3 Israeli Power Sources Conference - Shmuel De-Leon Energy
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Mr. Christophe Pillot<br />
Avicenne <strong>Energy</strong><br />
www.avicenne.com<br />
Prof. Emanuel Peled<br />
Tel-Aviv University<br />
www.tau.ac.il<br />
3 rd <strong>Israeli</strong> <strong>Power</strong> <strong>Sources</strong> <strong>Conference</strong><br />
Speakers<br />
Daniel Hotel, Herzelia, Israel - May 29-30, 2013<br />
Abstract<br />
"Li-Rechargeable Material Market Review and forecasts 2012-<br />
2025"<br />
We will fist describe the 2012 Lithium ion battery market value chain from the<br />
raw material to the final application. 2012 Lithium ion battery market will be<br />
analyzed and split by applications, form factors and suppliers.<br />
Then, we will detail the Lithium ion Materials market: cathode, anode,<br />
electrolyte and separator market in 2012 will be detail: who are the suppliers,<br />
who are there customers, what are the main trends, what will be the market in<br />
2020, 2025, who are the new entrants?<br />
To conclude, we will present our up-date forecasts for the Li-ion battery market<br />
by application for 2025.<br />
"Sodium-Air Batteries for EV Applications"<br />
The major subject of this presentation is to describe the development of a<br />
novel and low-cost molten-sodium/air battery system for EVs. The surface<br />
tension of the liquid anode is expected to prevent the formation of dendrites<br />
on charge by the absorption of any sodium dendrites that might be formed into<br />
the liquid phase. Sodium is much cheaper and more abundant than lithium.<br />
The theoretical specific energy of the sodium/air cell, on the assumption that<br />
Na 2 O is the discharge product and including the weight of oxygen, is<br />
1980Whkg -1 , about four times that of state-of-the-art LIBs. This study focuses<br />
on the understanding of key parameters affecting the performance of the<br />
electrodes and their impact on the operation of the Na/air cell. A search for a<br />
suitable electrolyte was conducted by investigation of the deposition–<br />
dissolution process of sodium in ionic liquids (ILs) and in ethylene oxide-based<br />
(EO-based) electrolytes. Sodium SEI precursors for a stable, protective SEI on a<br />
sodium anode in both electrolyte systems was also studied. Since the SEI<br />
formed on the anode during battery operation is the most vulnerable factor in<br />
the safety and cycle life of the Na/air battery, the formation of a proper SEI is<br />
critical. The electrochemical-stability window (ESW) of IL-based and EO-based<br />
Bio<br />
Christophe has built up considerable expertise in the area of<br />
battery market. He joined AVICENNE 18 years ago and Spend<br />
3 years in Japan making analysis on the Electronic, Mobile &<br />
Japanese battery market. Christophe gained large experience<br />
in marketing, strategy analysis, technology and financial<br />
studies for the battery and power management fields.<br />
He developed the Battery market analysis for AVICENNE which<br />
counts more than 180 customers worldwide. Christophe<br />
published several annual surveys like “The rechargeable<br />
battery market 2012-2025”. He is also the founder & chairman of<br />
Batteries congress in France since 1999. He is now Director of<br />
AVICENNE ENERGY.<br />
Prof. E. Peled is a world leading scientist in the field of<br />
batteries and fuel cells. He has published over 150 papers<br />
and 45 patents and patent pending in the fields of batteries<br />
and fuel cells. Prof. Peled is the developer of the Solid<br />
Electrolyte Interphase model for active metal nonaqueous<br />
batteries which the key component of lithium batteries. Prof.<br />
Peled with his students, pioneer the development of both the<br />
rechargeable lithium-sulfur battery and the calcium-thionyl<br />
chloride battery, together with Prof. Golodnitsky and Prof.<br />
Nathan, a 3-D on a silicon-chip lithium-ion microbattery and<br />
together with Rafael lithium molten-salt (thermal) batteries.<br />
Rafael is producing these thermal batteries. He and a team at<br />
JPL developed a composite solid electrolyte with t +=1. A<br />
