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Warren T. Jones, Ph.D., P.E.
Course Outline
Frontiers of Engineering: Battery Anxiety Report from the 2014 Symposium on Leading-Edge Engineering – National Academy of Engineering
- Battery Anxiety
- Electrochemical Prozac: Relieving Battery Anxiety through Life and Safety Research
- Challenges in Batteries for Electric Vehicles
- Lithium Ion Batteries and Their Manufacturing Challenges
This course includes a multiple-choice quiz at the end, which is designed to enhance the understanding of the course content.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of the course, the student will understand the:
- Importance improving battery technology for the future and depending less on fossil fuels;
- Role of new testing approaches such as high precision techniques in battery life prediction;
- Approaches to battery safety prediction;
- Challenges in the development of batteries for future electric vehicles;
- Fundamentals of lithium ion batteries and their manufacturing challenges; and
- Additional resources for further study in battery technology.
Intended Audience
This course is intended for all engineers.
Benefit to Attendee
Attendee of this course will understand the nature of the challenges involved in the development of future energy storage systems.
Course Introduction
In 2014 approximately 82 percent of energy use in the United States consumes fossil fuels such as petroleum, coal and natural gas. In terms of sustainability, minimizing dependence on fossil fuel and reducing carbon dioxide emissions are compelling arguments for the electrification of vehicles and to augment the electric grid infrastructure. This course explores future energy storage needs through fundamental and applied materials research.
Batteries are fundamentally compromises among safety, energy density, power density, cost and lifetime. The materials required for batteries are actors in this compromise. This course presents the many ways materials can be engineered to exploit or mitigate systematic coupling and the ways systems can be engineered to exploit their properties and address material limitations.
Course Content
The course content consists of the four sections listed below of the Frontiers of Engineering: Battery Anxiety Report from the 2014 Symposium on Leading-Edge Engineering – National Academy of Engineering.
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Your need to study:
- Battery Anxiety – Jeff Sakamoto and Daniel Steingart
- Electrochemical Prozac: Relieving Battery Anxiety through Life and Safety Research – Alvaro Masias
- Challenges in Batteries for Electric Vehicles – Sarah Stewart, Jake Christensen, Nalin Chaturvedi and Aleksandar Konc
- Lithium Ion Batteries and Their Manufacturing Challenges – Claus Daniel
Course Summary
This course has presented a discussion of future energy storage needs in terms of fundamental and applied materials research strategies. These research strategies include improvements in battery life, safety, battery manufacturing cost and reliability and grid storage as well as the challenges of adapting battery chemistries and large-scale manufacturing for electric vehicles.
Additional Information
The section provides additional resources for those who are interested in pursuing further study of battery technologies.
Major Conference
International Meeting on Lithium Batteries (IMLB) - claims to be the premier international conference on the state of lithium battery science and technology, as well as current and future applications in transportation, commercial, aerospace, biomedical and other promising sectors.
Websites
Journals
Journal of the Electrochemical Society
Books
Gianfranco Pistoia, Lithium-Ion Batteries: Advances and Applications, Elsevier, 2014.
Phillip Weicker, A Systems Approach to Lithium-Ion Battery Management, Artech House, 2013.
Masaki Yoshio and Ralph J. Brodd, Lithium-Ion Batteries: Science and Technologies, Springer, 2009.
Quiz
Once you finish studying the above course content, you need to take a quiz to obtain the PDH credits.
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