Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Researchers at the University of Maryland have developed a nanocomposite material of amorphous, porous FePO 4 nanoparticles electrically wired by single-wall carbon nanotubes as a potential cathode material for sodium-ion batteries (SIBs). SWNT composite is a promising cathode material for viable sodium-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2013

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) report in a paper in the ACS journal Nano Letters on high-capacity, high-rate sodium-ion (Na-ion) energy storage in functionalized high-surface-area nanocellular carbon foams (NCCF). Sodium-ion intercalation batteries—i.e., Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2013

Flowchart of Molten Sodium Upgrading process. A new company, Field Upgrading (Calgary, Alberta), has been formed dedicated to developing and commercializing the Molten Sodium Upgrading (MSU) technology. When electricity is applied to the ceramic membrane, elemental sodium is extracted through the membrane and recycled to the process.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Sodium-ion batteries (Na-ion, NIBs) are seen as an alternative to lithium-ion batteries for large-scale applications due to their lower cost and abundant supply of sodium. We also demonstrate a battery with the stibnite–graphene composite that is free from sodium metal, having energy density up to 80? Mason, Sudip K.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2014

The study, which provides a joint industry analysis of how different types of batteries are used in different automotive applications, concludes that lead-based batteries will by necessity remain the most wide-spread energy storage system in automotive applications for the foreseeable future. Lead-based batteries.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Tin (Sn) shows promise as a robust electrode material for rechargeable sodium-ion (Na-ion) batteries, according to a new study by a team from the University of Pittsburgh and Sandia National Laboratory. reversible and rapid ion insertion and extraction, but using sodium ions rather than lithium. for the positive electrode.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2023

Swedish sodium-ion battery developer Altris presented a pure Prussian White cathode material with a capacity of 160 mAh/g, making it the highest capacity declared to date. Prussian White is a framework material consisting of sodium, iron, carbon and nitrogen (Na x Fe[Fe(CN) 6 ] with x>1.9). Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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MAY 7, 2022

Sodium-ion battery cathode producer Altris AB ( earlier post ) signed a deal with AB Sandvik Materials Technology to house the company’s first industrial-scale manufacturing facility in Sandviken. V vs sodium. This expertise derives from the Sandvik AB’s long industrial experience in Sweden.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Scheme of the new full sodium-ion battery, which combines an intercalation cathode and a conversion anode. Mn 0.25 ]O 2 layered cathode (NFM), and NaClO 4 in fluoroethylene carbonate and ethyl methanesulfonate electrolyte. For the anode, they selected carbon-modified iron oxide (C-Fe 3 O 4 ) conversion material. Mn 0.25 ]O 2.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2022

containing both cathode and anode properties in the same body—for sodium-sulfur (Na-S) batteries by adopting a metal-organic framework (MOF) to incorporate single Yttrium atoms in a nitrogen-doped rhombododecahedron carbon host (Y SAs/NC). Researchers in China have designed a high-performance Janus electrode—i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2011

published in the ACS journal Chemical Reviews , reviews in detail four stationary storage systems considered the most promising candidates for electrochemical energy storage: vanadium redox flow; sodium-beta alumina membrane; lithium-ion; and lead-carbon batteries. Sodium-beta alumina membrane battery. —Yang et al.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2015

Chemists at the University of Waterloo have identified the key reaction that takes place in sodium-air batteries. Understanding how sodium-oxygen batteries work has implications for developing the more powerful lithium-oxygen battery, which has been proposed by some as the “holy grail” of electrochemical energy storage.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2023

The dominant conventional process for refining battery-grade lithium from hard rocks such as spodumene and lepidolite relies on sulfuric acid and produces sodium sulfate as a byproduct—a waste stream that requires costly and proper disposal. Tesla will use inert reagents such as soda ash and lime.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2022

If this pilot is successful, the windows that are produced this way will be used in models in the Audi Q4 e-tron series in the future. In the future, such PVB layers are also meant to be introduced into a vehicle circuit. That plate glass is then turned into a new car window. from a typical day’s tonnage.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Researchers within the RS2E network on electrochemical energy storage (Réseau sur le stockage électrochimique de l’énergie) in France have developed the first sodium-ion battery in an 18650 format. The main advantage of the prototype is that it relies on sodium, an element far more abundant and less costly than lithium.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Recently, researchers have also found out the instability of electrolyte and carbon electrode under the high charging potential (>3.5 But the necessity of catalysts has been argued, because the catalyst on carbon may not be able to work once its surface is blocked. V), which contributes to the low rechargeability. O 2 batteries.In

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Fraunhofer says that Lithium-sulfur batteries are the most promising choice for future energy storage systems, with novel materials such as nanostructured carbon/sulfur composite cathodes, solid electrolytes and alloy-based anodes expected to enhance significantly the cell’s performance.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2013

