Manufacturing Stream
High Performance Battery Manufacturing
Global Production of Safe, Efficient, Higher Energy Density Batteries
March 27-28, 2018 | Fort Lauderdale Convention Center | Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Advancements in battery manufacturing will be the catalyst for the growth of high
performance electric vehicles and consumer electronics. The battery manufacturing track will take a global perspective on battery manufacturing and will bring together the key stakeholders that represent the complete value chain of battery manufacturing
and will showcase the latest innovations from key manufacturers in Asia, Europe and the United States. With presentations focusing on the latest approaches to assembly, automation, efficiency, inspection methods and cost reduction, valuable insight
will be gained into the entire global manufacturing ecosystem. Conference attendees will gain a critical understanding of the state of manufacturing from around the world and who is leading the way to the future of battery manufacturing.
Monday, March 26
7:00 am - 4:00 pm Tutorial and Training Seminar* Registration Open
7:00 - 8:00 am Morning Coffee
12:30 - 1:30 Enjoy Lunch on Your Own
1:30 - 2:00 Networking Refreshment Break
4:00 Close of Day
*Separate registration required for Tutorials and Training Seminar.
Tuesday, March 27
7:00 am Registration and Morning Coffee
8:10 Plenary Keynote Sessions: Organizer’s Opening Remarks
Craig Wohlers, Executive Director, Conferences, Cambridge EnerTech
8:15 How Does the Electrolyte Change during the Lifetime of a Li-Ion Cell?
Jeff Dahn, PhD, Professor, Canada Research Chair, NSERC/Tesla Canada
Industrial Research Chair, Department of Chemistry, Dalhousie University
Jeff Dahn is recognized as one of the pioneering developers of the lithium-ion battery that is now used worldwide in laptop computers and cellphones. This presentation will examine how the electrolyte changes during the lifetime of the cell.
8:45 Uber Elevate - Powering an Electric UberAIR Future
Celina Mikolajczak, Director of Battery
Development, Uber
Celina Mikolajczak will be speaking about the Uber Elevate initiative and sharing vision for how vertical take-off and landing vehicles will change the world, as well as the energy storage needs required to power UberAIR missions in the years
ahead.
9:15 Networking Coffee Break
9:45 Organizer’s Opening Remarks
Craig Wohlers, Executive Director, Conferences, Cambridge EnerTech
9:50 Chairperson’s Remarks
Ratnakumar Bugga, PhD, Principal Member Technical Staff, Electrochemical Technologies Group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
10:00 Challenges, Risks, and Opportunities for a Rapid Expansion of xEV Batteries and Materials
Sachiya Inagaki, General Manager, Industrial Technology Unit, Yano Research Institute, Ltd.
So far, xEV market has grown thanks to policies and subsidies. But, are those supports sustainable? I will talk about how we should see the xEV market based on what we are facing now.
10:30 Li-Ion Technology for Space, Defense, Racing and Industrial Applications
Thomas Greszler, Cell Development Manager, Saft America
Research, development and new products for specialty applications/markets which require currents >100C-rate or temperatures >100°C or very long life or inherent safety will be discussed.
11:00 The Study of Thermal Management System with Intelligent Temperature Control for Power Battery Pack
Jimson Jiang, Senior Engineer, Research & Development, EVE Energy Co., Ltd., China
The thermal management system, which adopts advanced thermal management scheme and intelligent control strategy, can guarantee that the pack works at an optimum and uniform temperature during the charging and discharging processes at different
climate conditions.
11:30 Roll to Roll Coating and Drying of Lithium Ion Battery Electrodes
Scott Zwierlein, Coating Process Engineer, Coating
and Drying Equipment, Frontier - a Delta ModTech Company
Frontier offers experience in the development of coating machines. We will discuss the various aspects of the coating and drying process for producing Li-ion battery and capacitor electrodes, fuel cells, energy storage and membranes. In addition,
we will discuss the latest advancements and innovations to improve quality and increase yields.
11:45 Youlion Enters the GWh Factory Competition
Huanyu (Henry) Mao, PhD., Chairman & General Manager, Suzhou Youlion Battery Inc. & Franz Josef Kruger, PhD, BatteryConsultants S.A.
