Controller Engineering, 2:45 Refreshment Break in the Exhibit Hall with & Commercialization of Technology at Keio University in Tokyo Director of Powertrain Software Engineering, Poster Viewing applications stream and immediately joined Sony, where he rose and development of powertrain and vehicle through the ranks to become corporate research electrical systems were her core engineering Processes to Improve Battery • Advances in Automotive Power Applications fellow, vice president, and president of the responsibilities. A review of the current global Performance company’s materials laboratories. In 1991 his trends in vehicle electrification and automotive • Power Applications for 3:30 Organizer’s Opening Remarks Consumer Electronics team succeeded in the commercialization of battery technologies will be presented. This Mary Ann Brown, Executive Director, Conferences, the first lithium-ion secondary batteries (LIB). will be carried out highlighting LG Chem’s • Alternatives in Cambridge EnerTech In 1994 he received technical awards from participation in the various segments from Energy Storage the Electrochemical Societies of both Japan materials, cell and cost points of view. 3:35 Chairperson’s Remarks Robert Gitzendanner, PhD, General Manager & Executive engineering stream and the United States in recognition of his contributions to LIB technology. In 2014, Dr. Director, Lithium Engineering, Yardney Division, • Battery Safety EaglePicher Technologies LLC Nishi was awarded the Draper Prize by the 2:25 Addressing Key Battery Issues • Battery Management National Academy of Engineering for pioneering Systems from a Thermodynamics 3:40 FEATURED PRESENTATION: and leading the groundwork for today’s lithium- Perspective ion battery. Since the early 1990s, LIBs were Comprehensive Enhancement of Rachid Yazami, PhD, School Nanostructured Lithium-Ion Battery Cathode HOTEL & TRAVEL introduced into various mobile devices and we of Materials Science & Engineering, were reasonably confident that our customers Materials via Conformal Graphene Dispersion Program Director, Energy Storage, Energy Mark C. Hersam, PhD, Walter P. Murphy Professor REGISTRATION would be satisfied with their performance. Research Institute, Nanyang Technological Shortly afterwards, however, we noticed that of Materials Science and Engineering; Director, University, Singapore Northwestern University Materials Research there were some discrepancies between the Rachid Yazami is a French Morrocan scientist performance we offered and that expected by Center, Northwestern University best known for his research on lithium-ion Nanostructured electrode materials present Click Here to register Online our customers. Dr. Nishi will discuss here what batteries and on fluoride-ion batteries. He is LIB users really require from secondary batteries. compelling opportunities for high-performance InternationalBatterySeminar.com the inventor of the graphite anode (negative lithium-ion batteries, but inherent problems pole) of lithium-ion batteries. In 2014 Rachid related to the high surface area to volume ratios Yazami, John Goodenough, Yoshio Nishi and at the nanometer scale have impeded their Akira Yoshino were awarded the Draper Prize adoption for commercial applications. Here, by the National Academy of Engineering for we demonstrate a materials and processing Cambridge pioneering and leading the groundwork for EnerTe ch platform that realizes high-performance
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COVER nanostructured lithium manganese oxide (nano- Processes to Improve Battery 10:35 Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall with LMO) spinel cathodes with conformal graphene Poster Viewing SPONSORSHIP coatings as a conductive additive. Sustainability & EXHIBIT 9:00 Chairperson’s Remarks Monitoring & Modeling to Alexandre Chagnes, PhD, Professor, Head, National 4:10 Achieving Higher-Energy Density in Lithium-Ion Reduce Costs TUTORIALS & Network Promethee, Université de Lorraine- Battery Cathodes Georessources 11:20 Measurement and Origins of Conductivity TRAINING SEMINAR Guoying Chen, PhD, Staff Scientist, Energy Storage Variations in Commercial Li-Ion Electrode Films and Distributed Resources Division, Lawrence Berkeley 9:05 The Costs and Environmental Impacts of Brian Mazzeo, PhD, Associate Professor, Electrical and AGENDA National Laboratory Lithium-Ion Battery Production and Recycling Computer Engineering, Brigham Young University r&d stream Cathode materials are key to the development of next- Rebecca Ciez, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Andlinger Because microstructural variation is inherent in generation high-energy lithium-ion batteries. In this Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton electrode film formation, commercial electrodes • Next-Generation Battery University Research presentation, we discuss our recent progress towards exhibit significant variations in their electronic high-energy cathodes using two approaches: exploring This talk explores both the economic and conductivity properties across different length scales. • Lithium-Ion Development high-capacity Li-excess oxides that utilize both environmental costs associated with producing Flexible micro-line electrical probes and numerical & Commercializationn cation and anion redox chemistries and engineering and disposing/recycling lithium-ion batteries. A inversion techniques can be used to scan across areas manufacturing active particle surface to expand the voltage window process-based cost model assessment of the costs of electrodes to quantify the conductivity variation stream of stable operation. Insights on future direction in of domestic Li-ion battery cell manufacturing will be that exists. By imaging areas with significant variation, offered in an effort to understand the current market • High Performance Battery research and development will also be presented. microstructural morphology variations can be pricing structure observed around the world, and the correlated to these conductivity variations. Manufacturing 4:40 Advancement of Lithium-Ion Cell Chemistry commensurate burden associated with disposing or • Lithium-Ion Development and Design for Improved High-Energy and High- repurposing cells after use will be also be examined. 11:50 Research-Scale Testing and Evaluation for & Commercialization Power Applications Lithium-Ion Electrodes and Materials Robert Gitzendanner, PhD, General Manager & Executive 9:35 Challenges for the Development of Sustainable Jason R. Croy, PhD, Materials Scientist, Electrochemical applications stream Director, Lithium Engineering, Yardney Division, Lithium-Ion Batteries Energy Storage, Materials Science Research Group, Alexandre Chagnes, PhD, Professor, Head, National • Advances in Automotive EaglePicher Technologies LLC Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne Power Applications Commercial (COTS) lithium-ion high-energy cells push Network Promethee, Université de Lorraine- National Laboratory Georessources • Power Applications for >250mAh/g and power cells are capable of supporting This talk discusses efforts at Argonne National Consumer Electronics >20C discharge rates. However, the most cutting- Recycling of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) is mandatory Laboratory to standardize materials, procedures, and to protect the environment and it is also a good • Alternatives in edge DEW and MEA applications require rates that far protocols within a large, multi-institutional program opportunity from an economical viewpoint since LIBs Energy Storage exceed the capability of commercial cells. EaglePicher aimed at understanding degradation mechanisms has developed ultra-high-power cells that can support contain valuable metals. This presentation gives an occurring in high-energy/high-voltage lithium-ion cells. engineering stream pulse loads in excess of 200C and continuous loads overview on recent advances in LIBs recycling. These efforts include cycling protocols, evaluation • Battery Safety in excess of 100C. Similarly, EaglePicher has been 10:05 Development of High-Performance of performance metrics, analysis of data and model, • Battery Management pushing the performance envelope for high-energy Lithium-Ion Batteries experimental systems designed to provide connection Systems systems, increasing energy density through chemistry Yangxing Li, PhD, Chief Scientist, Watt Lab, Central between theory and experiment. and cell design enhancements. Research Institute, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. 12:20 pm Advances in Electrode Sponsored by High-performance lithium batteries are desirable HOTEL & TRAVEL 5:10 Networking Reception in Exhibit Hall with Coatings Technology: Combining Poster Viewing in modern society, especially on enhanced safety, Formulation Chemistry and Processes improved energy density, increased rate capability REGISTRATION 6:10 Close of Day to Improve Performance and high-temperature performance. To achieve Stuart Hellring, PhD, Senior Scientist, Research & high-energy density for batteries, significant efforts Development, Automotive Coatings, PPG Thursday, March 29 have been taken to develop high-capacity electrode 12:50 Session Break 7:45 am Registration Open materials, high cut-off voltage cathodes, and increased Click Here to register Online loading density. Some specific technical approaches 1:00 Networking Luncheon (Sponsorship Opportunity InternationalBatterySeminar.com 7:45 Interactive Breakout Discussion Groups with to achieve high-performance lithium-ion batteries Available) or Enjoy Lunch on Your Own Continental Breakfast (See website for details.) will be discussed. 2:00 Dessert Break in the Exhibit Hall with 8:45 Session Break Poster Viewing
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COVER Prototypes & Scale-Up for 3:05 Working towards Making Better and Cheaper the cost at a remarkably shortened production cycle. Lithium-Ion Batteries The dry printed electrodes outperform commercial SPONSORSHIP Manufacturing Yang-Tse Cheng, PhD, Frank J. Derbyshire Professor slurry cast ones in 650 cycles, and thick electrodes are & EXHIBIT 2:30 Chairperson’s Remarks of Materials Science, Department of Chemical and successfully fabricated to increase the energy density. Yang-Tse Cheng, PhD, Frank J. Derbyshire Professor Materials Engineering, University of Kentucky TUTORIALS & of Materials Science, Department of Chemical and We have recently investigated an electrostatic spray The Road to Commercialization TRAINING SEMINAR Materials Engineering, University of Kentucky process for making lithium-ion battery electrodes. This 4:05 Accelerating the Commercialization and 2:35 Technical and Economic Analysis of process does not use organic solvents that are used Launch of New Battery Materials with Special AGENDA Solvent-Based Lithium-Ion Electrode Drying in the conventional slurry mixing and casting process, Focus and Emphasis on Manufacturability of New with Water and NMP thus eliminating the cost associated with solvent Materials and Designs r&d stream Jianlin Li, PhD, Research Scientist, Energy & evaporation and recovery. Our results suggest that the Curtiss Renn, PhD, Senior Scientist, Polaris • Next-Generation Battery Transportation Science Division, Oak Ridge National dry coating process is a promising alternative to the Laboratories LLC Research Laboratory conventional wet process of making electrodes. There are tremendous developments associated • Lithium-Ion Development Total electrode manufacturing costs contribute about 3:35 Dry Printing Manufacturing to Enable Long-Life with new materials to enhance the performance of & Commercializationn 8-9% of the total pack cost. However, it was found that and High-Energy Lithium-Ion Batteries rechargeable batteries and many challenges that manufacturing up to a 2 × reduction in electrode processing (drying Yan Wang, PhD, William Smith Foundation Dean’s make the transition to full production difficult and stream and solvent recovery) cost can be expected along Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and time consuming. Polaris Labs works with a variety with a $3-$6 M savings in associated plant capital Chemical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute of developers and strives to help them move quickly • High Performance Battery equipment (for a plant producing 100,000 10-kWh Here we demonstrate an advanced powder printing through the development process to full production. Manufacturing Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) batteries) when technique that is completely solvent-free and dry. We point out areas to consider in the assessment and • Lithium-Ion Development using water as the electrode solvent. Through removing the solvent and related procedures, processing of new materials as well as considerations & Commercialization this method is anticipated to statistically save 20% of to ease the transition to full production. applications stream • Advances in Automotive Power Applications • Power Applications for Consumer Electronics • Alternatives in Energy Storage 2018 SHEP WOLSKY BATTERY INNOVATOR AWARD engineering stream • Battery Safety The 35th International Battery Seminar & Exhibit is seeking submissions for its 4th Annual 2018 Shep Wolsky • Battery Management Systems Battery Innovator Award. The award seeks to recognize innovative advances of applied battery technology at the chemistry or product level. Judged by a team of leading industry experts, the winner will be announced on HOTEL & TRAVEL Wednesday, March 28, 2018 at 1:35pm during the second Plenary Keynote session. Full details including entry forms are available at InternationalBatterySeminar.com. REGISTRATION