In industry, molecular hydrogen and reactive reagents such as sodium borohydride are used as reducing agents during the production of pharmaceuticals, agrichemicals and ammonia for fertiliser. A future aim is to try to convert carbon dioxide into methanol much more efficiently. —Stephen Colbran. McSkimming, A.,

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

We believe green hydrogen will be critical to a decarbonized future, particularly for hard-to-abate sectors. Proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzers use a solid polymer electrolyte, and alkaline electrolyzers use an electrolyte solution, such as potassium hydroxide or sodium hydroxide mixed with water.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2012

A team from Stanford University and Ruhr-Universität Bochum have demonstrated the novel concept of a “desalination battery” that uses an electrical energy input to extract sodium and chloride ions from seawater and to generate fresh water. Click to enlarge. Their paper is published in the ACS journal Nano Letters.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 12, 2024

Stellantis Ventures became a strategic investor of France-based Tiamat, which is developing and commercializing sodium-ion battery technology. According to the legacy automaker, Tiamat is the first company in the world to recently commercialize sodium-ion technology in an electrified product.

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Green Car Congress

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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MAY 14, 2010

Although direct chemical reactions between water and certain metals—alkali metals including lithium, sodium and others—can produce a large amount of hydrogen in a short time, these reactions are too intense to be controlled. the high-school chemistry demonstration of the violent reaction between sodium and water.). Haoshen Zhou.

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

The awardees went through a rigorous process including a review with CalSEED’s curated technical advisory committee, who volunteered their time and expertise to select the most promising future clean energy technologies.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Researchers in China have developed an integrated two-bed continuous flow reactor process for the direct synthesis with high carbon yields (~70%) of dodecanol (C 12 H 26 O) or 2,4,8- trimethylnonane (C 12 H 26 O 2 )—a jet-fuel-range C 12 branched alkane—from methyl isobutyl ketone (MIBK), which can be derived from lignocellulose.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

The active material, conductive carbon and binders are dispersed in a solvent to make a paste, which is initially applied to the metal foil to form a wet coating. It could equally be used on lithium-ion cells as on lithium-sulfur or sodium-ion cells. We are even looking at solid-state batteries.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2019

As predicted, average annual growth of global lithium consumption would still be ~10 % in near future. Consequently, the stable supply of lithium resources has become an issue of increasing concern. Lithium is now obtained mostly from lithium ores and brine lakes.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2013

Fundamental research on innovative processes for the fabrication and theory-based characterization of future PV devices is an emphasis area of this program. Advanced systems such as lithium-air, sodium-ion, as well as lithium-ion with new cathode chemistries are appropriate. Advanced Batteries for Transportation.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2011

Research focuses on supercritical carbon dioxide (S-CO 2 ) Brayton-cycle turbines, which typically would be used for bulk thermal and nuclear generation of electricity, including next-generation power reactors. The supercritical properties of carbon dioxide at temperatures above 500 °C and pressures above 7.6 2009.03.017.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2012

Peter Burns, professor of civil engineering and geological sciences at the University of Notre Dame and a co-author of the new paper, had previously made spherical uranium peroxide clusters, rather like carbon “buckyballs,” that can dissolve or exist as solids. This is a phenomenon that has not been considered before.

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MARCH 1, 2012

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory have developed selenium and selenium–sulfur (Se x S y )-based cathode materials for a new class of room-temperature lithium and sodium batteries. The team built coin cells using carbon nanotube-containing composite Se and SeS 2. Click to enlarge. V) without failure. —Abouimrane et al.

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JUNE 4, 2023

While beneficial to consumers, especially battery manufacturers, the use of such nickel in the battery industry is not sustainable as it has an extremely high carbon footprint and other significant environmental impact. Nornickel remains the largest high-grade nickel producer with one of the lowest carbon footprints.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Graphite is a pure form of carbon. However, the use of silicon is limited by its tendency to expand significantly during charge and discharge, so graphite is expected to remain the main anode material for the foreseeable future. Graphene is a single layer of carbon atoms. Its physical structure allows it to store lithium ions.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2013

Over the years, extensive efforts have been devoted to addressing the first two problems, by encapsulating sulphur particles with conducting materials, including porous carbon, graphene oxide and conductive polymers, in an attempt to improve their electronic conductivity and limit polysulphide dissolution. Click to enlarge. —Yi Cui.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2015

Purdue researchers have developed a process to manufacture carbon-nanoparticle and microsheet anodes for Li-ion batteries from polystyrene and starch-based packing peanuts, respectively. These carbonaceous electrodes could also be used for rechargeable sodium-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2015

Fundamental research on innovative processes for the fabrication and theory-based characterization of future PV devices is an emphasis area of this program. Radically new battery systems or breakthroughs based on existing systems can move the US more rapidly toward a more sustainable transportation future.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Carbon Capture (5 projects). Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. CARBON CAPTURE. Biomass Energy (5 projects). Direct Solar Fuels (5 projects).

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