Youlion Battery Inc., founded 2014 in Suzhou, has started their fully automated production of prismatic (VDA format) cells in their first 1 GWh facility, in autumn, 2017. With their already existing production line for cylindrical cells, this
brings up their total production capacity to 1.5 GWh per year, with definitive plans for expansion up to 2.5 GWh, in 2018. While their cylindrical cells are already used by numerous e-bus customers in China, their prismatic cells are aiming
for the worldwide EV and xEV markets. Based on advanced Graphite/NCM chemistries, Youlion prismatic cells are designed for high power or high energy applications with fast charge capabilities of 3C, and higher.It will be demonstrated that
Youlion cells and battery packs surpass most stringent automotive performance and safety requirements.
12:05 pm Networking Luncheon
12:55 Networking Refreshment Break
1:25 Chairperson’s Remarks
Craig Rigby, Advanced Market & Technology Strategist, Johnson Controls
1:30 FEATURED PRESENTATION: Glass Battery Cells in Numbers
M. Helena Braga, PhD, Professor, Engineering Physics Department, University of Porto, Portugal and Materials Science and Materials Engineering Department, University of Texas at Austin
John Goodenough, PhD, Professor, Virginia H. Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
The Li+ or Na+ glass electrolyte with a cation conductivity σi > 10-2 S cm-1 at 25°C and a dielectric constant, ε’r > 103 at 0.1 Hz
that is wet by a metallic lithium or sodium anode is used to develop a new strategy for an all-solid-state, rechargeable, metal-plating battery. We will make an overview on the calculations, ab initio simulations
and experimental data to explain how the glass cells work. The result is a safe, low-cost, lithium or sodium rechargeable battery of high energy density and long cycle life.
2:00 High Energy and Long-Life Li-S Cells with High-Loading Cathodes
Ratnakumar Bugga, PhD, Principal Member Technical Staff, Electrochemical Technologies Group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
At NASA/JPL, we have been developing high energy and long-life lithium-sulfur cells for NASA and DoD applications. Our approach is based on using: i) Composite high area-specific capacity sulfur cathodes, blended with metal sulfides, ii) polysulfide
blocking layers based on ceramic/organic coated polymeric separators, and iii) protected lithium anode. These approaches have resulted in laboratory Li-S cell showing high sulfur utilization (800 mAh/g) even in dense cathodes stable through
>100 cycles.
2:30 Next Generation Anodes for Li-Ion Cells: How to Achieve Both High Capacity and Cycle Stability When Using Silicon Metal
Jeff Norris, PhD, CEO, Paraclete Energy
Surface modification of silicon particles functions both as artificial SEI while preventing silicon from exposure to electrolyte. Paraclete’s surface modification architecture is covalently bonded directly to silicon’s surface
(not through surface oxides) enabling the silicon to expand without substantial contact with electrolyte, resulting in a highly stable surface for SEI formation, increasing the cycle stability of the cell. Paraclete’s SM-Silicon’s
morphology leads to a rate capability, tap density and a low ICL as conventional graphite.
3:00 Grand Opening Dessert Break in the Exhibit Hall with Poster Viewing
3:45 Separator, Solid State Electrolyte and Challenges for Future High Energy Batteries
John Zhang, PhD, Senior Technical Executive Officer, Asahi Sasei
Separator
Separator has been widely used in Li-ion batteries, and its performance has been greatly enhanced by ceramic coatings. Meanwhile, the attempt to replace traditional separator by solid state electrolyte to make safe all solid lithium batteries
with lithium metal anode have been announced by many research institutes as well as Toyota. I will show the hope of new era on battery progress. We will discuss the challenges and realities of the hope.
4:15 Supply Chain Dynamics and How This Will Impact the Price Targets of Li Ion Industry
Kurt Vandeputte, Vice President, Rechargeable Battery Materials Business Unit, Umicore
4:35 PANEL DISCUSSION: Investing in Growth on the Path to Profitability in Energy Storage
Moderator:
Craig Rigby, Advanced Market & Technology
Strategist, Johnson Controls
Making significant investments in large-scale capacity without a clear path to profitability is one of the primary challenges in the development and mass adoption of advanced batteries. How can the production capacity for batteries match the
projected growth rate for electric vehicles without a reasonable return on investment? This panel will examine ways in which the battery industry must adjust in order to achieve long term viability and profitability.
5:15 Transition to Breakout Discussions
5:20 Interactive Breakout Discussion Groups
Participants choose a specific breakout discussion group to join. Each group has a moderator to ensure focused discussions around key issues within the topic. This format allows participants to meet potential collaborators, share examples
from their work, vet ideas with peers, and be part of a group problem-solving endeavor. The discussions provide an informal exchange of ideas and are not meant to be a corporate or specific product discussion.
TABLE 1: Lessons Learned from the Samsung Galaxy Note7 Battery Safety Events
Shmuel De-Leon, CEO, Shmuel De-Leon Energy, Ltd.