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COVER 4:30 PANEL DISCUSSION: The Cost of Quality in Advanced Battery Development and Manufacturing SPONSORSHIP Moderator: John Wozniak, President, Energy Storage and & EXHIBIT Power Consulting Panelists: Bruce Miller, Technology Strategist, Dell TUTORIALS & Brian Cunningham, Engineer, U.S. Department of Energy TRAINING SEMINAR Curtiss Renn, PhD, Senior Scientist, Polaris Laboratories LLC AGENDA Additional Panelists to be Announced The development of durable and affordable advanced r&d stream batteries for use in automotive, consumer electronics • Next-Generation Battery and stationary applications drives R&D activities. This Research panel of experts examines the true cost of quality • Lithium-Ion Development and how approaches to the development of advanced & Commercializationn batteries must be adapted to avoid the significant manufacturing pitfalls on the road to commercialization. stream • High Performance Battery 5:30 Close of Conference Manufacturing • Lithium-Ion Development & Commercialization applications stream • Advances in Automotive Power Applications • Power Applications for Consumer Electronics • Alternatives in Energy Storage engineering stream • Battery Safety • Battery Management Systems
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TUTORIALS & TRAINING SEMINAR Monday, March 26 8:45 Uber Elevate - Powering an 11:00 The Study of Thermal Management Electric UberAIR Future System with Intelligent Temperature Control for AGENDA 7:00 am - 4:00 pm Tutorial and Training Seminar* Celina Mikolajczak, Director of Power Battery Pack r&d stream Registration Open Battery Development, Uber Jimson Jiang, Senior Engineer, Research & Development, Following a 32-year career working on emerging EVE Energy Co., Ltd., China • Next-Generation Battery 7:00 - 8:00 am Morning Coffee Research technologies at NASA, Mark Moore joined Uber The thermal management system, which adopts 8:00 - 10:00 Pre-Conference Tutorials and to lead vehicle systems development for its advanced thermal management scheme and • Lithium-Ion Development Training Seminar* urban air mobility program. He’ll be speaking intelligent control strategy, can guarantee that the pack & Commercializationn 10:30 - 12:30 pm Pre-Conference Tutorials and about this Uber Elevate initiative and sharing works at an optimum and uniform temperature during manufacturing Training Seminar* vision for how vertical take-off and landing the charging and discharging processes at different stream 12:30 - 1:30 Enjoy Lunch on Your Own vehicles will change the world, as well as the climate conditions. energy storage needs required to power UberAIR Sponsored by • High Performance Battery 1:30 - 2:00 Networking Refreshment Break 11:30 Roll to Roll Coating and Drying Manufacturing missions in the years ahead. of Lithium Ion Battery Electrodes A Delta ModTech Company • Lithium-Ion Development 2:00 - 4:00 Pre-Conference Tutorials and Scott Zwierlein, Coating Process Engineer, Coating and Training Seminar* & Commercialization 9:15 Networking Coffee Break Drying Equipment, Frontier - a Delta ModTech Company. 4:00 Close of Day Frontier offers experience in the development of applications stream *See page 3 for Tutorial and Training Seminar details. Innovation and Design for coating machines. We will discuss the various aspects • Advances in Automotive Separate registration required for Tutorials and of the coating and drying process for producing Li-ion Power Applications Training Seminar. Manufacturing battery and capacitor electrodes, fuel cells, energy • Power Applications for 9:45 Organizer’s Opening Remarks storage and membranes. In addition, we will discuss Consumer Electronics Tuesday, March 27 Craig Wohlers, Executive Director, Conferences, the latest advancements and innovations to improve • Alternatives in Cambridge EnerTech quality and increase yields. 7:00 am Registration and Morning Coffee Energy Storage 9:50 Chairperson’s Remarks 11:45 Youlion Enters the GWh Factory Competition 8:10 Plenary Keynote Sessions: Organizer’s Ratnakumar Bugga, PhD, Principal Member Technical Huanyu (Henry) Mao, PhD, Chairman & General Manager, engineering stream Opening Remarks Staff, Electrochemical Technologies Group, Jet Suzhou Youlion Battery Inc. & Franz Josef Kruger, PhD, • Battery Safety Craig Wohlers, Executive Director, Conferences, Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology BatteryConsultants S.A. Cambridge EnerTech • Battery Management 10:00 Challenges, Risks, and Opportunities for a Youlion Battery Inc., founded 2014 in Suzhou, has Systems Rapid Expansion of xEV Batteries and Materials started their fully automated production of prismatic 8:15 How Does the Electrolyte (VDA format) cells in their first 1 GWh facility, in Change during the Lifetime of a Sachiya Inagaki, General Manager, Industrial Technology HOTEL & TRAVEL Unit, Yano Research Institute, Ltd. autumn, 2017. With their already existing production Li-Ion Cell? line for cylindrical cells, this brings up their total Jeff Dahn, PhD, Professor, Canada So far, xEV market has grown thanks to policies and REGISTRATION subsidies. But, are those supports sustainable? I will production capacity to 1.5 GWh per year, with definitive Research Chair, NSERC/Tesla Canada Industrial plans for expansion up to 2.5 GWh, in 2018. While Research Chair, Department of Chemistry, talk about how we should see the xEV market based on what we are facing now. their cylindrical cells are already used by numerous Dalhousie University e-bus customers in China, their prismatic cells are Jeff Dahn is recognized as one of the pioneering 10:30 Li-Ion Technology for Space, Defense, Racing aiming for the worldwide EV and xEV markets. Based Click Here to register Online developers of the lithium-ion battery that is and Industrial Applications on advanced Graphite/NCM chemistries, Youlion InternationalBatterySeminar.com now used worldwide in laptop computers and Thomas Greszler, Cell Development Manager, prismatic cells are designed for high power or high cellphones. This presentation will examine Saft America energy applications with fast charge capabilities of 3C, how the electrolyte changes during the Research, development and new products for and higher. 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COVER 12:05 pm Networking Luncheon Sponsored by 2:30 Next Generation Anodes for Li-Ion Sponsored by Wednesday, March 28 Cells: How to Achieve Both High Capacity SPONSORSHIP 12:55 Networking Refreshment Break and Cycle Stability When 7:15 am Registration and Morning Coffee & EXHIBIT Using Silicon Metal New Chemistries & Innovations for Jeff Norris, PhD, CEO, Paraclete Energy Advances in Cell Manufacturing Surface modification of silicon particles functions both TUTORIALS & Manufacturing 7:45 Chairperson’s Remarks TRAINING SEMINAR as artificial SEI while preventing silicon from exposure Thomas Greszler, Cell Development Manager, 1:25 Chairperson’s Remarks to electrolyte. Paraclete’s surface modification Saft America AGENDA Craig Rigby, Advanced Market & Technology Strategist, architecture is covalently bonded directly to silicon’s Johnson Controls surface (not through surface oxides) enabling the 7:50 Latest Development of Chinese EV Market with a r&d stream silicon to expand without substantial contact with Cathode Perspective Yuan Gao, President & CEO, Board Director, Pulead • Next-Generation Battery 1:30 FEATURED PRESENTATION: Glass Battery electrolyte, resulting in a highly stable surface for Research Cells in Numbers SEI formation, increasing the cycle stability of the Technology Industry Co., Ltd., China As the title suggests, I will provide a latest update on • Lithium-Ion Development M. Helena Braga, PhD, Professor, Engineering cell. Paraclete’s SM-Silicon’s morphology leads the EV market development in China, and its impact & Commercializationn Physics Department, University of Porto, Portugal to a rate capability, tap density and a low ICL as and Materials Science and Materials Engineering conventional graphite. on the cathode supply chain going forward. Different manufacturing Department, University of Texas at Austin technologies will be discussed, and Pulead’s offering stream 3:00 Grand Opening Dessert Break in the Exhibit Hall will be presented. John Goodenough, PhD, Professor, Virginia with Poster Viewing • High Performance Battery H. Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering, 8:10 Status and Critical Challenges of Battery Manufacturing Department of Mechanical Engineering, University 3:45 Separator, Solid State Electrolyte and Challenges Materials for e-Mobility and Energy Storage • Lithium-Ion Development of Texas at Austin for Future High Energy Batteries Michael A. Fetcenko, Managing Director, BASF Battery John Zhang, PhD, Senior Technical Executive Officer, & Commercialization The Li+ or Na+ glass electrolyte with a cation Materials, North America, BASF conductivity ⌷i > 10-2 S cm-1 at 25°C and a Asahi Sasei Separator The long hoped for emergence of electric vehicles applications stream dielectric constant, ⌷’r > 103 at 0.1 Hz that is wet Separator has been widely used in Li-ion batteries, has now become a reality. Whether this is full battery and its performance has been greatly enhanced by • Advances in Automotive by a metallic lithium or sodium anode is used electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid, hybrid or start-stop Power Applications to develop a new strategy for an all-solid-state, ceramic coatings. Meanwhile, the attempt to replace vehicles, the challenge for battery companies and traditional separator by solid state electrolyte to make • Power Applications for rechargeable, metal-plating battery. We will material suppliers is to provide ever increasing Consumer Electronics make an overview on the calculations, ab initio safe all solid lithium batteries with lithium metal anode vehicle range, safety, lifetime and cost. To enable have been announced by many research institutes • Alternatives in simulations and experimental data to explain a broad and affordable mass market penetration as well as Toyota. I will show the hope of new era on Energy Storage how the glass cells work. The result is a safe, of electromobility and energy storage applications, low-cost, lithium or sodium rechargeable battery battery progress. We will discuss the challenges and continuous improvement on the material level is engineering stream of high energy density and long cycle life. realities of the hope. necessary. The energy storage industry is working on • Battery Safety 4:15 Supply Chain Dynamics and How This Will a vast array of cathode material technologies for Li-Ion Impact the Price Targets of Li Ion Industry batteries such as NCA, NCM, and next generation • Battery Management 2:00 High Energy and Long-Life Li-S Cells with High- Systems Kurt Vandeputte, Vice President, Rechargeable Battery chemistries including high Ni, low Co and Mn enriched Loading Cathodes Materials Business Unit, Umicore formulations. This presentation will discuss the Ratnakumar Bugga, PhD, Principal Member Technical materials science challenges to today’s and next HOTEL & TRAVEL Staff, Electrochemical Technologies Group, Jet 4:15 PANEL DISCUSSION: Investing in Growth on the generation materials with emphasis on the technology Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology roadmap for BASF. REGISTRATION At NASA/JPL, we have been developing high energy Path to Profitability in Energy Storage and long-life lithium-sulfur cells for NASA and DoD Moderator: Craig Rigby, Advanced Market & Technology 8:30 Lishen’s Progress in Developing the 21700 applications. Our approach is based on using: i) Strategist, Johnson Controls Cylindrical Cell Composite high area-specific capacity sulfur cathodes, Jiang Zhou, Vice President, Lishen Research Institute, Tianjin Lishen Battery Joint-Stock Co., Ltd. Click Here to register Online blended with metal sulfides, ii) polysulfide blocking 5:15 Transition to Breakout Discussions layers based on ceramic/organic coated polymeric This presentation focuses on the progress of the InternationalBatterySeminar.com 5:20 Interactive Breakout Discussion Groups (See 21700 cell development at Tianjin Lishen Battery separators, and iii) protected lithium anode. These website for details.) approaches have resulted in laboratory Li-S cell Company. Three types of 21700 cells, viz energy cell, showing high sulfur utilization (800 mAh/g) even in 6:20 Welcome Reception in the Exhibit Hall with power cell and fast charge cell, are being developed dense cathodes stable through >100 cycles. Poster Viewing (Sponsorship Opportunity Available) targeting the xEV, ESS, Power Tool and Portable Mobile Device markets. Benefits of 21700 cells will Cambridge 7:20 Close of Day EnerTe ch
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COVER be discussed and a three-year product roadmap for future benefits. We would like to discuss and there were some discrepancies between the will be presented. promote a future environmental standard for portable performance we offered and that expected by SPONSORSHIP 9:00 Vibration Matters in Battery Ultrasonic Welding secondary batteries. our customers. Dr. Nishi will discuss here what & EXHIBIT Wayne Cai, PhD, Staff Researcher, Research, 11:45 A Closed-Loop Battery Model for Use by LIB users really require from secondary batteries. General Motors Recyclers, Manufacturers, and Researchers TUTORIALS & Ultrasonic welding is a mainstream welding Linda Gaines, PhD, Systems Analyst, Argonne National TRAINING SEMINAR technology for Li-ion batteries. While vibration brings Laboratory 2:05 Global Electrification and LG energy to the ultrasonic welding process to make This closed-loop system provides the user with Chem AGENDA a weld, it can also cause potential damages to the not just the cost and environmental impact of a Denise Gray, CEO, LG Chem Power welding components or even the systems. This portion of the cycle, but offers a view of the overall Denise Gray is President/CEO of LG r&d stream talk discusses research results and engineering impact throughout the entire circular material loop Chem Power Inc. (LGCPI), the North American • Next-Generation Battery methodologies towards mitigating the detrimental and provides a comparison of virgin battery builds subsidiary of lithium-ion battery maker, LG Research vibration effects on battery and battery electric vehicle and batteries using recycled content. The model is Chem (LGC), Korea. In this position, she has • Lithium-Ion Development manufacturing. designed to permit easy updates as new materials, overall responsibility for the strategic direction, & Commercializationn 9:30 From Lab to Gigafactory - Scale-Up of LIB manufacturing methods, and recycling methods engineering, and business development manufacturing Slurry Processing develop and mature. activities for the North American market. The stream Adrian Spillmann, Head, Market