unique state of charge meter (residual capacity) for lithium<br />
batteries has been developed (by a startup Chemtronics that<br />
he was a co-founder) and the technology was transferred to<br />
an <strong>Israeli</strong> electronic company (QPS). Over 1000 units have<br />
been sold; over 95% were exported to USA and in use from
Prof. Doron Aurbach<br />
Bar-Ilan University<br />
www.biu.ac.il<br />
electrolytes as a function of the electrolyte components was measured. The<br />
OCV of the Na/air cell is about 2.2V lower than that of the Li/air cell and thus it<br />
better fits within the ESW. The results show that the faradaic efficiency at<br />
105 o C, defined as the sodium-dissolution charge divided by the deposition<br />
charge, is up to 90% in PYR 14 TFSI-based ionic liquid and ethylene oxide mixed<br />
electrolyte with Na-SEI precursors. In addition, a relatively small Na-SEI rehealing<br />
charge of 0.1mCcm -2 is observed. Sodium-SEI thickness and<br />
conductivity vary with temperature, storage time, deposition-dissolution time<br />
and electrolyte components. The performance of the Na/O 2 battery with these<br />
electrolytes and air electrodes with high-surface-area carbon-supported<br />
catalysts was tested in this research. These results, as well as initial results of<br />
cycling molten-Na/air cells with these electrolytes will be reported.<br />
"The frontier in R&D of advanced battery systems, how far can<br />
we drive?"<br />
One of the most important challenges of modern electrochemistry is<br />
development of power sources for electric vehicles (EV). In order to compete<br />
with ICE vehicles, EV should be able to drive several hundreds of kilometers<br />
between charges. In order to use EVs as normal cars, we cannot afford<br />
batteries weighing more than 300-500 Kg. At the moment, Li batteries seem to<br />
be the most mature technology for propelling EVs. In this talk we will review<br />
the state of the art systems (safety concerns govern the choice). Then, we will<br />
review the horizon in terms of new materials that can increase the energy<br />
density of Li ion batteries, not on the account of safety. Then we will review<br />
recent progress & problems related to Li-sulfur and Li air batteries. We will<br />
mention other metal based batteries including sodium ion, sodium air, zinc & Al<br />
air batteries and will examine their chance to contribute to the EV revolution. It<br />
seems that there are several options to use current technologies for full EV<br />
propulsion with the aid of range extenders. We will suggest for that also<br />
electrochemical options.<br />
1991. High power hydrogen bromine fuel cell, direct<br />
methanol and direct ethylene glycol fuel cells having world<br />
record power were developed in his group. From May 1997<br />
to May 2000 he was the director of the Wolfson Applied<br />
Material Research Center and the Gordon Center of <strong>Energy</strong><br />
Studies. He led the committee that established the multi<br />
faculty graduate program in Science and Engineering of<br />
Materials and he serves as its coordinator. From 2003 he is<br />
the chairman of the Fuel Cells and Battery Center (funded by<br />
Israel MOS) and the incumbent of the Nathan Cummings<br />
Chair of Pure and Applied Electrochemistry. He is a cofounder<br />
of EnStorage, a startup company aimed at the<br />
development and commercialization of very large energy<br />
storage systems based on a regenerative fuel cell. For his<br />
achievements in the field of power sources Prof. E. Peled<br />
awarded the Electrochemical Society Battery Division<br />
Research, the Landau research and the International Battery<br />
Associations (IBA) Awards.<br />
Dr. Doron Aurbach is a full Professor in the <strong>De</strong>partment of<br />
Chemistry, fellow of the EC, ISE and MRS and a senate<br />
member in Bar Ilan University (BIU), Ramat Gan, Israel since<br />
1996. He chaired the chemistry department at BIU during<br />
2001-2005. He is an associate editor for 3 electrochemistry<br />
journals (JES, EEL of the ECS) and JSEL (Springer). He founded<br />
the electrochemistry group at BIU (40 people) 27 years ago<br />
(the biggest research group in Israel). The group works in the<br />
