Course content

•Production principals

•Energy in production

•Morphology needs

•Lab exercise; making and testing batteries

Learning outcome

Knowledge:

•Different mixing techniques

•Different electrode manufacturing routes; NMP-, water-, semisolid-, electrode spray-, and electric field deposition based electrode casting. Dry room operation.

•Drying techniques and energy/material recovery

•Calendaring, slitting and packing approach.

•Laboratory electrode production.

•Cell assembly; button-, cylindrical-, prismatic-, and pouch-cell

•Electrolyte filling

•Formation, quality assessment and ageing mechanisms in a LIB.

•SEI-formation and role of SEI

Skills:

The candidate is expected to be able to:

•Describe processing routes and their related dry room conditions and energy needs.

•Understand impact of different morphological characteristics.

•Make and assemble a button cell, using mixer, tape caster and gloveboxes

•Describe the role of SEI in formation and ageing

• Describe ageing factors of different LIBs

Knowledge:

•The candidate can evaluate and compare different electrode processing routes

•The candidate can make an electrode, assemble a button cell and test it electrically.

•The candidate can distinguish different properties relating to manufacturing and evaluate the quality of LIB qualitatively.

•The candidate can assess ageing expectancy based on different operation conditions

Learning methods and activities

8 times 45 minutes lectures.

2 laboratory exercises

Specific conditions

Required previous knowledge

EP6003 Engineering batteries 1

Course materials

Hand outs, notes and articles provided