Segment Battery 12:15 pm Enjoy Lunch on Your Own majority of her professional career, nearly 30 years, was spent at General Motors in the • High Performance Battery Solutions, Grinding & Dispersing Technologies, Buhler AG 1:30 Shep Wolsky Battery Innovator Award and Electrode slurry production is one of the most critical USA. Director of Battery Systems Engineering, Manufacturing Tribute & Plenary Keynotes Director of Transmission Controls Engineering, • Lithium-Ion Development process steps for the manufacturing of LIB electrodes and essentially impacts the electrochemical Director of Powertrain Controller Engineering, & Commercialization 1:45 Past, Present and Future of performance of the battery cell. However, the Director of Powertrain Software Engineering, Lithium-Ion Batteries. Can New and development of powertrain and vehicle applications stream traditional batch mixing will no longer fulfill the future Technologies Open Up New requirements for cost reduction and capacity ramp-up. electrical systems were her core engineering • Advances in Automotive Horizons? responsibilities. A review of the current global Power Applications Buhler have developed a continuous slurry preparation Yoshio Nishi, PhD, Executive Alumni, process which enables to significantly reduce trends in vehicle electrification and automotive • Power Applications for Sony Corporation battery technologies will be presented. This Consumer Electronics investment and operation cost through improved Mr. Yoshio Nishi is retired senior vice president consistency and yield. will be carried out highlighting LG Chem’s • Alternatives in and chief technology officer of the Sony participation in the various segments from Energy Storage 10:00 Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall with Corporation. He graduated in 1966 from the materials, cell and cost points of view. Poster Viewing Faculty of Applied Chemistry of the Department engineering stream 10:45 The Smart Cell Factory of Technology at Keio University in Tokyo • Battery Safety Raphael Goossens, CEO, General Management, PEC and immediately joined Sony, where he rose through the ranks to become corporate research 2:25 Addressing Key Battery Issues • Battery Management North America from a Thermodynamics Systems How Industry 4.0 standards will help cell fellow, vice president, and president of the company’s materials laboratories. In 1991 his Perspective manufacturers to increase efficiency and reduce their Rachid Yazami, PhD, School manufacturing costs. The presentation will focus on team succeeded in the commercialization of HOTEL & TRAVEL the first lithium-ion secondary batteries (LIB). of Materials Science & Engineering, cell finishing, which is the most complex process in Program Director, Energy Storage, Energy the cell factory. In 1994 he received technical awards from REGISTRATION the Electrochemical Societies of both Japan Research Institute, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Innovations in Recycling Battery and the United States in recognition of his contributions to LIB technology. In 2014, Dr. Rachid Yazami is a French Morrocan scientist Materials for Manufacturing Nishi was awarded the Draper Prize by the best known for his research on lithium-ion Click Here to register Online 11:15 Current Environmental Activities Related to National Academy of Engineering for pioneering batteries and on fluoride-ion batteries. He is InternationalBatterySeminar.com Portable Secondary Batteries and leading the groundwork for today’s lithium- the inventor of the graphite anode (negative Hirohito Teraoka, Chief Technical Officer, Ni-MH Battery ion battery. Since the early 1990s, LIBs were pole) of lithium-ion batteries. In 2014 Rachid division, FDK Corporation introduced into various mobile devices and we Yazami, John Goodenough, Yoshio Nishi and We would like to discuss environmental activities for were reasonably confident that our customers Akira Yoshino were awarded the Draper Prize portable secondary batteries. We would like to discuss would be satisfied with their performance. by the National Academy of Engineering for Cambridge collection and recycling methods and improvements Shortly afterwards, however, we noticed that pioneering and leading the groundwork for EnerTe ch today’s lithium-ion battery. In this presentation,
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COVER we will show how online thermodynamics data collection and processing addresses the SOC SPONSORSHIP and SOH determination. We found a universal & EXHIBIT rule, which applies to all LIB tested at any SOH (ageing), that is the SOC is a linear function of TUTORIALS & entropy and enthalpy. Linearity coefficients are TRAINING SEMINAR LIB chemistry and SOH dependent. Therefore, the thermodynamics assessment method AGENDA teaches on the type of cathode material and on the degree of anode and cathode degradation as r&d stream the battery ages. • Next-Generation Battery Research 2:45 Refreshment Break in the Exhibit Hall with • Lithium-Ion Development Poster Viewing & Commercializationn 3:30 Close of High Performance manufacturing Battery Manufacturing stream • High Performance Battery Manufacturing • Lithium-Ion Development & Commercialization applications stream • Advances in Automotive Power Applications • Power Applications for Consumer Electronics • Alternatives in Energy Storage engineering stream • Battery Safety • Battery Management Systems
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TUTORIALS & TRAINING SEMINAR Monday, March 26 8:45 Uber Elevate - Powering an here as greater than Level 2 charging, or greater than Electric UberAIR Future about 20 kW. We present a simple model to assist in AGENDA 7:00 am - 4:00 pm Tutorial and Training Seminar* Celina Mikolajczak, Director of evaluating such matters as cell performance, cost, r&d stream Registration Open Battery Development, Uber life, and fast-charge capability. * Co-Author: Charles Following a 32-year career working on emerging Wampler, Chemical and Materials Systems Lab, • Next-Generation Battery 7:00 - 8:00 am Morning Coffee Research technologies at NASA, Mark Moore joined Uber General Motors 8:00 - 10:00 Pre-Conference Tutorials and to lead vehicle systems development for its • Lithium-Ion Development 11:00 Technology and Research for Safer and Longer Training Seminar* urban air mobility program. He’ll be speaking & Commercializationn Lasting Batteries 10:30 - 12:30 pm Pre-Conference Tutorials and about this Uber Elevate initiative and sharing Tobias Glossman, Senior Engineer, Mercedes-Benz manufacturing Training Seminar* vision for how vertical take-off and landing Research and Development North America stream 12:30 - 1:30 Enjoy Lunch on Your Own vehicles will change the world, as well as the The dropping cost of Li-ion cells enables more energy storage needs required to power UberAIR • High Performance Battery 1:30 - 2:00 Networking Refreshment Break transportation applications to be electrified than Manufacturing missions in the years ahead. ever before. The overall auto industry is working on • Lithium-Ion Development 2:00 - 4:00 Pre-Conference Tutorials and the integration of batteries with high energy content. Training Seminar* & Commercialization 9:15 Networking Coffee Break Safety and endurance are important requirements 4:00 Close of Day especially for premium cars, high energy content and applications stream *See page 3 for Tutorial and Training Seminar details. OEM Application-Driven Development superior power do not satisfy the expectations. This • Advances in Automotive Separate registration required for Tutorials and talk will discuss some of the recent efforts in R&D Power Applications Training Seminar. 9:45 Organizer’s Opening Remarks toward higher safety and durability goals. Craig Wohlers, Executive Director, Conferences, • Power Applications for Cambridge EnerTech 11:30 Commercialization of a New Sponsored by Consumer Electronics Tuesday, March 27 Class of Additives to Improve Li-ion • Alternatives in 9:50 Chairperson’s Remarks 7:00 am Registration and Morning Coffee Abuse Tolerance Energy Storage Odysseas Paschos, PhD, Battery Technology Project, Steven Weiss, PhD, Founder, Xilectric Inc. 8:10 Plenary Keynote Sessions: Organizer’s BMW Group The emergence of ride sharing and autonomous engineering stream Opening Remarks 10:00 U.S. Department of Energy’s Vehicle Battery vehicles will require batteries with improved durability. • Battery Safety Craig Wohlers, Executive Director, Conferences, Research Progress In this talk, Xilectric will discuss its newly-developed • Battery Management Cambridge EnerTech Brian Cunningham, Engineer, U.S. Department of Energy technology aimed at improving Lithium-Ion batteries’ Systems This presentation provides an overview of DOE vehicle cycle lifetime and abuse tolerance. Xilectric’s work 8:15 How Does the Electrolyte battery R&D progress and the associated initiatives stems from the development of a new acidity Change during the Lifetime of a HOTEL & TRAVEL for accelerating commercialization. It also includes framework and its vision of what it means to buffer Li-Ion Cell? highlights of many significant research breakthroughs Lithium-Ion electrolytes from changes in acidity. This Jeff Dahn, PhD, Professor, Canada REGISTRATION resulting from VTO-funded R&D. A discussion of technology helps with high voltage, high temperature, Research Chair, NSERC/Tesla Canada Industrial electric drive vehicle technology performance targets, and fast charge and has been shown to achieve a Research Chair, Department of Chemistry, gaps, and future research directions is also included. greater than 2.5 times battery lifetime increase for a Dalhousie University variety of electrolyte and cathode formulations. Jeff Dahn is recognized as one of the pioneering 10:30 On the Optimal Sizing of Batteries for Electric Click Here to register Online developers of the lithium-ion battery that is Vehicles and the Influence of Fast Charge 11:45 The Next Era in Li-Ion Batteries Sponsored by InternationalBatterySeminar.com now used worldwide in laptop computers and Mark Verbrugge, Director, Chemical and Materials Begins Today with Nano-Coatings cellphones. This presentation will examine Systems Laboratory, General Motors Reuben Sarkar, MSc, MBA, Chief Product how the electrolyte changes during the We are at a crossroads in terms of balancing two Officer, Forge Nano lifetime of the cell. promising technologies: (1) higher energy density Production ready nano-coatings can unlock the full (Wh/L) and specific energy (Wh/kg) batteries, relative potential of today’s Li-ion batteries providing greater
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COVER 12:00 pm Networking Luncheon Sponsored by 3:00 Grand Opening Dessert Break in the Exhibit Hall 7:20 Close of Day with Poster Viewing SPONSORSHIP 12:55 Networking Refreshment Break 3:45 Advancements and Challenges in Wednesday, March 28 & EXHIBIT Batteries beyond Li-Ion 8:00 am Registration and Morning Coffee OEM Application-Driven Rana Mohtadi, PhD, Principal Scientist, Toyota TUTORIALS & Development (Cont.) Over the past few years, there have been increasing Innovation & Design in Next Generation TRAINING SEMINAR interests in battery chemistries promising to overcome 1:25 Chairperson’s Remarks the limitations with existing lithium ion batteries. Transportation Applications AGENDA Mark Verbrugge, Director, Chemical and Materials Namely, the limited energy density has been a key 8:25 Chairperson’s Remarks Systems Laboratory, General Motors r&d stream driver to revisit metallic systems such as those based Rana Mohtadi, PhD, Principal Scientist, Toyota 1:30 Perspectives and Challenges of Automotive Li- on lithium and magnesium metal. Although nascent in 8:30 Safety Testing and Simulation of Existing and • Next-Generation Battery Ion Materials and Cells nature compared to its Li counterpart, advancements Research Next Generation of Lithium Batteries Odysseas Paschos, PhD, Battery Technology Project, in technologies related to magnesium batteries have Ahmad Pesaran, PhD, Chief Energy Storage Engineer, • Lithium-Ion Development BMW Group been reshaping our understanding of these systems. National Renewable Energy Laboratory & Commercializationn The development of e-mobility is at a tipping point with We will address the opportunities and technical Cost and performance of existing lithium ion batteries manufacturing increasingly optimistic forecasts for the future market hurdles facing these technologies. have improved significantly. To make these batteries stream share of electric vehicles. This presentation will outline 4:15 Porsche’s Technical Innovations for EVs safe in electric vehicles, current solutions add extra the potential and limits of present material concepts • High Performance Battery in Production Vehicles through Motorsport cost, weight, and volume. NREL’s modeling tools from a car manufacturer point of view. In particular, Development Activities evaluate the abuse behavior of lithium batteries under Manufacturing it will address open issues to be solved in the future • Lithium-Ion Development Kenneth Gould, E-Mobility Technical Systems Engineer, overheating, overcharge, nail penetration, crush, development of electric energy storage technologies Porsche Cars North America and internal short circuit. In this presentation, we & Commercialization for automotive applications. The relationship between motorsport activities, will discuss select results of using our testing and applications stream 2:00 Trends in Urban Mobility and technical innovation, durability and refinement is modeling tools for the existing lithium ion technologies BlueSolutions Opportunities fundamental at Porsche. As we move toward the and how they could be applied to the next generation • Advances in Automotive Power Applications Didier Marginedes, Senior Vice President, Director, electrically enhanced and full electric vehicle drive of lithium batteries. BlueSolutions – Groupe BOLLARE systems in production vehicles, it is important • Power Applications for 9:00 A123’s Advanced Global Lithium Ion Consumer Electronics Urban mobility is one of the toughest challenges to retain the performance and the “Fun to Drive” Cell Development for Low and High Voltage that cities face today as existing mobility systems characteristics. We believe