following fields: Li ion batteries for electric vehicles and for<br />
other portable uses (new cathodes, anodes, electrolyte<br />
solutions, electrodes-solution interactions, practical systems)<br />
rechargeable magnesium batteries, electronically conducting<br />
polymers, super capacitors, engineering of new<br />
carbonaceous materials, development of devices for storage<br />
& conversion of sustainable energy (solar, wind) sensors and<br />
water desalination. The group currently collaborates with<br />
several prominent research groups in Europe and the US and<br />
with several commercial companies in Israel and abroad. D.<br />
Aurbach published so far more than 400 papers in peer<br />
reviewed journals. He is also the chairman of the <strong>Israeli</strong> Labs<br />
Accreditation Authority (since 2010).<br />
e-mail: aurbach@mail.biu.ac.il
http://www.ch.biu.ac.il/people/aurbach<br />
Mr. Eytan Benhamou<br />
Megtec Systems SAS<br />
www.megtec.fr<br />
"Latest <strong>De</strong>velopments in Coating & Drying of Battery<br />
Electrodes, Recovery and Distillation of NMP"<br />
Battery electrode chemistry and formulation is at the heart of producing<br />
battery cells to achieve a given function such as portable products; power<br />
tools; and vehicular applications. The demands of the industry are calling for<br />
tighter tolerances; higher yields; increased through-put and tighter emissions<br />
limits on the solvents used in the coating materials. This presentation will<br />
examine coating and drying strategies for cathode and anode electrode<br />
materials and solvent recovery and reuse in the process.<br />
Latest <strong>De</strong>velopments in Coating & Drying of Battery Electrodes, Recovery and<br />
Distillation of NMP<br />
Coating & Drying Strategies<br />
Material influence on Quality and Throughput<br />
NMP Recovery and reuse in the Coating Process<br />
Pollution Control & Solvent Emissions<br />
Mr Eytan Benhamou is the Vice President, Web Products<br />
Group for MEGTEC Systems Europe .Mr. Benhamou has<br />
extensive experience in web handling and drying<br />
technologies and products for various industries. He is<br />
leading MEGTEC's efforts to develop the advanced materials<br />
products business in Europe. Mr. Benhamou is graduated in<br />
electrical and electronics engineering. He has been active in<br />
various industry organizations. He is based in MEGTEC's<br />
France office.<br />
Mr. George Vukojicic<br />
LiTHIUM BALANCE A/S<br />
www.lithiumbalance.com<br />
“Li-ion Batteries in Industrial Applications: TCO and commercial<br />
considerations"<br />
Toyota Material Handling Europe (TMHE) is the world’s largest forklift and<br />
warehouse truck manufacturer. Cost reduction and productivity increase, have<br />
always been the underlying driving forces behind innovation and development<br />
initiatives at TMHE. Industrial studies show that 1€ spent on service and<br />
maintenance often translates into 10€ spent on damages and lost income.<br />
Therefore, reducing the impact of the maintenance is the “gold of the<br />
customer”. These words by Håkan Dahllöf, President of TMHE, were the<br />
guideline for development of the new generation battery solution for Toyota’s<br />
industrial trucks. The case study presents the measured economical benefits<br />
with the Li-Ion battery solution compared to the current Lead Acid (L/A)<br />
battery, from the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) prospective. The presentation<br />
is aimed at those who see the cost of Li-Ion as the biggest obstacle to moving<br />
away from L/A. The case presents arguments, hard figures and calculation<br />
methods used to assess the benefits with the change.<br />
Mr. George Vukojicic is a highly qualified sales manager, with<br />
12 Years of experience within project sales, sales<br />
development, Customer relationship management, Key<br />
account and Project Management. Mr. Vukojicic held<br />
leadership roles at Danfoss A/S & Brüel & Kjær A/S and today<br />
is the European Sales Manager at Lithium Balance A/S. He<br />
holds a Bsc. Export Engineering from Copenhagen University<br />
College of Engineering.
