Interactive Workshop Day | Friday, 25th June 2010

  • Workshop A: Recycling of Automotive Lithium Batteries – Challenges and Opportunities
  • Workshop B: An introduction to Li-ion batteries (Part I) – Suitable applications and material selection
  • Workshop C: An introduction to Li-ion batteries (Part II) – Challenges and alternative solutions

09:00 – 12:00 Workshop A: Recycling of Automotive Lithium Batteries – Challenges and Opportunities

Recently, increasing concerns on the availability of Lithium for the automotive mass market have emerged. Lithium recycling is certainly an important pillar for a sustainable e-mobility based on Lithium batteries. The interactive workshop will give an overview of recycling methods and highlight the related challenges and opportunities:

  • Recycling processes for Lithium batteries
  • Types of automotive Lithium batteries: compatibility with recycling processes, chances for standardization
  • Design for recycling
  • Transport and logistics
  • Dismantling and mechanical processes
  • Safety
  • Legislation
  • 2nd life applications
  • Cost aspects

Dr. Florian Finsterwalder
Manager Alternative Propulsion, Production Planning and Technology, Daimler AG
Germany

09:00 – 12:00 Workshop B: An introduction to Li-ion batteries (Part I) – Suitable applications and material selection

Lithium-ion batteries are the energy storage system of choice for almost all applications, be it from portable electronics in the consumer electronics industry or power tools to large capacity applications, especially in HEV and EV and renewable energy systems. This versatility of Lithium-ion batteries is mainly due to a large fl exibility in electrode active materials. This workshop will give an introduction to the Lithium-ion technology compared to alternative energy storage solutions, describe the basic concepts and different Lithium-ion systems available on the market today, and fi nally outline several future development trends.

  • General principle and construction of NiMH and Lithium-ion batteries
  • Material selection for Lithium-ion cells
  • Lithium-ion versus Lithium-polymer cells
  • High power Lithium-ion cells
  • Development trends

Dr. Wolfgang Weydanz
Corporate Technology, Siemens AG
Germany

13:00 – 16:00 Workshop C: An introduction to Li-ion batteries (Part II) – Challenges and alternative solutions

This workshop dives deeper into the lithium-ion charging technologies. It will further discuss the infl uence of different parameters and environments on cell aging. It will talk about battery pack configuration and discuss challenges in current applications. Safety is another major concern, which will be discussed from a cell and system standpoint. This is done especially with respect to future high power and long lifetime applications. Alternative technologies that will be discussed are fuel cells and rechargeable metal air technologies.

  • Charging technology for Lithium-ion cells and its infl uence on cycle life
  • Aging behaviour of Lithium-ion cells and prominent mechanisms
  • Pack confi guration and key considerations
  • Safety considerations for cells and packs
  • Fuel cells and metal-air batteries as alternative technologies

Dr. Wolfgang Weydanz
Corporate Technology, Siemens AG
Germany

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