development for and • Alternatives in Automotive Applications are not responding to the new needs. Evolution participation in motorsport activities is the best way to Energy Storage Patrick Hurley, PhD, CTO, A123 Systems, LLC of travel habits, demand for new services, speed achieve this goal. With the rapid global adoption of electrochemical engineering stream and predictability, as well as evolving customer 4:45 Surpassing the Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) energy storage for use in automotive transportation, expectations toward individualization and • Battery Safety Fabio Albano, PhD, Vice President of Battery Systems, safety has become a key focus. The adoption of sustainability will require new mobility services. Fisker, Inc. Nickel-rich NMC cathodes along with novel Group • Battery Management BlueSolutions intends to be part of this evolution Systems This presentation will share Fisker’s battery IV anodes is pushing gravimetric energy densities with car-sharing services and public transportation architecture to achieve an 800V powertrain that past 350 Wh/Kg. This presentation will discuss solutions based on its battery technology and can enable ultra-fast charging and energy density in A123’s advancements in safety technology for high HOTEL & TRAVEL systems solutions. excess of 230 Wh/kg at the system level. Such high energy density applications for use in PHEV and EV 2:30 Extreme Fast Charge Capable Sponsored by energy density battery systems will enable vehicles technologies along with low temperature performance REGISTRATION Batteries Using with range more than 400 miles, a necessary step for for 12 & 48V applications. Silicon-Dominant Anode & EVs to surpass current transportation technologies 9:30 JCI’s 48-Volt Lithium-Ion Micro Hybrid Battery Cell Technology based on ICEs. We will also provide a glimpse at solid Enabling Optimization of Energy Generation Benjamin Park, PhD, Founder & CTO, Enevate state battery technologies under development for the and Consumption Click Here to register Online Corporation electric vehicles of tomorrow. Phil Shaw, Global Product Lead, Advanced Battery, InternationalBatterySeminar.com Enevate’s silicon-dominant anode (>70% silicon) and 5:15 Transition to Breakout Discussions Johnson Controls Li-ion cell technology utilizes a self-standing film 5:20 Interactive Breakout Discussion Groups (See This presentation will examine the advancements to without typical battery binder materials. Batteries JCI’s 48v lithium-ion micro hybrid and its optimization. using Enevate’s anode offer extreme fast charge with website for details.) high energy density, wide temperature operation, and 6:20 Welcome Reception in the Exhibit Hall with 10:00 Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall with Cambridge safety. 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COVER Innovation & Design in Next Generation 1:45 Past, Present and Future of Director of Powertrain Software Engineering, Lithium-Ion Batteries. Can New and development of powertrain and vehicle SPONSORSHIP Transportation Applications (Cont.) Technologies Open Up New electrical systems were her core engineering & EXHIBIT 10:45 12V Start-Stop and 48V Mild Hybrid Horizons? responsibilities. A review of the current global LMO-LTO Batteries Yoshio Nishi, PhD, Executive Alumni, trends in vehicle electrification and automotive TUTORIALS & Veselin Manev, PhD, Senior Technical Director, LTO Sony Corporation battery technologies will be presented. This TRAINING SEMINAR Batteries Technology, XALT Energy Mr. Yoshio Nishi is retired senior vice president will be carried out highlighting LG Chem’s The presentation outlines the significant and chief technology officer of the Sony participation in the various segments from AGENDA accomplishment of XALT-Energy in LTO battery Corporation. He graduated in 1966 from the materials, cell and cost points of view. technology introducing this year LTO based battery Faculty of Applied Chemistry of the Department r&d stream products achieving 60,000 cycles at 100% DOD and of Technology at Keio University in Tokyo • Next-Generation Battery room temperature and more than 10,000 cycles at and immediately joined Sony, where he rose 2:25 Addressing Key Battery Issues Research 55oC. It will also review the application of said LMO- through the ranks to become corporate research from a Thermodynamics • Lithium-Ion Development LTO technology achievements in development 12 fellow, vice president, and president of the Perspective & Commercializationn V start stop and 48 V mild hybrid batteries meeting company’s materials laboratories. In 1991 his Rachid Yazami, PhD, School the USABC goals, including cold cranking 6 kW pulse team succeeded in the commercialization of of Materials Science & Engineering, manufacturing power requirement at -30oC. the first lithium-ion secondary batteries (LIB). stream Program Director, Energy Storage, Energy 11:15 What Can the Automotive Industry Learn from In 1994 he received technical awards from Research Institute, Nanyang Technological • High Performance Battery Consumer Electronics? the Electrochemical Societies of both Japan University, Singapore Manufacturing John Wozniak, President, Energy Storage and Power and the United States in recognition of his Rachid Yazami is a French Morrocan scientist • Lithium-Ion Development Consulting contributions to LIB technology. In 2014, Dr. best known for his research on lithium-ion & Commercialization The consumer electronics industry has been plagued Nishi was awarded the Draper Prize by the batteries and on fluoride-ion batteries. He is by massive recalls over the past 12 years. The National Academy of Engineering for pioneering the inventor of the graphite anode (negative applications stream vast majority of these involve large, reputable cell and leading the groundwork for today’s lithium- pole) of lithium-ion batteries. In 2014 Rachid • Advances in Automotive manufacturers. The expected rapid growth in XEV ion battery. Since the early 1990s, LIBs were Yazami, John Goodenough, Yoshio Nishi and Power Applications applications, with hundreds or thousands of cells per introduced into various mobile devices and we Akira Yoshino were awarded the Draper Prize • Power Applications for battery pack, raises significant concerns about safety. were reasonably confident that our customers by the National Academy of Engineering for Consumer Electronics would be satisfied with their performance. 11:45 Fast Forward to a Fast Charge Future pioneering and leading the groundwork for • Alternatives in Shortly afterwards, however, we noticed that today’s lithium-ion battery. In this presentation, Renata Arsenault, Senior Researcher, Ford there were some discrepancies between the Energy Storage Motor Company we will show how online thermodynamics data performance we offered and that expected by collection and processing addresses the SOC engineering stream The convergence of a number of disruptive our customers. Dr. Nishi will discuss here what technologies, steadily declining battery costs, and and SOH determination. We found a universal • Battery Safety LIB users really require from secondary batteries. the connectivity that is changing every facet of our rule, which applies to all LIB tested at any SOH • Battery Management lives has thrust EVs onto the doorstep of mainstream (ageing), that is the SOC is a linear function of Systems adoption. Ford currently offers a DC Fast Charge entropy and enthalpy. Linearity coefficients are capable Focus Electric, and has recently unveiled 2:05 Global Electrification and LG LIB chemistry and SOH dependent. Therefore, HOTEL & TRAVEL ambitious plans for its future electrification portfolio. Chem the thermodynamics assessment method Widespread fast charging capability is one of the final Denise Gray, CEO, LG Chem Power teaches on the type of cathode material and on REGISTRATION frontiers that must be conquered in order to make Denise Gray is President/CEO of LG the degree of anode and cathode degradation as EVs fully competitive with their ICE counterparts. An Chem Power Inc. (LGCPI), the North American the battery ages. overview of the DC Fast Charging landscape in the US subsidiary of lithium-ion battery maker, LG Chem (LGC), Korea. In this position, she has and abroad will provide context for a closer look at 2:45 Refreshment Break in the Exhibit Hall with the barriers that remain, technology status and needs, overall responsibility for the strategic direction, Click Here to register Online engineering, and business development Poster Viewing InternationalBatterySeminar.com and the implications for a society where fast charging stations abound and where EVs roam the roads in activities for the North American market. The 3:30 Close of Advances in Automotive ever-increasing numbers. majority of her professional career, nearly Power Applications 30 years, was spent at General Motors in the 12:15 pm Enjoy Lunch on Your Own USA. Director of Battery Systems Engineering, 1:30 Shep Wolsky Battery Innovator Award and Director of Transmission Controls Engineering, Cambridge EnerTe ch Tribute & Plenary Keynotes Director of Powertrain Controller Engineering,
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TUTORIALS & TRAINING SEMINAR Wednesday, March 28 2:05 Global Electrification and LG by the National Academy of Engineering for Chem pioneering and leading the groundwork for AGENDA 1:30 Shep Wolsky Battery Innovator Award and Denise Gray, CEO, LG Chem Power today’s lithium-ion battery. In this presentation, r&d stream Tribute & Plenary Keynotes Denise Gray is President/CEO of LG we will show how online thermodynamics data Chem Power Inc. (LGCPI), the North American collection and processing addresses the SOC • Next-Generation Battery Research 1:45 Past, Present and Future of subsidiary of lithium-ion battery maker, LG and SOH determination. We found a universal Lithium-Ion Batteries. Can New Chem (LGC), Korea. In this position, she has rule, which applies to all LIB tested at any SOH • Lithium-Ion Development Technologies Open Up New overall responsibility for the strategic direction, (ageing), that is the SOC is a linear function of & Commercializationn Horizons? engineering, and business development entropy and enthalpy. Linearity coefficients are manufacturing Yoshio Nishi, PhD, Executive Alumni, activities for the North American market. The LIB chemistry and SOH dependent. Therefore, stream Sony Corporation majority of her professional career, nearly the thermodynamics assessment method • High Performance Battery Mr. Yoshio Nishi is retired senior vice president 30 years, was spent at General Motors in the teaches on the type of cathode material and on Manufacturing and chief technology officer of the Sony USA. Director of Battery Systems Engineering, the degree of anode and cathode degradation as • Lithium-Ion Development Corporation. He graduated in 1966 from the Director of Transmission Controls Engineering, the battery ages. Faculty of Applied Chemistry of the Department Director of Powertrain Controller Engineering, & Commercialization of Technology at Keio University in Tokyo Director of Powertrain Software Engineering, applications stream and immediately joined Sony, where he rose and development of powertrain and vehicle 2:45 Refreshment Break in the Exhibit Hall with through the ranks to become corporate research electrical systems were her core engineering Poster Viewing • Advances in Automotive Power Applications fellow, vice president, and president of the responsibilities. A review of the current global company’s materials laboratories. In 1991 his trends in vehicle electrification and automotive OEM Application-Driven Development • Power Applications for Consumer Electronics team succeeded in the commercialization of battery technologies will be presented. This 3:30 Organizer’s Opening Remarks the first lithium-ion secondary batteries (LIB). will be carried out highlighting LG Chem’s Craig Wohlers, Executive Director, Conferences, • Alternatives in In 1994 he received technical awards from participation in the various segments from Cambridge EnerTech Energy Storage the Electrochemical Societies of both Japan materials, cell and cost points of view. 3:35 Chairperson’s Remarks engineering stream and the United States in recognition of his James Kaschmitter, CEO, SpectraPower contributions to LIB technology. In 2014, Dr. • Battery Safety 3:40 Zhuhai Coslight Power Battery (EV/HEV/ Nishi was awarded the Draper Prize by the 2:25 Addressing Key Battery Issues • Battery Management National Academy of Engineering for pioneering ESS/PT) Solution Systems from a Thermodynamics Tony Li, Ph.D., Director, R&D, Zhuhai Coslight Battery CO., and leading the groundwork for today’s lithium- Perspective ion battery. Since the early 1990s, LIBs were Ltd., China Rachid Yazami, PhD, School Compared with other types of Li-ion batteries HOTEL & TRAVEL introduced into various mobile devices and we of Materials Science & Engineering, were reasonably confident that our customers (prismatic, cylindrical), pouch type Li-ion batteries Program Director, Energy Storage, Energy have the advantage of size flexibility (very low cost REGISTRATION would be satisfied with their performance. Research Institute, Nanyang Technological Shortly afterwards, however, we noticed that to customize new dimension), high specific energy University, Singapore density and better safety performance. Zhuhai there were some discrepancies between the Rachid Yazami is a French Morrocan scientist performance we offered and that expected by Coslight’s mainstream MP NCM EV cell can achieve best known for his research on lithium-ion >2000 cycle life with 242Wh/kg gravimetric energy Click Here to register Online our customers. Dr. Nishi will discuss here what batteries and on fluoride-ion batteries. He is LIB users really require from secondary batteries. density, and will be further increased to 277 Wh/kg InternationalBatterySeminar.com the inventor of the graphite anode (negative by 2018 through new chemistry introduction. While, pole) of lithium-ion batteries. In 2014 Rachid mainstream NCM HEV cell can achieve ~5000W/kg Yazami, John Goodenough, Yoshio Nishi and power density with >100Wh/kg gravimetric energy Akira Yoshino were awarded the Draper Prize density and >2500 cycle life.