PhD. Jasbir Singh<br />
HEL Group<br />
www.helgroup.com<br />
Mr. Isidor Buchmann<br />
Cadex<br />
www.cadex.com<br />
" Avoiding Thermal Runaway in Li-ion and other battery types<br />
by improved thermal Management on calorimetry"<br />
Use of batteries for large scale energy storage and transportation applications,<br />
requires the management (removal) of heat, especially for example when of<br />
fast discharge is taking place. Failure to do so will lead at the very least to<br />
expensive damage but also possibly explosive thermal runaway.<br />
This presentation will present the results of a new experimental method,<br />
isothermal calorimeter, that measures the heat which is generated and hence<br />
provides the specification for a thermal management system. This recent<br />
development permits both cells and battery packs to be directly attached to<br />
cyclers and then under realistic working conditions key thermal data is<br />
produced which can be used directly as specification in a BMS.<br />
Unlike the well established adiabatic (or “ARC” type) calorimetry method which<br />
is generally used for so-called “abuse” testing, isothermal keeps the battery at<br />
the user-defined temperature even as heat is generated by reactions within the<br />
battery. While this is done, the amount of heat being produced – hence wasted<br />
for example – is measured and displayed in real time. Thus, for example when<br />
battery is charged/discharged, heat is generated and this is useful to know but<br />
hard to quantify. This presentation will present a novel method for getting this<br />
information and will be illustrated by data from real battery packs.<br />
This key data is central to the design of thermal management systems and this<br />
will be clearly explained. Data will be presented at different discharge rates and<br />
different environment temperatures, two key variables that affect the<br />
performance and safety of batteries.<br />
It seems that this method can provide much useful data for battery developers<br />
and assist in improving the current designs.<br />
The link and overlap with adiabatic (or “ARC”) calorimeters that focus on<br />
“abuse” testing will be explained and the complementary nature of the<br />
methods illustrated with explosive thermal data from real Li-ion batteries.<br />
“Battery Diagnostics and Monitoring: Advancements in Test<br />
Methods”<br />
Batteries are perishable products that begin to fade the moment they leave the<br />
factory. No single method can identify all battery characteristics, and like a<br />
doctor examining a patient, many methods are needed. Battery monitoring<br />
and diagnostics is complex and technological advances are lagging behind, but<br />
promising discoveries are being made. In his presentation, Buchmann will<br />
address what causes batteries to age and suggest ways to prolong life. He will<br />
introduce new developments to assess the capacity of lead acid battery in 15<br />
seconds with electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, and technology to<br />
Founder and Managing Director of Hazard Evaluation<br />
Laboratory, a company specialising in thermal hazards and<br />
calorimetry, traditionally for the chemical industry but now<br />
increasingly involved in battery safety, especially EV and related<br />
applications.<br />
A chemical engineering graduate of Imperial College (London),<br />
where he undertook a PhD into combustion and explosions, and<br />
then spent many years in process design for the chemical and<br />
petrochemical industries. He is currently developing test<br />
methods and instruments for use in design and testing of<br />
batteries and especially design of thermal management<br />
systems.<br />
Isidor Buchmann is the founder and CEO of Cadex Electronics<br />
Inc. and author of www.BatteryUniversity.com. For three<br />
decades, Buchmann has studied the behavior of<br />
rechargeable batteries in practical, everyday applications, has<br />
written award-winning. articles including the best-selling<br />
book “Batteries in a Portable World,” now in its third edition.
Dr. Brian Morin<br />
Dream Weaver<br />
www.dreamweaverintl.com<br />
rapid-test Li-ion batteries with electrochemical dynamic response. The<br />
presentation will make reference to battery management and its limitations,<br />
as well as an innovative way to measure battery state-of-charge measurement<br />
by magnetism.<br />
" Battery Performance of Nanofiber/Microfiber Separators"<br />
Linear nanofibers and microfibers are combined in wet laid nonwoven<br />
Processes to give separators that are strong and thin, but have higher porosity<br />
(60-70%) and so have much higher ionic flow. Batteries made with these<br />
separators have shown 25 – 60% increase in energy density, 300% higher<br />
power and 4x the recharge rate of similar batteries made with incumbent film<br />
materials. Ionic resistivity is as low as 200 Ohm-cm, compared to 1600 Ohm-cm in<br />
stretched film materials. Temperature stability is also improved, from about<br />
110 C up to 175 C.<br />
New high performance separators are also detailed which have temperature<br />
stability up to 300 C, and the performance of these separators in lithium ion<br />
batteries is shown. Applications include cell phones, laptop and tablet<br />
computers, power tools, and electric and hybrid vehicles.<br />
Dr. Brian Morin is President and co-Founder of Dreamweaver<br />
International, an early stage company using disruptive<br />
nanofiber technology in a versatile manufacturing process to<br />
