Topics 2020
1. Lithium ion cells: materials and improvements on properties
- Active components (positive electrode materials, negative electrode materials)
- Inactive components: electrolytes (solid, liquid, polymer and hybrid electrolyte systems), separators, housings, binders, additives, current collectors
- Advances in power and energy density
- Progress in cost reduction
- New electrode and cell design: concepts and performance
- Calendar life and cycle life
- Safety: analysis and improvements on material and cell level
- Theoretical, fundamental and microscopic models
- New and advanced analytic methods in laboratories
2. Beyond and beside lithium-ion technology
- Lithium/air, lithium/sulfur, lithium metal batteries
- Non-lithium technologies (aluminum, calcium, potassium, sodium, magnesium, zinc, dual ion, etc.)
- Progress on other battery technologies (any technology potentially suited for automotive or stationary applications)
- Flow-batteries
- Supercapacitors (incl. hybrids)
3. Batteries for 12 V and 48 V power systems
- Requirements
- Functional safety
- Advances in lead-acid batteries, incl. technology, management, and diagnostics
- Field experience and results of SLI batteries
- Lithium-based batteries for SLI applications
- Hybrids of lead-acid and lithium-based batteries
- Hybrids of batteries and supercapacitors
4. Battery systems
- Battery aging (experimental investigations, modeling, lifetime prediction, etc.)
- Battery modeling (electrical, thermal, mechanical, performance, lifetime, parameterization, etc.)
- Parametrization: impedance and physico-chemical approaches
- Battery diagnostics (SOC, SOH, aging, performance, etc.)
- Battery management: cell balancing, charge and thermal management, etc.)
- Test procedures and results from field and laboratory tests on lifetime, performance and safety
- Reliability of different battery pack designs
5. Automotive and mobile applications
- Novel use of battery storage systems in automotive applications (requirements, solutions, future technologies, etc.)
- Advances in battery electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles
- Future on-board power supply technologies (12 V, 48 V, micro and mild hybrids, topologies, etc.)
- Impact of ultra-fast charging on battery cell and system design
- Combined battery systems (lead-acid, supercapacitors, li-ion, etc.)
- Heavy-duty, public transport and off-road applications
- Field experience, lifetime and reliability data, new technologies/applications, requirements and solutions to new applications
6. Stationary battery systems
- Storage systems for grid stabilization, PV home storage, power supply for fast charging, teaming-up several services to one system, etc.
- Field experience, operational strategies, lifetime, sizing tools, etc.
- Vehicle to grid (PHEV and EV as grid elements)
- Hardware challenges beyond the battery system (power electronics, safety, BMS hardware, EMV, etc.)
7. Production, 2nd life and recycling of battery systems and cells
- Machinery and procedures for battery and cell manufacturing
- Production process design and quality control
- Formation, supply chain, logistics
- Optimized battery pack design (efficient production, new technologies)
- Second life / second use concepts, long-term storage of batteries
- Recycling (all relevant battery materials)
- Scenarios for battery costs, production capacities, markets
8. Markets
- Market overview (capacity, manufacturer, chemistries, cell designs, etc.)
- Market forecast (automotive, stationary, consumables)
- Availability of raw materials
9. Teaching batteries
- Educational and didactical concepts
- University teaching of battery topics
- Vocational retraining on battery issues