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COVER 4:10 Towards Comprehending Battery Behavior in 9:05 Internal Safety Motifs for Lithium-Ion Batteries 11:50 Increasing Battery Cycle Life through Charging Support of High Performance Workloads Sean Andrews, PhD, Staff Engineer, Qualcomm Algorithm to Reduce IOT Cost of Ownership SPONSORSHIP Kamal Shah, PhD, Director, Platform Architecture As battery energy densities continue to increase, so Naoki Matsumura, PhD, Senior Technologist, Intel & EXHIBIT Management Client Computing Group, Intel Corp.; do the risks of catastrophic failure. While there exists IOT devices expect Li-ion batteries to have a long cycle Chairman, Mobile PC Extended Battery Life Working many external circuits designed to prevent such life because they may be used in areas where battery TUTORIALS & Group, EBLWG occurrences, safety methodologies integrated within replacement is not easy. This session talks about a TRAINING SEMINAR Next-generation mobile platforms require support the cells themselves offer more effective, passive method to extend battery cycle life through battery for high performance workloads driven by emerging solutions. The work presented here covers both charging algorithm. This is expected to reduce the cost AGENDA high bandwidth I/O, higher resolution displays, and academic and industrial efforts in producing effective of ownership as it enables less battery replacement. higher peak power demand. Comprehending battery safety technologies within electrochemical cells. r&d stream behavior is critical in ensuring if these power sources 9:35 Balancing the Need for High Capacity and the • Next-Generation Battery can support needs of high performance workloads Desire for Fast Charge in Consumer Electronics Research optimally. The presentation will discuss some early Walter van Schalkwijk, PhD, Principal Battery Scientist, • Lithium-Ion Development experiments for study of impact of battery impedance Microsoft & Commercializationn on high performance workloads and proposes Sponsored by additional experiments to gain more insight. 10:05 New Battery Test Capability #FloridaBattery18 manufacturing Maximizing Test Coverage stream 4:40 Quality Philosophy in the Manufacture of Mike Costello, Vice President, Engineering, Lithium Ion Batteries • High Performance Battery Chroma ATE, Inc. Bruce Miller, Technology Strategist, Dell Rudy Sterbenz, Chief Systems Architect, Chroma Manufacturing The manufacturing processes employed in the • Lithium-Ion Development ATE, Inc. creation of lithium ion cells are quite convoluted To accelerate new battery chemistry 12:20 pm A Unique Lithium Technology to Power & Commercialization and intricate. To ship a good consistent product, the commercialization, a battery tester was developed to the World’s Smallest Fully Implantable Spinal Cord applications stream process design and control methodology employed focus on maximizing test coverage. Each resource Neurostimulator must be quite rigorous. Attention to detail is important includes the following: Flexible test programming with Erik Scott, PhD, Bakken Fellow, Technical Fellow, Direct • Advances in Automotive from end to end. In actual practice, two manufacturing of Advanced Development, Medtronic Power Applications Python or GUI, 1usec sample rate, 60 ppm charge/ processes may appear to be equivalent, but the discharge accuracy, CE, and EIS. This presentation will Medtronic is a world-leader in implantable medical • Power Applications for implementation approach can significantly affect the devices with over forty years of experience in battery Consumer Electronics dive into the technical details of the HW and SW inside output of the process. A few real world examples will the tester. Veritas: No compromise, just truthful data. R&D and manufacturing for demanding applications. • Alternatives in be used to illustrate the points. In 2017, Medtronic released its newest generation of Energy Storage 10:35 Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall with implantable neurostimulator. The IntellisTM spinal 5:10 Networking Reception in Exhibit Hall with Poster Viewing Poster Viewing cord stimulator uses the proprietary OverdriveTM engineering stream 11:20 Cell Internal Shorts as Next Frontier of lithium-ion battery technology, specifically designed for • Battery Safety 6:10 Close of Day Battery Safety: Types, Prevention and Detection the critical requirements of miniaturized implantable • Battery Management inside Battery Pack devices. OverdriveTM technology enables miniaturized Systems Thursday, March 29 Yevgen Barsukov, Head, Algorithm Development, Battery cells that can be recharged very rapidly while showing 7:45 am Registration Open Management Systems, Texas Instruments negligible capacity fade over many years of continuous HOTEL & TRAVEL Present battery packs have sophisticated protection use. The solution is also tolerant of deep discharge, 7:45 Interactive Breakout Discussion Groups with against external device faults, leaving cell internal unlike traditional lithium ion chemistries. Highlights of Continental Breakfast (See website for details.) REGISTRATION short as the last frontier that needs to be addressed. performance data, modeling approach and technical 8:45 Session Break Depending on the type of internal short, it can be either insights from development of OverdriveTM technology prevented by improved cell-state aware charging will be discussed. Innovation & Design in Next-Gen controls such as MaxLife charging, or in some cases 12:50 Session Break Consumer Electronics Applications detected in early stages, giving the manufacturer exact Click Here to register Online knowledge of time and type of failure. This would 1:00 Networking Luncheon (Sponsorship Opportunity InternationalBatterySeminar.com 9:00 Chairperson’s Remarks allow the manufacturer to take quick corrective action Available) or Enjoy Lunch on Your Own Kamal Shah, PhD, Director, Platform Architecture and avoid potential costly recalls. 2:00 Dessert Break in the Exhibit Hall with Management Client Computing Group, Intel Corp.; Poster Viewing Chairman, Mobile PC Extended Battery Life Working Group, EBLWG 2:30 Chairperson’s Remarks Cambridge Bruce Miller, Technology Strategist, Dell EnerTe ch
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COVER 2:35 Building Next-Generation Rechargeable Lithium film-like morphology, which eliminates the risk of through the development process to full production. Metal Batteries dentritic shorting of the electrochemical cell. We point out areas to consider in the assessment and SPONSORSHIP Jie Xiao, PhD, Chief Scientist, Pacific Northwest National 3:35 Ultra-High Temperature Li-Ion Battery processing of new materials as well as considerations & EXHIBIT Laboratories James Kaschmitter, CEO, SpectraPower to ease the transition to full production. Dr. Xiao will discuss the recent progress of high SpectraPower, in partnership with Covalent Associates, TUTORIALS & energy lithium sulfur batteries supported by has developed a unique Li-ion battery that is capable 4:30 PANEL DISCUSSION: The Cost of Quality in TRAINING SEMINAR Battery500 program. Cell-level challenges in Li-S of cycling at elevated temperatures up to 200OC. Advanced Battery Development and Manufacturing batteries will be discussed. The fundamental science The battery incorporates several unique components, Moderator: John Wozniak, President, Energy Storage and AGENDA behind cell fabrication and the proposed solutions including binder-less electrodes, a specially formulated Power Consulting will be explored. ionic liquid electrolyte and a non-woven separator. Panelists: Bruce Miller, Technology Strategist, Dell r&d stream 3:05 Healing of Lithium Metal Dendrites in Brian Cunningham, Engineer, U.S. Department of Energy • Next-Generation Battery Electrochemical Energy Storage Devices The Road to Commercialization Curtiss Renn, PhD, Senior Scientist, Polaris Research Lu Li, Research Assistant, Nikhil A. Koratkar Group, 4:05 Accelerating the Commercialization and Laboratories LLC • Lithium-Ion Development Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Launch of New Battery Materials with Special Additional Panelists to be Announced & Commercializationn Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Focus and Emphasis on Manufacturability of New The development of durable and affordable advanced manufacturing I will describe how self-heating (Joule heating) can Materials and Designs batteries for use in automotive, consumer electronics stream be used to anneal and heal lithium metal dendrites in Curtiss Renn, PhD, Senior Scientist, Polaris and stationary applications drives R&D activities. This lithium-sulfur batteries. Operation of the battery at high panel of experts examines the true cost of quality • High Performance Battery Laboratories LLC operating current densities (i.e. high charge-discharge There are tremendous developments associated and how approaches to the development of advanced Manufacturing rates) will be used to heat the lithium dendrites. Above batteries must be adapted to avoid the significant • Lithium-Ion Development with new materials to enhance the performance of a critical activation temperature, surface diffusion rechargeable batteries and many challenges that pitfalls on the road to commercialization. & Commercialization and migration of Li atoms is triggered resulting in a make the transition to full production difficult and applications stream morphology change of the dendrites into a smooth time consuming. Polaris Labs works with a variety 5:30 Close of Conference of developers and strives to help them move quickly • Advances in Automotive Power Applications • Power Applications for Consumer Electronics • Alternatives in Energy Storage engineering stream • Battery Safety • Battery Management Systems
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TUTORIALS & TRAINING SEMINAR Wednesday, March 28 2:05 Global Electrification and LG today’s lithium-ion battery. In this presentation, Chem we will show how online thermodynamics data AGENDA 1:30 Shep Wolsky Battery Innovator Award and Denise Gray, CEO, LG Chem Power collection and processing addresses the SOC r&d stream Tribute & Plenary Keynotes Denise Gray is President/CEO of LG and SOH determination. We found a universal Chem Power Inc. (LGCPI), the North American rule, which applies to all LIB tested at any SOH • Next-Generation Battery Research 1:45 Past, Present and Future of subsidiary of lithium-ion battery maker, LG (ageing), that is the SOC is a linear function of Lithium-Ion Batteries. Can New Chem (LGC), Korea. In this position, she has entropy and enthalpy. Linearity coefficients are • Lithium-Ion Development Technologies Open Up New overall responsibility for the strategic direction, LIB chemistry and SOH dependent. Therefore, & Commercializationn Horizons? engineering, and business development the thermodynamics assessment method manufacturing Yoshio Nishi, PhD, Executive Alumni, activities for the North American market. The teaches on the type of cathode material and on stream Sony Corporation majority of her professional career, nearly the degree of anode and cathode degradation as • High Performance Battery Mr. Yoshio Nishi is retired senior vice president 30 years, was spent at General Motors in the the battery ages. Manufacturing and chief technology officer of the Sony USA. Director of Battery Systems Engineering, • Lithium-Ion Development Corporation. He graduated in 1966 from the Director of Transmission Controls Engineering, Faculty of Applied Chemistry of the Department Director of Powertrain Controller Engineering, 2:45 Refreshment Break in the Exhibit Hall with & Commercialization of Technology at Keio University in Tokyo Director of Powertrain Software Engineering, Poster Viewing applications stream and immediately joined Sony, where he rose and development of powertrain and vehicle through the ranks to become corporate research electrical systems were her core engineering Stationary Energy Storage • Advances in Automotive Power Applications fellow, vice president, and president of the responsibilities. A review of the current global 3:30 Organizer’s Opening Remarks company’s materials laboratories. In 1991 his trends in vehicle electrification and automotive Mary Ann Brown, Executive Director, Conferences, • Power Applications for Consumer Electronics team succeeded in the commercialization of battery technologies will be presented. This Cambridge EnerTech the first lithium-ion secondary batteries (LIB). will be carried out highlighting LG Chem’s • Alternatives in 3:35 Chairperson’s Remarks In 1994 he received technical awards from participation in the various segments from Energy Storage Xianfeng Li, PhD, Professor, Division of Energy Storage, the Electrochemical Societies of both Japan materials, cell and cost points of view. Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy engineering stream and the United States in recognition of his of Sciences contributions to LIB technology. In 2014, Dr. • Battery Safety Nishi was awarded the Draper Prize by the 2:25 Addressing Key Battery Issues 3:40 FEATURED PRESENTATION: Stable • Battery Management National Academy of Engineering for pioneering Systems from a Thermodynamics Annulated Dialkoxybenzenes as Catholyte and leading the groundwork for today’s lithium- Perspective Materials for Non-Aqueous Redox Flow ion battery. Since the early 1990s, LIBs were Rachid Yazami, PhD, School Batteries HOTEL & TRAVEL introduced into various mobile devices and we of Materials Science & Engineering, Lu Zhang, PhD, Chemist, Electrochemical Energy were reasonably confident that our customers Program Director, Energy Storage, Energy Storage, Argonne National Laboratory REGISTRATION would be satisfied with their performance. Research Institute, Nanyang Technological Redox active molecules are a key component Shortly afterwards, however, we noticed that University, Singapore that could determine the performance of non- there were some discrepancies between the Rachid Yazami is a French Morrocan scientist aqueous redox flow batteries (NRFBs). Two performance we offered and that expected by best known for his research on lithium-ion novel bicyclical substituted dialkoxybenzene Click Here to register Online our customers. Dr. Nishi will discuss here what batteries and on fluoride-ion batteries. He is molecules, BODMA and BODEA, have been InternationalBatterySeminar.com LIB users really require from secondary batteries. the inventor of the graphite anode (negative developed for use as catholyte materials in pole) of lithium-ion batteries. In 2014 Rachid NRFBs. These molecules have been engineered Yazami, John Goodenough, Yoshio Nishi and to provide greater solubility (in their neutral Akira Yoshino were awarded the Draper Prize state) and improved chemical stability (in their by the National Academy of Engineering for charged state). Cambridge pioneering and leading the groundwork for EnerTe ch
