Life Power® P2 - Phostech Lithium inc.

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Introduction
Clean mobility and clean energy are two major
challenges that the world is facing today. The automotive
industry is actively working on the mobility
challenge with the development of new hybrid
and electric vehicles. At the same time, conscious
efforts to use more renewable sources for energy
generation have boosted the need for energy
storage that can manage the variable power output
of solar and wind systems.
The fundamental building block for both of these
applications is the rechargeable battery.
Süd-Chemie produces two of the primary materials
used for batteries – the cathode and the anode –
that provide superior electrochemical performance
and enhanced safety and affordability. It is the
combination of these critical properties that best
meets the clean energy and mobility needs of today.
The cathode material from Süd-Chemie is made from
Lithium Iron Phosphate, LiFePO 4 , which is the only
inherently safe cathode material discovered to date.
Life Power ® P2
In the 1990’s, Professor John B. Goodenough
discovered that LiFePO 4 , often referred to as LFP,
could be a good cathode material for Lithium
ion batteries. Later research showed that the
application of a carbon coating provided an
additional boost in performance. In 2001,
Süd-Chemie developed a process that produced
a high performance carbon-coated LFP that
addresses the performance demands of the
energy storage applications.
This new class of battery materials from
Süd-Chemie is known as Life Power ® . These high
power cathode materials deliver superior performance,
safety and cycle-life in all energy storage
applications. In particular, LFP is emerging as the
preferred material for batteries for electro-mobility
due to its intrinsic safety, high power, and fastcharging
capability. This unique safety performance
can be translated to lower system cost with less
demand on the energy management systems in the
final product.
For stationary applications, batteries based on LFP
can provide the storage needed to manage the
variable power generation of renewable sources
such as such as wind and solar. In some regions of
the world, renewable energies now provide more
than 10% of the energy production, and many
countries have long term plans to produce 50% or
more of their energy through green technologies.
Batteries are the key to balancing the generation
fluctuations, either with large centralized units or
smaller decentralized solutions.
Several companies are now working on home-based
energy storage systems (ESS) with Lithium ion batteries.
And, as with automotive applications, safety
and long-life are key demands from the market.
Süd-Chemie Life Power ® P2 provides an answer to
both demands. It offers the inherently safe cathode
material LFP in combination with Lithium Titanate,
Li 4 Ti 5 O 12 . In tests this combination has proven
>20.000 cycles, thus indicating that those systems
may last for 20 years.