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JUNE 8, 2014

Researchers at the University of Maryland, with colleagues at the University of Illinois at Chicago, report on a new method for expanding graphite for use as a superior anode for sodium-ion batteries in a paper in Nature Communications. Sodium (Na) is an earth-abundant and inexpensive element, and shares many properties with lithium.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Swedish battery materials company Altris AB, which specializes in producing highly sustainable cathode materials for rechargeable sodium batteries, has officially opened its first office in China. Altris has developed a method to produce Fennac in a form that is suited for use as a cathode material in sodium-ion batteries. V vs sodium.

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The Driven EV News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

BYD signs a deal to manufacture up to 30 GWh of annual sodium battery production, paving the way for global EV exports. The post BYD to build first sodium-based battery manufacturing plant for EVs appeared first on The Driven.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Building on earlier work, researchers in China have fabricated a hierarchical metal-organic nanocomposite for use as a cathode in sodium-ion batteries (SIBs). 2017) “In-Situ Formed Hierarchical Metal-Organic Flexible Cathode for High-Energy Sodium-Ion Batteries” ChemSusChem doi: 10.1002/cssc.201701484. and Huang, Y.

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MAY 12, 2009

GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt shows a sodium-metal halide battery cell at the press conference announcing the battery plant. GE says the planned facility will produce approximately 10 million sodium-metal halide cells each year—equivalent to 900 MWh of energy storage, or enough to support 1,000 GE hybrid locomotives. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 14, 2021

Solid-state sodium battery company LiNa Energy ( earlier post ) has closed out a £3.5-million LiNa Energy, a spin-out from Lancaster University, established in 2017, is commercializing a safe, cobalt- and lithium-free solid-state sodium battery. million (US$4.8-million) —Dr Gene Lewis, CEO of LiNa Energy.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2021

China’s Tsingshan , the world’s largest producer of stainless steel, will invest $375 million to build a lithium plant in Argentina with French multinational mining and metallurgy company Eramet. Purification of the lithium, then reaction with sodium carbonate to convert it to lithium carbonate.

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Electrek

AUGUST 16, 2024

Natron Energy has announced it will build the first sodium-ion battery gigafactory in the US, in North Carolina.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

A research team led by a group from Peking University has designed a new 3D carbon monolith, Hex-C 57 , using 5–7 nanoribbons as the building block, for use asan anode material for sodium-ion batteries.A paper on their work appears in the Journal of Power Sources. —Sun et al. mAhg −1 ) and volumetric capacity (314.61

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JANUARY 28, 2019

Natron Energy , a developer of new battery cell technology based on Prussian Blue analogue electrodes and a sodium-ion electrolyte, has closed a strategic investment by Chevron Technology Ventures (CTV) to support the development of stationary energy storage systems for demand charge management at electric vehicle (EV) charging stations.

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MAY 6, 2020

Several opportunities will be evaluated over the coming months that could enhance project economics further, including alternative approaches to managing elevated sodium concentrations prior to returning process water to the environment. Sodium Treatment. Tailings Capacity, Phase 1. Capital Requirements. Initial Capital Requirements.

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APRIL 11, 2014

Instead, Wang’s team uses a chemically based method that builds up the material rather than removing it. They then treat the material with a sodium potassium alloy. Micrograph of mesoporous silicon with sodium chloride and potassium chloride salts embedded in the matrix. —Donghai Wang.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 1, 2022

Reliance New Energy Solar Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Reliance Industries Ltd, will acquire 100% shareholding in sodium-ion battery developer Faradion Limited ( earlier post ) for an enterprise value of £100 million (US$135 million). Sodium is the sixth-most abundant element on the planet.

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JULY 2, 2021

A new process developed by the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics IBP is able to isolate almost all of this ash—allowing both the carbon black and the minerals from the ash to be reused. Top, primary product from left to right: raw rCB, clean rCB (96+), pearlized clean rCB (96+). © Fraunhofer IBP.

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JUNE 28, 2013

These projects—led by General Atomics, GE Hitachi, Gen4 Energy and Westinghouse —will address key technical challenges to designing, building and operating the next generation of nuclear reactors. Westinghouse’s project will conduct analysis on sodium thermal hydraulics to support advanced nuclear reactor design.

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MARCH 9, 2011

the Alto), is building a portfolio of research in the cleantech area. The technique uses a solvent such as sodium or potassium hydroxides, converted by reacting with CO 2 to aqueous carbonates or bicarbonates. One possible technique for this might be the use of spray towers, Elrod noted.)

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OCTOBER 22, 2022

NuVision Engineering will design, build, and commission an integrated material accountancy test platform that will predict post-process nuclear material accountancy to within 1% uncertainty in an aqueous reprocessing facility. Award amount: $1,580,774). Award amount: $2,711,342). Award amount: $1,454,074).

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

These SCALEUP “Fast-Track” teams, Natron Energy and Bridger Photonics, will receive $19 million and $5 million, respectively, to further their commercialization efforts in sodium-ion battery development and methane detection technologies, respectively. Natron Energy: Domestic Manufacturing of Sodium-Ion Batteries - $19,883,951.