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COVER 4:10 Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries for Grid energy. Results will demonstrate design criteria for 10:45 Sponsored Presentation (Opportunity Available) Energy Storage energy harvesters tailored to frequencies and bending SPONSORSHIP Bin Li, PhD, Staff Scientist, Energy and Environment, angles relevant to human biomechanical motion, with Electrode and Electrolyte & EXHIBIT Pacific Northwest National Laboratory the purpose of energy harvesting fabric design. Dynamics (Cont.) Redox flow batteries (RFBs) systems, as one of the 9:30 Solid Electrolytes for Lithium Metal Batteries 11:20 Printing 3D Gel Polymer Electrolyte Using TUTORIALS & most promising electrical energy storage systems, Daniel T. Hallinan Jr., PhD, Assistant Professor, Chemical provide an alternative solution to the problems Projection-Type Micro-Stereolithography TRAINING SEMINAR and Biomedical Engineering, FAMU-FSU College of Liang Pan, PhD, Assistant Professor, Mechanical of balancing power generation and consumption. Engineering Because of good safety characteristics and high power Engineering, Purdue University AGENDA Solid electrolytes will enable safer, longer-lasting, Here we demonstrate the use of projection stereo- densities (e.g., VRBs), aqueous systems have attracted next-generation batteries, but new techniques are r&d stream widespread interest. We introduce new low-cost micro-lithography as a low-cost and high-throughput required to determine electrochemical transport method to fabricate three-dimensional (3D) • Next-Generation Battery aqueous systems developed at PNNL based on Zn/I or parameters and reaction kinetics. Using 7Li Magnetic Research organometallic redox species. microbattery. We used UV-curable gel electrolyte under Resonance Imaging, concentration gradients in solid micro-stereolithography to build a 3D architecture of • Lithium-Ion Development 4:40 Zinc-Based Flow Battery with High Energy polymer electrolytes were visualized to determine salt microbattery. Active materials, LFP and LTO, are mixed & Commercializationn Density and Low Cost for Stationary Energy Storage diffusion coefficients. An electrochemical alternative with carbon black and flown into the 3D structure. manufacturing Xianfeng Li, PhD, Professor, Division of Energy Storage, to the rotating disk electrode has been developed The GPE is characterized and the microbattery is stream Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy to investigate oxidative electrolyte degradation and performed a cycling test. Results show a feasibility of Sciences lithium plating/stripping kinetics in cells with solid • High Performance Battery of microbattery fabrication using projection micro- Flow battery is one of the most important technologies polymer electrolyte. stereolithography. Manufacturing to store sustainable energy such as solar and wind • Lithium-Ion Development 9:55 Promise and Challenges of Practical High- 11:50 Power and Energy Tradeoffs in Li-Air Batteries: power. Current flow batteries are somehow limited by Power-Density Solid-State Batteries & Commercialization The Importance of Electrolyte Dynamics relatively low energy density and high cost. Zinc-based Johannes Voss, PhD, Staff Scientist, SUNCAT Center flow battery is very attractive due to its low cost and Forrest S. Gittleson, PhD, Advanced Battery Technology applications stream for Interface Science and Catalysis, SLAC National Engineer, BMW Technology Office USA high energy density. We present some Zinc-based flow Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University • Advances in Automotive batteries, e.g., Zn/Br, Zn/Fe, which are very promising Emerging Li-air batteries can achieve exceptionally Power Applications All-solid-state batteries could in principle be safe high energy densities, yet current combinations of for next-generation energy storage. non-flammable high-gravimetric energy density • Power Applications for electrolytes and electrodes have been unable to Consumer Electronics 5:10 Networking Reception in Exhibit Hall with replacements for liquid electrolyte Li-ion batteries demonstrate reasonable power densities and long- Poster Viewing in electric vehicles. Based on first-principles theory, • Alternatives in term efficient cycling. For high-power applications, we show that there are no fundamental power Energy Storage 6:10 Close of Day major issues include poor reactant transport and limitations in going from a solid-liquid to a sharp electrolyte decomposition. This presentation engineering stream Thursday, March 29 solid-solid interface. Practically, however, there are details Sandia’s efforts to combine experimental several interfacial issues that seem to make high- • Battery Safety electrochemistry, synthesis, and simulation to better 7:45 am Registration Open power-density solid-state batteries with long cycle understand the influence of electrolyte dynamics on • Battery Management life challenging. Systems 7:45 Interactive Breakout Discussion Groups with Sponsored by full battery operation. Continental Breakfast (See website for details.) 10:20 Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) 12:20 pm Advanced Electrode Materials for Next- Coatings Enable Higher Energy Batteries HOTEL & TRAVEL 8:45 Session Break Generation Lithium-Ion Batteries with Enhanced Lifetimes Xingcheng Xiao, PhD, Staff Researcher, Chemical and Electrode and Electrolyte Dynamics Rob Hall, PhD, Director, Product Development, ALD Material System Lab, General Motors Global R&D Center REGISTRATION NanoSolutions, Inc. 9:00 Chairperson’s Remarks Lithium-ion batteries are driving today’s growth in 12:50 Session Break Xingcheng Xiao, PhD, Staff Researcher, Chemical and the battery market. Dramatic changes and industry 1:00 Networking Luncheon (Sponsorship Opportunity Material System Lab, General Motors Global R&D Center expansion are creating large new markets for cost- Available) or Enjoy Lunch on Your Own Click Here to register Online 9:05 Mechano-Chemical Response of Battery effective, nano-engineered materials. ALD Nano uses 2:00 Dessert Break in the Exhibit Hall with InternationalBatterySeminar.com Materials for Biomechanical Energy Harvesting proprietary Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) techniques Poster Viewing Cary L. Pint, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of to enable new battery materials that solve battery Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University performance challenges cost-effectively at scale. Hybrid Batteries We present research efforts demonstrating how 10:35 Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall with 2:30 Chairperson’s Remarks flexible battery materials can be reconfigured into an Poster Viewing Cambridge electrochemical device to harvest, rather than store, Brian Cunningham, Engineer, U.S. Department of Energy EnerTe ch
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COVER 2:35 FEATURED PRESENTATION: 3:35 Hybrid Battery/Supercapacitor Energy Storage time consuming. Polaris Labs works with a variety Considerations in the Selection of Batteries Systems Supply the Power Demands of Small Devices of developers and strives to help them move quickly SPONSORSHIP to be Used with Supercapacitors in Vehicle Gene Armstrong, Director, Applications, through the development process to full production. & EXHIBIT Applications Engineering, PBC Tech We point out areas to consider in the assessment and Andrew F. Burke, PhD, Research Faculty, Small devices require physically small energy processing of new materials as well as considerations TUTORIALS & Institute of Transportation Studies, University of storage capabilities. Unfortunately, small form factor to ease the transition to full production. TRAINING SEMINAR California, Davis batteries suffer from a lack of ability to deliver the The selection of batteries to be used with peak power and while meeting the supply noise 4:30 PANEL DISCUSSION: The Cost of Quality in AGENDA supercapacitors in plug-in hybrid vehicles requirements of pulsed load applications such as RF Advanced Battery Development and Manufacturing (PHEVs) is analyzed from the design, transmitters, camera flashed or audio speaker drivers. Moderator: John Wozniak, President, Energy Storage and r&d stream performance, and economic points of view. In conjunction with the advances in thin battery Power Consulting • Next-Generation Battery The use of the supercapacitors to load-level the technology, the supercapacitor is well positioned to Panelists: Bruce Miller, Technology Strategist, Dell Research energy storage battery permits the use of an form a hybrid battery/capacitor solution to achieve Brian Cunningham, Engineer, U.S. Department of Energy • Lithium-Ion Development “energy battery” rather than a “power battery” high power delivery in tight spaces. Curtiss Renn, PhD, Senior Scientist, Polaris & Commercializationn in PHEVs. Energy batteries have higher energy Laboratories LLC density, longer cycle life, and lower cost than The Road to Commercialization Additional Panelists to be Announced manufacturing power batteries of the same energy storage stream 4:05 Accelerating the Commercialization and The development of durable and affordable advanced capacity (kWh). Launch of New Battery Materials with Special batteries for use in automotive, consumer electronics • High Performance Battery Focus and Emphasis on Manufacturability of New and stationary applications drives R&D activities. This Manufacturing Materials and Designs panel of experts examines the true cost of quality • Lithium-Ion Development 3:05 Toward Highly Stable Solid-State Unconventional Thin-Film Battery-Supercapacitor Hybrid Devices: Curtiss Renn, PhD, Senior Scientist, Polaris and how approaches to the development of advanced & Commercialization Interfacing Vertical Core-Shell Array Electrodes with a Laboratories LLC batteries must be adapted to avoid the significant applications stream Gel Polymer Electrolyte There are tremendous developments associated pitfalls on the road to commercialization. Jun Li, PhD, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Kansas with new materials to enhance the performance of • Advances in Automotive State University rechargeable batteries and many challenges that 5:30 Close of Conference Power Applications make the transition to full production difficult and • Power Applications for Consumer Electronics • Alternatives in Energy Storage engineering stream • Battery Safety • Battery Management Systems
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TUTORIALS & TRAINING SEMINAR Monday, March 26 8:45 Uber Elevate - Powering an 11:00 Understanding the Complexities of Shipping Electric UberAIR Future New, Refurbished, and Waste Lithium Batteries AGENDA 7:00 am - 4:00 pm Tutorial and Training Seminar* Celina Mikolajczak, Director of George Kerchner, Executive Director, PRBA - The r&d stream Registration Open Battery Development, Uber Rechargeable Battery Association Following a 32-year career working on emerging What happens when lithium batteries are • Next-Generation Battery 7:00 - 8:00 am Morning Coffee Research technologies at NASA, Mark Moore joined Uber disassembled and refurbished? Are they subject to the 8:00 - 10:00 Pre-Conference Tutorials and to lead vehicle systems development for its dangerous goods and hazardous waste regulations • Lithium-Ion Development Training Seminar* urban air mobility program. He’ll be speaking when transported? When lithium batteries reach & Commercializationn 10:30 - 12:30 pm Pre-Conference Tutorials and about this Uber Elevate initiative and sharing the end of life and are shipped domestically and manufacturing Training Seminar* vision for how vertical take-off and landing internationally as waste, what transport and hazardous stream 12:30 - 1:30 Enjoy Lunch on Your Own vehicles will change the world, as well as the waste regulations apply? Do they require a hazardous energy storage needs required to power UberAIR waste manifest when transported within or exported • High Performance Battery 1:30 - 2:00 Networking Refreshment Break Manufacturing missions in the years ahead. from the U.S., require an export permit from the U.S. • Lithium-Ion Development 2:00 - 4:00 Pre-Conference Tutorials and Environmental Protection Agency, and consent from Training Seminar* the country receiving the waste batteries? & Commercialization 9:15 Networking Coffee Break 4:00 Close of Day 11:30 Lithium-Ion Battery Thermal Sponsored by applications stream *See page 3 for Tutorial and Training Seminar details. Regulatory Updates Management and Thermal Runway • Advances in Automotive Separate registration required for Tutorials and Propagation Mitigation Solutions with Power Applications Training Seminar. 9:45 Organizer’s Opening Remarks Carbon Fiber Technology Victoria Mosolgo, Conference Producer, • Power Applications for Michael Mo, CEO, KULR Technology Corporation Consumer Electronics Tuesday, March 27 Cambridge EnerTech KULR Technology is a pioneer in thermal management • Alternatives in 9:50 Chairperson’s Remarks technology with its proprietary carbon fiber technology 7:00 am Registration and Morning Coffee Energy Storage Cynthia Millsaps, President and CEO, Quality, Energy that has been used by NASA, Boeing and JPL in 8:10 Plenary Keynote Sessions: Organizer’s Assurance LLC over 500 aerospace and industrial applications. It engineering stream Opening Remarks 10:00 Regulatory Updates for Li-Ion Batteries Globally will showcase its latest solutions to prevent lithium- • Battery Safety Craig Wohlers, Executive Director, Conferences, Cynthia Millsaps, President and CEO, Quality, Energy ion battery thermal runaway propagation, testing • Battery Management Cambridge EnerTech Assurance LLC for battery safety and thermal management of Systems Updates on all major global markets for lithium ion battery operations. 8:15 How Does the Electrolyte cells and batteries. Battery compliance is an ever- 11:45 High Power and Safe Li-metal Sponsored by Change during the Lifetime of a HOTEL & TRAVEL changing area and it can be challenging to keep up Batteries Part I: The Mechanism of Li XNRGI Li-Ion Cell? with all the new regulations and proposals going on Metal Growth in Porous Structures Jeff Dahn, PhD, Professor, Canada REGISTRATION globally. We will review the current major battery Slobodan Petrovic, PhD, CTO, XNRGI Research Chair, NSERC/Tesla Canada Industrial markets and what it takes to ship and cell products Lithium metal batteries with liquid electrolytes Research Chair, Department of Chemistry, in these areas. are not safe because of dendrite growth. A new Dalhousie University 10:30 Safety Guidelines and Changes electrode structure consisting of porous silicon is Jeff Dahn is recognized as one of the pioneering shown to suppress dendrite growth, enabling high- Click Here to register Online developers of the lithium-ion battery that is Janet McLaughlin, Director, Hazardous Materials Safety Program, Federal Aviation Administration power and safe battery. The results, supported by InternationalBatterySeminar.com now used worldwide in laptop computers and the study of reaction mechanisms, demonstrate cellphones. This presentation will examine excellent Coulombic efficiency and high volumetric how the electrolyte changes during the energy density. lifetime of the cell. 12:00 pm Networking Luncheon Sponsored by