TABLE 2: Need, Status, and Future Prospects of New Battery Materials
Maximilian Fichtner, PhD, Executive Director, Helmholtz Institute Ulm (HIU); Managing Director, Energy Storage Group, Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
TABLE 3: Unmet Needs and Opportunities in Battery Diagnostics
Alexej Jerschow, PhD, Professor, Chemistry Department, New York University
TABLE 4: Silicon Anodes and Cells
Benjamin Park, PhD, Founder & CTO, Enevate
TABLE 5: High Energy Density and Improved Safety with Enhanced Current Collectors
Brian Morin, PhD, CEO, Soteria Battery Innovation Group
TABLE 6: Cell Manufacturing
Raf Goossens, PhD, CEO, Global Corporate Management, PEC
TABLE 7: What Do I Really Have to Do to Ship My Small Li-Ion Battery Globally?
Cynthia Millsaps, President and CEO, Energy Assurance LLC
TABLE 8: Preventing Costly Over-Design While Maintaining Safety
Chris Turner, CTO & Vice President, Inventus Power
TABLE 9: Consumer Product Safety
Douglas Lee, Directorate for Engineering Sciences, U.S. Consumer for Product Safety Commission
TABLE 10: SK Innovation’s use of IPR in SK Innovation v. Celgard
Grant M. Ehrlich, PhD, Partner, Cantor Colburn LLP.
TABLE 11: Electrolyte Developments: New Components and Approaches
Sam Jaffe, Managing Director, Cairn Energy Research Advisors
6:20 Welcome Reception in the Exhibit Hall with Poster Viewing (Sponsorship Opportunity Available)
7:20 Close of Day
Wednesday, March 28
7:15 am Registration and Morning Coffee
7:45 Chairperson’s Remarks
Thomas Greszler, Cell Development Manager, Saft America
7:50 Latest Development of Chinese EV Market with a Cathode Perspective
Yuan Gao, President & CEO, Board Director, Pulead Technology Industry Co., Ltd., China
As the title suggests, I will provide a latest update on the EV market development in China, and its impact on the cathode supply chain going forward. Different technologies will be discussed, and Pulead’s offering will be presented.
8:10 Status and Critical Challenges of Battery Materials for e-Mobility and Energy Storage
Michael A. Fetcenko, Managing Director, BASF Battery Materials, North America, BASF
The long hoped for emergence of electric vehicles has now become a reality. Whether this is full battery electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid, hybrid or start-stop vehicles, the challenge for battery companies and material suppliers is to
provide ever increasing vehicle range, safety, lifetime and cost. To enable a broad and affordable mass market penetration of electromobility and energy storage applications, continuous improvement on the material level is necessary.
The energy storage industry is working on a vast array of cathode material technologies for Li-Ion batteries such as NCA, NCM, and next generation chemistries including high Ni, low Co and Mn enriched formulations. This presentation
will discuss the materials science challenges to today’s and next generation materials with emphasis on the technology roadmap for BASF.
8:30 Lishen’s Progress in Developing the 21700 Cylindrical Cell
Jiang Zhou, Vice President, Lishen Research Institute, Tianjin Lishen Battery Joint-Stock Co., Ltd.
This presentation focuses on the progress of the 21700 cell development at Tianjin Lishen Battery Company. Three types of 21700 cells, viz energy cell, power cell and fast charge cell, are being developed targeting the xEV, ESS, Power
Tool and Portable Mobile Device markets. Benefits of 21700 cells will be discussed and a three-year product roadmap will be presented.
9:00 Vibration Matters in Battery Ultrasonic Welding
Wayne Cai, PhD, Staff Researcher, Research, General Motors
Ultrasonic welding is a mainstream welding technology for Li-ion batteries. While vibration brings energy to the ultrasonic welding process to make a weld, it can also cause potential damages to the welding components or even the systems.
This talk discusses research results and engineering methodologies towards mitigating the detrimental vibration effects on battery and battery electric vehicle manufacturing.
9:30 From Lab to Gigafactory - Scale-Up of LIB Slurry Processing
Adrian Spillmann, Head, Market Segment Battery Solutions, Grinding & Dispersing Technologies, Buhler AG
Electrode slurry production is one of the most critical process steps for the manufacturing of LIB electrodes and essentially impacts the electrochemical performance of the battery cell. However, the traditional batch mixing will no
longer fulfill the future requirements for cost reduction and capacity ramp-up. Buhler have developed a continuous slurry preparation process which enables to significantly reduce investment and operation cost through improved
consistency and yield.