improve rechargeable battery performance. Dreamweaver’s<br />
patent pending membranes have so far achieved a 23%<br />
improved energy density, and a 300% higher power output<br />
and recharge rate than similar batteries made with commercial<br />
membranes. A product launch is expected in late 2011, and<br />
applications will range from implanted medical devices to<br />
portable electronics, power tools and hybrid and electric<br />
vehicles. Brian was founder and CEO of Innegrity LLC, a high<br />
performance fiber manufacturing company, from 2004 - 2010. The<br />
company’s first fiber, Innegra, is a structural fiber that delivers<br />
light weight and toughness to composite materials at a cost<br />
that is far lower than other alternatives. Brian was co-founder and<br />
Chairman of Invenca LLC, which is dedicated to bringing<br />
best-in-the-world purification methods to markets where they have<br />
previously been cost prohibitive. Brian previously spent nine<br />
years in the Research Division of Milliken & Company, where<br />
he served as a Team Leader for the Advanced Yarns Team, as<br />
Intellectual Property Champion, and as Safety Chairman. At<br />
Milliken, he saw the success of several key business leaders<br />
who have a doctorate in a technical field, and took a keen<br />
interest in business, product development and management.<br />
Prior to working at Milliken, Brian received his Ph.D. and M.S.<br />
degrees in physics from The Ohio State University in Columbus Ohio.<br />
He received his B.S. degree in physics from the University of
Mr. Ricardo Burstein<br />
Interplate<br />
www.interplate.co.il<br />
Ph.D. Christian Brunig,<br />
Clariant<br />
www.clariant.com<br />
" Potential Applications of coating technologies in the<br />
renewable energy industry"<br />
Modern plating and Nano-electroplating is a developing field that enables<br />
novel applications in the renewable energy industry.<br />
New coating technologies may be applied on a large range of base materials in<br />
order to change it to a new product with desirable surface properties.<br />
These features can be expressed in mechanical strength, chemical composition,<br />
surface morphology, catalytic, optical characteristics etc.<br />
Typical uses of coatings were for the application protective and corrosion<br />
prevention.<br />
The new high performance coatings can be used for the manufacture of<br />
electrodes for fuel cell, high solar absorption for the thermo-solar energy<br />
production.<br />
Low friction/wear resistant coating can increase dramatically the efficiency in<br />
the production of Eolic energy and other mechanical systems where moving<br />
parts are involved.<br />
A brief summary of these emerging plating technologies will be presented for<br />
the consideration of new potential applications and developments.<br />
" High volt materials for lithium ion batteries, material research<br />
and electrochemical testing"<br />
During the last two decades lithium ion batteries have attracted considerable<br />
interest due to the increasing demand for energy storage systems in portable<br />
computing, telecommunication equipment and power-tools. Lithium ion<br />
batteries of high safety and cycle life are also urgently required for the growing<br />
demand for automotive applications or off-grid energy storage. This is the<br />
major reasons for many research projects dealing with new materials which<br />
can provide higher voltage or higher capacities in lithium ion batteries resulting<br />
in higher energy density.<br />
The business line “energy storage” of Clariant has a clear sustainability strategy:<br />
Based on the main product lithium iron phosphate compounds with a higher<br />
operating voltage should be developed for future battery applications. The<br />
presentation will start with a short summary of the properties of the Clariant<br />
lithium iron phosphate followed by an overview of our research results which will<br />
North Carolina in Chapel Hill, NC and was a member of the<br />
fourth graduating class from the North Carolina School of<br />
Science and Mathematics.<br />
Ricardo Burstein holds B.Sc. Chemical Engineering at the<br />
Technion Institute – Haifa and M.Sc Business Administration,<br />
Tel Aviv University. Founder and CEO of Interplate Ltd. and<br />
Nanoplate Ltd. engaged in the development and application of<br />
metal coatings for aerospace and renewable energy.<br />
During 30 years of activity in the <strong>Israeli</strong> market has<br />
contributed in the development of industrial products by<br />
specifying and the application of coatings technologies.<br />
In recent years, as CEO of Interplate has promoted the<br />
cooperation in the field of renewable energy by establishing<br />
a research and development department for the purpose of<br />
providing solutions to the demands of this emerging industry.<br />
Dr. Christian Brünig joined the R&D department for battery<br />
materials of Süd-Chemie, which has become part of the<br />
Clariant group, in January 2011 as a project manager and<br />
research scientist. He is in charge of the R&D activities which<br />
deal with high volt (5 V) cathode materials of Clariant. Within<br />
the scope of these projects Mr. Brünig is responsible for the<br />
synthesis and electrochemical testing of high volt compounds<br />
for lithium ion batteries. His educational background is in<br />
inorganic chemistry. He took his doctoral degree in “Chemical<br />
vapor synthesis of lithium ion conducting oxides” at the<br />
University of Hannover in 2010.