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COVER 12:55 Networking Refreshment Break 4:15 Thermal Propagation Testing within 9:30 Understanding Safety of Aging Cells EV Battery Packs Judith Jeevarajan, PhD, Research Director, SPONSORSHIP Transportation Safety Dean MacNeil, PhD, Research Officer, Energy Mining and Electrochemical Safety, Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. & EXHIBIT 1:25 Chairperson’s Remarks Environment, National Research Council of Canada Results of studies to cycle cells and modules under Chris Turner, CTO & Vice President, Inventus Powero We have developed a novel thermal runaway initiation different voltage ranges as well as under the hybrid TUTORIALS & method that permits the investigation of thermal electric vehicle profile at different temperatures. The 1:30 The Challenges of Shipping Damaged Batteries - TRAINING SEMINAR propagation studies within a wide variety of battery fresh and cycled cells and modules were subjected Understanding the Transport Regulations to Facilitate packs using different cell choices and construction to off-nominal tests such as overcharge and external Forensic Analysis and Product Recalls AGENDA methods. It is minimally invasive, provides minimal shorts to understand the characteristics of the aging Bob Richard, PhD, President, Consulting, Hazmat Safety external energy to the system and results in thermal process and how it might affect safety. Destructive r&d stream Consulting runaway in less than 10 seconds. The use of this analysis was carried out on fresh and cycled cells Regulators, airlines, aircraft manufacturers and pilots • Next-Generation Battery method within a number of EV battery pack designs to understand component level changes that occur Research continue to express concerns relative to the safe will be shown. during the aging process. transport of lithium batteries by air. These concerns • Lithium-Ion Development continue to result in restrictions that impact supply 4:45 Statistical Characterization 18650 10:00 Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall with & Commercializationn chains. What risk mitigation solutions are available Format Lithium Ion Cell Thermal Runaway Poster Viewing manufacturing and how can shippers minimize supply chain impacts? Energy Distributions stream William Walker, Heat Transfer Analyst, Thermal Design Next-Generation Battery Research/ 2:00 Sizing Cell Modules to Prevent Thermal Events in Branch, NASA Johnson Space Center • High Performance Battery Medium and Large Format Systems; How to Prevent Battery Safety Manufacturing Costly Over-Design and Maintain Safety 5:15 Transition to Breakout Discussions 10:45 Healing of Lithium Metal Dendrites for • Lithium-Ion Development Chris Turner, CTO & Vice President, Inventus Power 5:20 Interactive Breakout Discussion Groups (See Electrochemical Energy Storage Applications & Commercialization Inventus Power has analyzed construction and thermal website for details.) Lu Li, Research Assistant, Nikhil A. Koratkar Group, mass characteristics in a study to show how the other 6:20 Welcome Reception in the Exhibit Hall with Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear applications stream cells in the module dissipate heat. Thresholds for the Poster Viewing (Sponsorship Opportunity Available) Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute • Advances in Automotive total absorption of heat are established, and a design I describe how self-heating can be used to anneal and Power Applications approach is demonstrated for proper use of this 7:20 Close of Day heal lithium metal dendrites in lithium-sulfur batteries. • Power Applications for method to improve thermal event resilience at module Operation of the battery at high operating current Consumer Electronics level in medium and large format battery systems. Wednesday, March 28 densities will be used to heat the lithium dendrites. • Alternatives in 2:30 Sponsored Presentation (Opportunities Available) 8:00 am Registration and Morning Coffee Above a critical activation temperature, surface diffusion and migration of Li atoms is triggered Energy Storage 3:00 Grand Opening Dessert Break in the Exhibit Hall Simulation and Testing resulting in a morphology change of the dendrites into engineering stream with Poster Viewing a smooth film-like morphology, eliminating risk of the 8:25 Chairperson’s Remarks • Battery Safety 3:45 Combined Battery Calorimetry and Simulation for electrochemical cell’s dendritic shorting. Andy Keates, Technology Manager, Intel Corporation • Battery Management Prevention of Thermal Runaway and Increased Safety 11:15 Design of Polymer-Supported, Low Volatility Systems Carlos Ziebert, PhD, Senior Scientist, Thermophysics 8:30 Testing Li-Metal Cells for Actual Gel Electrolytes & Thermodynamics Group, Karlsruhe Institute of Usage Scenarios Matthew Panzer, PhD, Associate Professor, Graduate Technology Andy Keates, Technology Manager, Intel Corporation HOTEL & TRAVEL Program Chair, Chemical & Biological Engineering, Tufts Battery calorimetry as a powerful and versatile We typically test Li-ion batteries for cycle life with University electrochemical-thermal characterization technique only a short period at 100% state of charge. It’s not REGISTRATION Solid (gel) electrolyte films featuring room temperature will be presented under normal use together with realistic, but it’s not dangerous either. Realism may ionic liquids (materials known as ionogels) hold great safety tests under abuse and accident conditions take on a new challenge if USB becomes an option promise for realizing safer electrochemical energy (thermal abuse, nail penetration). It will be shown how for charging our laptops. This can easily lead to many storage devices. Ionogels are inherently safer than the data (temperature, heat, internal pressure) gained shallow charge cycles a minute and very frequent currently used liquid solvent-based electrolytes due to Click Here to register Online from these experiments combined with multiscale reversals in charge/discharge. Hundreds of short their nonvolatile, nonflammable and leak-proof nature. InternationalBatterySeminar.com modelling of the thermal runaway and advanced charge cycles a day can happen. What does that mean Recent findings suggest that controlling ion-polymer BMS diagnostics provide a powerful tool for the early for dendrite growth? scaffold interactions through rational chemical prediction and prevention of the thermal runaway. 9:00 Short Detection Technology for Battery Safety functionalization is an important strategy by which one Brian Barnett, PhD, Vice President, CAMX Power can optimize ionogel performance.
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COVER 11:45 Making Li-Ion Batteries Safe and Nishi was awarded the Draper Prize by the 2:25 Addressing Key Battery Issues Flexible with Water National Academy of Engineering for pioneering from a Thermodynamics SPONSORSHIP Kang Xu, PhD, Senior Research Chemist & Project Lead, and leading the groundwork for today’s lithium- Perspective & EXHIBIT US Army Research Lab ion battery. Since the early 1990s, LIBs were Rachid Yazami, PhD, School Non-aqueous electrolytes are responsible for the introduced into various mobile devices and we of Materials Science & Engineering, TUTORIALS & rare but high-profile safety incidents encountered by were reasonably confident that our customers Program Director, Energy Storage, Energy TRAINING SEMINAR Li-ion batteries, and their moisture-sensitive and toxic would be satisfied with their performance. Research Institute, Nanyang Technological nature also brought rigid form-factors. Using aqueous Shortly afterwards, however, we noticed that University, Singapore AGENDA electrolytes would resolve most of these concerns, there were some discrepancies between the Rachid Yazami is a French Morrocan scientist if water could be stabilized at extreme potentials performance we offered and that expected by best known for his research on lithium-ion r&d stream required for most LIB chemistries. This work aims to our customers. Dr. Nishi will discuss here what batteries and on fluoride-ion batteries. He is • Next-Generation Battery explore that possibility. LIB users really require from secondary batteries. the inventor of the graphite anode (negative Research 12:15 pm Enjoy Lunch on Your Own pole) of lithium-ion batteries. In 2014 Rachid • Lithium-Ion Development Yazami, John Goodenough, Yoshio Nishi and 1:30 Shep Wolsky Battery Innovator Award and Akira Yoshino were awarded the Draper Prize & Commercializationn Tribute & Plenary Keynotes 2:05 Global Electrification and LG Chem by the National Academy of Engineering for manufacturing pioneering and leading the groundwork for stream 1:45 Past, Present and Future of Denise Gray, CEO, LG Chem Power Denise Gray is President/CEO of LG today’s lithium-ion battery. In this presentation, • High Performance Battery Lithium-Ion Batteries. Can New we will show how online thermodynamics data Technologies Open Up New Chem Power Inc. (LGCPI), the North American Manufacturing subsidiary of lithium-ion battery maker, LG collection and processing addresses the SOC • Lithium-Ion Development Horizons? and SOH determination. We found a universal Yoshio Nishi, PhD, Executive Alumni, Chem (LGC), Korea. In this position, she has & Commercialization rule, which applies to all LIB tested at any SOH Sony Corporation overall responsibility for the strategic direction, engineering, and business development (ageing), that is the SOC is a linear function of applications stream Mr. Yoshio Nishi is retired senior vice president entropy and enthalpy. Linearity coefficients are and chief technology officer of the Sony activities for the North American market. The • Advances in Automotive majority of her professional career, nearly LIB chemistry and SOH dependent. Therefore, Power Applications Corporation. He graduated in 1966 from the the thermodynamics assessment method Faculty of Applied Chemistry of the Department 30 years, was spent at General Motors in the • Power Applications for USA. Director of Battery Systems Engineering, teaches on the type of cathode material and on Consumer Electronics of Technology at Keio University in Tokyo the degree of anode and cathode degradation as and immediately joined Sony, where he rose Director of Transmission Controls Engineering, • Alternatives in the battery ages. through the ranks to become corporate research Director of Powertrain Controller Engineering, Energy Storage fellow, vice president, and president of the Director of Powertrain Software Engineering, and development of powertrain and vehicle engineering stream company’s materials laboratories. In 1991 his 2:45 Refreshment Break in the Exhibit Hall with team succeeded in the commercialization of electrical systems were her core engineering Poster Viewing • Battery Safety responsibilities. A review of the current global the first lithium-ion secondary batteries (LIB). 3:30 Close of Battery Safety • Battery Management In 1994 he received technical awards from trends in vehicle electrification and automotive Systems the Electrochemical Societies of both Japan battery technologies will be presented. This and the United States in recognition of his will be carried out highlighting LG Chem’s HOTEL & TRAVEL contributions to LIB technology. In 2014, Dr. participation in the various segments from materials, cell and cost points of view. REGISTRATION
