Battery Breakfast Breakout Discussion Groups
Grab coffee and breakfast and join a discussion group. These are moderated discussions with brainstorming and interactive problem solving, allowing conference participants from diverse backgrounds to exchange ideas and experiences and develop future collaborations
around a focused topic.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31 | 8:00 - 9:00 AM
Approach to Failure Modes and Effects Analysis
Moderator: Judith Jeevarajan, PhD, Research
Director, Electrochemical Safety, Underwriters Laboratories, Inc.
- Approaches to hazard analysis and risk assessment (FTA, FMEA, fish bone, bow-tie, etc.)
- Identification of hazards and risk
- Determination of probability and severity of risk
- Is modeling a good approach to hazard analysis and risk assessment?
- Mitigation of risks to reduce the severity and probability of hazards
Improving Safety, Lifetime, and Performance through Better Battery Diagnostics
Moderator: Alexej Jerschow, PhD,
Professor, Department of Chemistry, New York University
- What are the unmet needs in battery diagnostics? What is the cost of unmet diagnostics needs?
- Which defect and parameter detection do we care most about?
- Which diagnostic would be desirable for lifetime prediction?
- What is the role of diagnostics in manufacturing, integration, quality control, end use, research & development?
Advanced Current Collectors: Current Collectors That Are Lightweight, Are Porous, That Break, That Burn Out
Moderators: Carl Hu, CTO, Soteria Battery Innovation Group
Amy Brinson, Customer Service Representative, Soteria
Battery Innovation Group
- Can advanced current collectors be used to eliminate safety events, reduce cost and reduce weight?
- What innovations have been done in advanced current collectors?
- What additional performance can be obtained over solid foil collectors?
- What is the availability and state of commercialization of advanced current collectors?
Durability Design of Li-Ion Batteries in Vehicle Applications
Moderator: Kem M. Obasih, PhD, PE, Technical Leader
- Thermal, Engineering Modeling & Simulation, Johnson Controls Advanced Power Solutions
- Battery chemical life
- Battery mechanical life design – Durability – Components load determination
- Thermal loads
- Mechanical loads
- Shock and vibrations
- Durability design basics
- Stresses determination
- Strain determination
- Fatigue determination
- Materials S-N curves and load counting
- Fatigue life predictions
- Strain life
- Stress life
- Infinite life
- Accelerated life testing
Innovative Thermal Management System Techniques
Moderators: William Q. Walker, PhD, Aerospace
Technologist, Engineering Directorate (EA), Structural Engineering Division (ES), Thermal Design Branch (ES3), NASA Johnson Space Center
Joe Boswell, CEO and Co-Founder, ThermAvant Technologies
- High conductivity (high-k) materials other than standard aluminum
- Advances in interstitial aluminum heat sinks
- Advances in phase change material heat sinks
- Advances in interstitial insulation
- Unique active thermal management techniques
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2 | 8:00 - 9:00 AM
Advancement in Anodes
Moderator: Min-Kyu Song, PhD, Assistant Professor, Mechanical & Materials Engineering, Washington State University
Next-Generation Technologies
Moderator: James Wu, PhD, Engineer, NASA Glenn Research Center
Market Trends
Moderator: John T. Warner, PhD, Founder/President, Warner Energy Consulting LLC
Characterization Techniques
Moderator: Huolin Xin, PhD, Associate Scientist, Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Additional Breakout Discussions to be Announced