Prof. Yair Ein-Eli<br />
Technion Institute<br />
www.technion.ac.il<br />
Mr. Richard Rogers<br />
Arbin Instruments<br />
www.arbin.com<br />
show the efforts and challenges of preparing and testing nickel doped manganese<br />
spinels (LiMn2-xNixO4). Focused will be the synthesis and material research with<br />
regard to synthesis conditions and different ratios of manganese and nickel.<br />
Furthermore electrochemical testing results for cycle life and rate capability<br />
against the background of decomposition of the electrolyte at a high operating<br />
voltage around 5 V will be shown. Moreover safety issues of the spinel-type<br />
materials will be compared to layered oxides and olivine compounds.<br />
"Rechargeable Li-air batteries...Shame or Fame?"<br />
Li/air batteries are potentially viable ultrahigh energy density chemical power<br />
sources, which could offer practical specific energies up to ~ 3000 Wh/kg being<br />
rechargeable. The modern state of art and the challenges (as well as the<br />
problems) in the field of Li/air batteries are considered. Although their<br />
implementation holds the greatest promise in a number of applications ranging<br />
from portable electronics to electric vehicles, there are also impressive<br />
challenges (problems) in development of cathode materials and electrolyte<br />
systems of these batteries. Is the rush for Li-air battery technology is really<br />
justified or is it just a false hype? We will try to answer this question in our talk.<br />
" New Technology that Accelerates <strong>De</strong>velopment of EV and Grid<br />
Storage Batteries"<br />
New advanced batteries with longer life are required for electrification of the<br />
vehicle fleet and grid integration of energy storage. Battery cycle life<br />
requirements for electric vehicles, plug-in hybrids, hybrid electric vehicles and<br />
grid-based energy storage systems far exceed those of the consumer<br />
electronics market. As a result, the charge/discharge test plan necessary to<br />
validate new battery chemistries for the long cycle life of these applications<br />
requires a great deal of time and significant expense.<br />
After graduating from Bar-ilan University in 1995, Yair Ein-Eli<br />
was a post doctoral fellow between the years 1995-1997 at<br />
Covalent Associates Inc located in MA, U.S.A., where he<br />
eventually headed the Li-ion research group until 1998. He<br />
then proceeded and joined Electric Fuel Ltd. (Israel) and was<br />
appointed Director of Research and Battery Technology. In<br />
2001 he joined the <strong>De</strong>partment of Materials Science and<br />
Engineering at the Technion.<br />
Current research projects of Prof. Ein-Eli in the field of power<br />
sources involve advanced materials for Li-ion batteries,<br />
alkaline, metal-air cells and PEM fuel cells. Prof. Ein-Eli is also<br />
engaged in research and development of electroplating<br />
methods for solar and microelectronic applications, as well as<br />
corrosion inhibitors studies.<br />
Richard Rogers is an application engineer for Arbin<br />
Instruments. He has personally experienced the dramatic<br />
growth of the battery industry over the past four years.<br />
Richard has worked on hundreds of different energy storage<br />
testing projects across the USA, Europe, and Asia. He has<br />
interacted with leading scientific experts during this time and<br />
gained valuable insight into industry trends. Richard<br />
graduated from the College of Engineering at Texas A&M<br />
University.<br />
There has been little motivation to develop a new technology for testing and<br />
evaluating batteries based on the past consumer electronics market because<br />
any improvement would have marginal impact due to shorter lifespan<br />
expectations. However, automotive and grid storage applications require<br />
much longer life and thus need a better way to evaluate and predict their cycle<br />
life to accelerate future developments.