10:00 Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall with Poster Viewing
10:45 The Smart Cell Factory
Raphael Goossens, CEO, General Management, PEC North
America
How Industry 4.0 standards will help cell manufacturers to increase efficiency and reduce their manufacturing costs. The presentation will focus on cell finishing, which is the most complex process in the cell factory.
11:15 Current Environmental Activities Related to Portable Secondary Batteries
Hirohito Teraoka, Chief Technical Officer,
Ni-MH Battery division, FDK Corporation
We would like to discuss environmental activities for portable secondary batteries. We would like to discuss collection and recycling methods and improvements for future benefits. We would like to discuss and promote a future environmental
standard for portable secondary batteries.
11:45 A Closed-Loop Battery Model for Use by Recyclers, Manufacturers, and Researchers
Linda Gaines, PhD, Systems Analyst, Argonne National
Laboratory
This closed-loop system provides the user with not just the cost and environmental impact of a portion of the cycle, but offers a view of the overall impact throughout the entire circular material loop and provides a comparison of
virgin battery builds and batteries using recycled content. The model is designed to permit easy updates as new materials, manufacturing methods, and recycling methods develop and mature.
12:15 pm Luncheon Presentation (Sponsorship Opportunity Available)
1:30 Shep Wolsky Battery Innovator Award and Tribute & Plenary Keynotes
1:45 Past, Present and Future of Lithium-Ion Batteries. Can New Technologies Open Up New Horizons?
Yoshio Nishi, PhD, Executive
Alumni, Sony Corporation
Mr. Yoshio Nishi is retired senior vice president and chief technology officer of the Sony Corporation. He graduated in 1966 from the Faculty of Applied Chemistry of the Department of Technology at Keio University in Tokyo and immediately
joined Sony, where he rose through the ranks to become corporate research fellow, vice president, and president of the company’s materials laboratories. In 1991 his team succeeded in the commercialization of the first lithium-ion
secondary batteries (LIB). In 1994 he received technical awards from the Electrochemical Societies of both Japan and the United States in recognition of his contributions to LIB technology. In 2014, Dr. Nishi was awarded the Draper
Prize by the National Academy of Engineering for pioneering and leading the groundwork for today’s lithium-ion battery. Since the early 1990s, LIBs were introduced into various mobile devices and we were reasonably confident
that our customers would be satisfied with their performance. Shortly afterwards, however, we noticed that there were some discrepancies between the performance we offered and that expected by our customers. Dr. Nishi will discuss
here what LIB users really require from secondary batteries.
2:05 Global Electrification and LG Chem
Denise Gray, CEO, LG Chem Power
Denise Gray is President/CEO of LG Chem Power Inc. (LGCPI), the North American subsidiary of lithium-ion battery maker, LG Chem (LGC), Korea. In this position, she has overall responsibility for the strategic direction, engineering,
and business development activities for the North American market. The majority of her professional career, nearly 30 years, was spent at General Motors in the USA. Director of Battery Systems Engineering, Director of Transmission
Controls Engineering, Director of Powertrain Controller Engineering, Director of Powertrain Software Engineering, and development of powertrain and vehicle electrical systems were her core engineering responsibilities. A review
of the current global trends in vehicle electrification and automotive battery technologies will be presented. This will be carried out highlighting LG Chem’s participation in the various segments from materials, cell and
cost points of view.
2:25 Addressing Key Battery Issues from a Thermodynamics Perspective
Rachid Yazami,
PhD, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Program Director, Energy Storage, Energy Research Institute, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Rachid Yazami is a French Morrocan scientist best known for his research on lithium-ion batteries and on fluoride-ion batteries. He is the inventor of the graphite anode (negative pole) of lithium-ion batteries. In 2014 Rachid
Yazami, John Goodenough, Yoshio Nishi and Akira Yoshino were awarded the Draper Prize by the National Academy of Engineering for pioneering and leading the groundwork for today’s lithium-ion battery. In this presentation,
we will show how online thermodynamics data collection and processing addresses the SOC and SOH determination. We found a universal rule, which applies to all LIB tested at any SOH (ageing), that is the SOC is a linear function
of entropy and enthalpy. Linearity coefficients are LIB chemistry and SOH dependent. Therefore, the thermodynamics assessment method teaches on the type of cathode material and on the degree of anode and cathode degradation
as the battery ages.
2:45 Refreshment Break in the Exhibit Hall with Poster Viewing
3:30 Close of High Performance Battery Manufacturing