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TUTORIALS & TRAINING SEMINAR Wednesday, March 28 2:05 Global Electrification and LG Akira Yoshino were awarded the Draper Prize Chem by the National Academy of Engineering for AGENDA 1:30 Shep Wolsky Battery Innovator Award and Denise Gray, CEO, LG Chem Power pioneering and leading the groundwork for r&d stream Tribute & Plenary Keynotes Denise Gray is President/CEO of LG today’s lithium-ion battery. In this presentation, Chem Power Inc. (LGCPI), the North American we will show how online thermodynamics data • Next-Generation Battery Research 1:45 Past, Present and Future of subsidiary of lithium-ion battery maker, LG collection and processing addresses the SOC Lithium-Ion Batteries. Can New Chem (LGC), Korea. In this position, she has and SOH determination. We found a universal • Lithium-Ion Development Technologies Open Up New overall responsibility for the strategic direction, rule, which applies to all LIB tested at any SOH & Commercializationn Horizons? engineering, and business development (ageing), that is the SOC is a linear function of manufacturing Yoshio Nishi, PhD, Executive Alumni, activities for the North American market. The entropy and enthalpy. Linearity coefficients are stream Sony Corporation majority of her professional career, nearly LIB chemistry and SOH dependent. Therefore, • High Performance Battery Mr. Yoshio Nishi is retired senior vice president 30 years, was spent at General Motors in the the thermodynamics assessment method Manufacturing and chief technology officer of the Sony USA. Director of Battery Systems Engineering, teaches on the type of cathode material and on • Lithium-Ion Development Corporation. He graduated in 1966 from the Director of Transmission Controls Engineering, the degree of anode and cathode degradation as Faculty of Applied Chemistry of the Department Director of Powertrain Controller Engineering, the battery ages. & Commercialization of Technology at Keio University in Tokyo Director of Powertrain Software Engineering, applications stream and immediately joined Sony, where he rose and development of powertrain and vehicle through the ranks to become corporate research electrical systems were her core engineering 2:45 Refreshment Break in the Exhibit Hall with • Advances in Automotive Poster Viewing Power Applications fellow, vice president, and president of the responsibilities. A review of the current global company’s materials laboratories. In 1991 his trends in vehicle electrification and automotive • Power Applications for Improvements in Pack Modeling Consumer Electronics team succeeded in the commercialization of battery technologies will be presented. This the first lithium-ion secondary batteries (LIB). will be carried out highlighting LG Chem’s 3:30 Organizer’s Opening Remarks • Alternatives in In 1994 he received technical awards from participation in the various segments from Victoria Mosolgo, Conference Producer, Energy Storage the Electrochemical Societies of both Japan materials, cell and cost points of view. Cambridge EnerTech engineering stream and the United States in recognition of his 3:35 Chairperson’s Remarks contributions to LIB technology. In 2014, Dr. • Battery Safety Craig Arnold, PhD, Director, Princeton Institute for Nishi was awarded the Draper Prize by the 2:25 Addressing Key Battery Issues the Science and Technology of Materials, Princeton • Battery Management National Academy of Engineering for pioneering Systems from a Thermodynamics University and leading the groundwork for today’s lithium- Perspective ion battery. Since the early 1990s, LIBs were 3:40 Effects of Local Phenomena on Battery Rachid Yazami, PhD, School Degradation and Safety HOTEL & TRAVEL introduced into various mobile devices and we of Materials Science & Engineering, were reasonably confident that our customers Craig Arnold, PhD, Director, Princeton Institute for Program Director, Energy Storage, Energy the Science and Technology of Materials, Princeton REGISTRATION would be satisfied with their performance. Research Institute, Nanyang Technological Shortly afterwards, however, we noticed that University University, Singapore Here we discuss effects in Li-ion batteries in which there were some discrepancies between the Rachid Yazami is a French Morrocan scientist performance we offered and that expected by local non-uniformities in battery construction or best known for his research on lithium-ion mechanical stress can couple into the electrochemical Click Here to register Online our customers. Dr. Nishi will discuss here what batteries and on fluoride-ion batteries. He is LIB users really require from secondary batteries. processes of the system and lead to accelerated InternationalBatterySeminar.com the inventor of the graphite anode (negative decay and safety concerns. We present the relevant pole) of lithium-ion batteries. In 2014 Rachid mechanisms and discuss methods of mitigating these Yazami, John Goodenough, Yoshio Nishi and effects in real systems.
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COVER 4:10 Identifying Li-Ion Physics-Based 9:05 Beyond Estimating Battery State of Health: prevented by improved cell-state aware charging Model Parameter Values from Cell-Level Identifiability of Individual Electrode Capacity controls such as MaxLife charging or in some cases SPONSORSHIP Current/Voltage Data and Utilization detected in early stages, giving manufacturer exact & EXHIBIT Gregory Plett, PhD, Professor, Electrical and Computer Anna Stefanopoulou, PhD, Professor, Mechanical knowledge of time and type of failure. This would Engineering, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs Engineering, University of Michigan allow manufacturer to take quick corrective action and TUTORIALS & Adapting physics-based model parameter values as Degradation of Li-ion battery is the result of a number avoid potential costly recalls. TRAINING SEMINAR battery cells age can result in unstable and physically of physical and chemical mechanisms that take place 11:50 Battery Cycle Life Extension by nonmeaningful models. In this presentation, we at various components of the cell. To maximize the Charging Algorithm AGENDA propose an alternate approach that instead uses an usage but not induce further degradation, estimation Naoki Matsumura, Senior Technologist, Intel Corporation interacting multiple model Kalman filter to select the techniques about the type of degradation and state IOT devices expect Li-ion batteries to have a long cycle r&d stream model from a set of pre-computed pre-aged models of health of the individual electrodes, specifically life because they may be used in areas where battery • Next-Generation Battery that best matches the presently observed input/output their capacities and utilization window, are required. replacement is not easy. This session talks about a Research dynamics of the battery cell under observation. Unlike Their identifiability is studied for different operating method to extend battery cycle life through battery • Lithium-Ion Development other approaches, this method guarantees stable and windows given that there are practical limitations in charging algorithm. This is expected to reduce the cost & Commercializationn physically meaningful models that track cell parameter the availability of data for deep discharged and full of ownership as it enables less battery replacement. values over the lifetime of the cell. charged states in real world battery applications. It manufacturing is shown that having stress data in addition to the 12:20 pm A Unique Lithium Technology to Power stream 4:40 Precise Power-Limit Estimation for Lithium the World’s Smallest Fully Implantable Spinal Cord Ion Batteries Using Physics-Based Constraints and voltage measurements at phase transitions provides • High Performance Battery better identifiability of the individual electrode Neurostimulator Predictive Methods Erik Scott, PhD, Bakken Fellow, Technical Fellow, Direct Manufacturing Scott Trimboli, PhD, Assistant Professor, College of parameters. It is noted that the dF/dQ data augment • Lithium-Ion Development the long-established method, Differential Voltage of Advanced Development, Medtronic Engineering & Applied Sciences, University of Colorado, Medtronic is a world-leader in implantable medical & Commercialization Analysis (DVA), followed by electrochemists which Colorado Springs devices with over forty years of experience in battery Electric vehicle battery management systems must depends on terminal voltage data across phase applications stream transitions used to compute shifts in the peak R&D and manufacturing for demanding applications. be able to determine, in real time, the available power In 2017, Medtronic released its newest generation of • Advances in Automotive that may be provided by the battery pack. Similarly, locations in the dV/dQ curve. Power Applications implantable neurostimulator. The IntellisTM spinal in rechargeable packs, it is required to determine 9:35 Accelerating Development of High Nickel NMC cord stimulator uses the proprietary OverdriveTM • Power Applications for how much charge power the pack can accept. Such Cathodes- Improved Lifetime and Durability Consumer Electronics lithium-ion battery technology, specifically designed for power limits should ensure that the pack will not Dee Strand, PhD, CSO, Chemistry, Wildcat Discovery the critical requirements of miniaturized implantable • Alternatives in suffer damage by exceeding charge or voltage limits Technologies devices. OverdriveTM technology enables miniaturized Energy Storage or by exceeding a design current or power limit. This High energy cathodes, such as NMC811 can deliver cells that can be recharged very rapidly while showing paper describes a method that uses a physics-based improved energy density relative to today’s materials. engineering stream negligible capacity fade over many years of continuous dynamic cell model and predictive optimization to However, it suffers from poor lifetime and durability. use. The solution is also tolerant of deep discharge, • Battery Safety accurately compute battery-pack available power. Variations in electrode composition can impact unlike traditional lithium ion chemistries. Highlights of • Battery Management 5:10 Networking Reception in Exhibit Hall with the performance of the material. This presentation performance data, modeling approach and technical Systems Poster Viewing will highlight parameters that can accelerate insights from development of OverdriveTM technology implementation of NMC811 in applications. 6:10 Close of Day will be discussed. HOTEL & TRAVEL 10:05 Sponsored Presentation (Opportunity Available) 12:50 Session Break Thursday, March 29 10:35 Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall with 1:00 Networking Luncheon (Sponsorship Opportunity REGISTRATION Poster Viewing 7:45 am Registration Open Available) or Enjoy Lunch on Your Own 11:20 Cell Internal Shorts as Next Frontier of 7:45 Interactive Breakout Discussion Groups with 2:00 Dessert Break in the Exhibit Hall with Battery Safety: Types, Prevention and Detection Poster Viewing Continental Breakfast (See website for details.) inside Battery Pack Click Here to register Online 8:45 Session Break Yevgen Barsukov, Head, Algorithm Development, Battery Battery Management for Hybrid InternationalBatterySeminar.com Management Systems, Texas Instruments Modeling for Longer Life and Durability Present battery packs have sophisticated protection Applications 9:00 Chairperson’s Remarks against external device faults, leaving cell internal 2:30 Chairperson’s Remarks Naoki Matsumura, Senior Technologist, Intel Corporation short as the last frontier that needs to be addressed. 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COVER 2:35 FEATURED PRESENTATION: 3:35 Hybrid Battery/Supercapacitor Energy Storage time consuming. Polaris Labs works with a variety Considerations in the Selection of Batteries Systems Supply the Power Demands of Small Devices of developers and strives to help them move quickly SPONSORSHIP to be Used with Supercapacitors in Vehicle Gene Armstrong, Director of Applications, through the development process to full production. & EXHIBIT Applications Engineering, PBC Tech We point out areas to consider in the assessment and Andrew F. Burke, PhD, Research Faculty, Small devices require physically small energy processing of new materials as well as considerations TUTORIALS & Institute of Transportation Studies, University of storage capabilities. Unfortunately, small form factor to ease the transition to full production. TRAINING SEMINAR California, Davis batteries suffer from a lack of ability to deliver the The selection of batteries to be used with peak power and while meeting the supply noise 4:30 PANEL DISCUSSION: The Cost of Quality in AGENDA supercapacitors in plug-in hybrid vehicles requirements of pulsed load applications such as RF Advanced Battery Development and Manufacturing (PHEVs) is analyzed from the design, transmitters, camera flashed or audio speaker drivers. Moderator: John Wozniak, President, Energy Storage and r&d stream performance, and economic points of view. In conjunction with the advances in thin battery Power Consulting • Next-Generation Battery The use of the supercapacitors to load-level the technology, the supercapacitor is well positioned to Panelists: Bruce Miller, Technology Strategist, Dell Research energy storage battery permits the use of an form a hybrid battery/capacitor solution to achieve Brian Cunningham, Engineer, U.S. Department of Energy • Lithium-Ion Development “energy battery” rather than a “power battery” high power delivery in tight spaces. Curtiss Renn, PhD, Senior Scientist, Polaris & Commercializationn in PHEVs. Energy batteries have higher energy Laboratories LLC density, longer cycle life, and lower cost than The Road to Commercialization Additional Panelists to be Announced manufacturing power batteries of the same energy storage stream 4:05 Accelerating the Commercialization and The development of durable and affordable advanced capacity (kWh). Launch of New Battery Materials with Special batteries for use in automotive, consumer electronics • High Performance Battery Focus and Emphasis on Manufacturability of New and stationary applications drives R&D activities. This Manufacturing Materials and Designs panel of experts examines the true cost of quality • Lithium-Ion Development 3:05 Toward Highly Stable Solid-State Unconventional Thin-Film Battery-Supercapacitor Hybrid Devices: Curtiss Renn, PhD, Senior Scientist, Polaris and how approaches to the development of advanced & Commercialization Interfacing Vertical Core-Shell Array Electrodes with a Laboratories LLC batteries must be adapted to avoid the significant applications stream Gel Polymer Electrolyte There are tremendous developments associated pitfalls on the road to commercialization. Jun Li, PhD, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Kansas with new materials to enhance the performance of • Advances in Automotive State University rechargeable batteries and many challenges that 5:30 Close of Conference Power Applications make the transition to full production difficult and • Power Applications for Consumer Electronics • Alternatives in Energy Storage engineering stream • Battery Safety • Battery Management Systems
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