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APRIL 12, 2023

Nina Fujikawa/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) There are many reactive species in seawater that can interfere with the water-to-hydrogen reaction, and the sodium chloride that makes seawater salty is one of the main culprits. A representation of the team’s bipolar membrane system that converts seawater into hydrogen gas.

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APRIL 2, 2014

For the project, GE provided its Grid IQ Microgrid Control System (MCS), as well as the engineering design services, to help PowerStream build a microgrid, which uses renewable energy resources (wind, solar); a natural-gas generator; and energy storage devices (including GE’s Durathon sodium-metal halide batteries, earlier post ) to provide electricity (..)

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Electric Cars Report

AUGUST 17, 2024

Sodium-ion battery developer Natron Energy announced plans to build the first sodium-ion battery gigafactory in the United States. The facility will be located in Edgecombe County, NC, and is expected to produce 24GW of Natron’s revolutionary sodium-ion batteries annually at full capacity.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2013

They quantified energy and material resource requirements for currently available energy storage technologies: lithium ion (Li-ion), sodium sulfur (NaS) and lead-acid (PbA) batteries; vanadium redox (VRB) and zinc-bromine (ZnBr) flow batteries; and geologic pumped hydroelectric storage (PHS) and compressed air energy storage (CAES).

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

engine that also is new in the 2013 Malibu—and builds on previous GM turbo engines with features that enhance efficiency, durability and refinement. Rotocast aluminum cylinder head with sodium-filled exhaust valves. Rotocast aluminum cylinder head with sodium-filled exhaust valves. l/100 km) and 30 mpg (7.9

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OCTOBER 28, 2010

The PRISM reactor design, which completed US Nuclear Regulatory Commission pre-application reviews in 1994, is an advanced, Generation IV reactor technology that builds on research and development of sodium-cooled reactors. A key attribute of PRISM technology is that it generates additional electricity from recycling used nuclear fuel.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2011

To maximize the benefit of the open structure, the researchers needed to use ions that fit; hydrated potassium ions proved to be a much better fit compared with other hydrated ions such as sodium and lithium. The researchers need to find another material to use for the anode before they can build an actual battery. —Yi Cui.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 20, 2024

US-based startup Natron Energy has announced plans to build a sodium-ion battery gigafactory in the US. billion to build the plant, which will be located in Edgecombe County , North Carolina, part of the Rocky Mount Metropolitan Statistical Area. The company said it will invest $1.4

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2012

Salty soils are a major problem because if sodium starts to build up in the leaves it will affect important processes such as photosynthesis, which is critical to the plant’s success. The salt-tolerant gene (known as TmHKT1;5-A) works by excluding sodium from the leaves.

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JUNE 6, 2012

The new thermochemical cycle devised by the team has four main steps: Thermal treatment of a physical mixture of Na 2 CO 3 (sodium carbonate) and Mn 3 O 4 (manganese (II, III) oxide) to produce MnO (manganese (II) oxide), CO, and ?-NaMnO recovery of Mn 3 O 4 by thermally reducing the sodium ion extracted solid produced in step 3 at 850 °C.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Following closely on the heels of rumors about sodium-ion batteries, BYD announced a new 20 GWh battery factory in China.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2011

The electrolyte is transformed into a sodium sulfate salt, which is then used in textiles, glass, and detergent manufacturing. More than 98% of the batteries are recycled. The post-consumer lead and polypropylene from the batteries will be reused to make more batteries. Iron by-products are used in other industrial processes.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

The project builds on Iveco’s long-running research and development of electric propulsion, which started with the development of the first Daily with pure electric drive in 1986. The prototype, based on a crew cab Daily 55C, is equipped with three sealed Zebra Z5 sodium nickel chloride batteries. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 25, 2014

They also found that the procedure outlined for Li-ion batteries is equally valid for other metal-ion batteries, such as sodium-ion or magnesium-ion batteries. Santanab Giri, Swayamprabha Behera and Puru Jena (2014) “Superhalogens as Building Blocks of Halogen-Free Electrolytes in Lithium-Ion Batteries” doi: 10.1002/ange.201408648.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2022

This new fundraise further builds on the support of existing investors and will support TerraPower’s current implementation efforts. The Natrium technology has a 345MW sodium fast reactor coupled with a molten molten salt integrated energy storage system that will provide clean, flexible energy and stability for the grid.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

Power companies buy windmill electricity generated during the daytime and resell it to households, factories and buildings. In order to store electricity generated at night, windmill operators need to install sodium-sulfur battery systems, which are as costly as power generators.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Grid Command Distribution allows utilities quickly to build circuit models with multiple configurations; assess complex resource deployment scenarios; and. A scripting interface that allows users to build macros—scripts to build repetitive tasks—that integrate seamlessly with the rest of the tool. AEP gridSMART.

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JANUARY 29, 2023

Solvay is investing at its Livorno, Italy site to launch the company’s first unit of circular highly dispersible silica (HDS) made with bio-based sodium silicate derived from rice husk ash (RHA). Rice husk is an abundantly available agricultural waste. This involves working with stakeholders across the entire value chain.

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

To help California mitigate its ever-growing wildfires, this year CalSEED has included companies that are innovating in technologies that will build wildfire resiliency into the grid. EV Life, LLC is building the first online platform that gives drivers everything they need to switch from gas to an electric car.

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