Ph.D. Florian Christopher<br />
Werner Schott<br />
NETZSCH<br />
www.netzsch-grinding.com<br />
Dr. Uwe Wiedemann<br />
AVL LIST GMBH<br />
www.avl.com<br />
Arbin Instruments is partnering with Ford Motor Company and Sandia National<br />
Lab to create a new testing system that will dramatically reduce the time, cost,<br />
and effort required to evaluate new battery chemistries and technologies,<br />
vastly increasing the pace of innovation in the energy storage industry.<br />
" Grinding and Dispersion Technology for Production of modern<br />
Lithium-Ion-Batteries"<br />
Researchers demonstrated correlations between the mean particle size of<br />
active materials and the electro-chemical performance of lithium-ion-cells.<br />
Resulting challenges for the process technology will be addressed in the<br />
presentation. The main focus will be the grinding and dispersing of active<br />
materials as well as state-of-the-art slurry mixing technologies. Possible<br />
machine concepts will be introduced.<br />
" High-Reliability Pouch Cell Connection and Cost Aspects of a<br />
Robust BMS Solution"<br />
It doesn’t matter if it is a PHEV or an EV: The battery is the key technology that<br />
decides upon economically attractive, save and reliable e-mobility.<br />
Batteries of the first generation that are currently on the market were<br />
developed to demonstrate a certain electric range with a save technology.<br />
The second generation of batteries that is developed right now needs to<br />
address multiple aspects like costs, reliability, durability, energy density and<br />
hence electric range, recyclability and other typical automotive requirements<br />
that had less emphasis during the first generation.<br />
Regarding cells, price has meanwhile reached a very attractive level within a<br />
few years. An energy density target of 200 Wh/kg will be reached in the next<br />
generation of cells.<br />
Now it is crucial to reduce costs on the battery pack system side<br />
correspondingly. Every component shall be assessed and optimized:<br />
connectors, contactors, module electronics, battery control unit, housing, etc.<br />
This presentation only focuses on two aspects: a robust and cost-wise<br />
attractive BMS system and an innovative connection method for pouch type<br />
cells.<br />
• BMS requirements being a cost driver?<br />
- What requirements in a typical BMS specification have the most<br />
significant cost impact<br />
- Technical solutions to overcome cost issue by using state of the art<br />
technology<br />
Dr. Uwe Wiedemann studied Mechatronics at the University<br />
of Aalen, Germany and the University of Teesside, GB. During<br />
his PhD thesis at the University of Ulm he investigated ageing<br />
mechanisms of NiMH cells for HEVs. Since 2003 he is involved<br />
in battery management systems and deals with<br />
electrochemical storage systems. After working in research<br />
and development departments at Daimler AG and Robert<br />
Bosch GmbH, he joined AVL List GmbH in 2009.<br />
His current position is Senior Product Manager of AVL’s<br />
Global Battery Competence Team.
Ph.D. Vladimir Yufit<br />
Imperial College London<br />
www.imperial.ac.uk<br />
- Outlook on future BMS architectures<br />
• BMS algorithms beyond SOC calculation<br />
- How to detect early cell failures<br />
- Mid-term life time prediction<br />
• Requirements for innovative connection method for pouch cells:<br />
- High mechanical robustness<br />
- Less impact on cell than laser welding<br />
- Cheaper in manufacturing<br />
- Better electrical performance than existing methods<br />
• Results of connection solution:<br />
- Electrical measurement results<br />
- Thermal measurement results<br />
- Mechanical validation results<br />
- Tooling and manufacturing costs and advantages<br />
• Summary:<br />
- Identified cost drivers for BMS design and alternative design solutions<br />
- New possibilities through robust BMS algorithms<br />
- Innovative solutions have to be found to resolve existing challenges<br />
in the battery development area. The shown connection method as<br />
replacement for existing welding processes is one example<br />
"Regenerative Fuel Cells for <strong>Energy</strong> Storage Applications"<br />
Growing contribution of renewable energy sources will undoubtedly require<br />
sufficient numbers of energy storage devices to guarantee secure and cost<br />
effective operation of future low carbon electrical grids. Electricity can be<br />
stored in variety of ways as mechanical, magnetic, heat, electrochemical and<br />
others. Nonetheless the use of redox flow systems in a wide range between<br />
kilowatts and megawatts of power is particularly exciting because these<br />
systems can decouple power and energy, be location-independent, have a very<br />
long cycle life and minimal maintenance. Although various redox flow systems<br />
have been implemented for energy storage, and are in different states of<br />
development, the current state-of-art system seems to be an all-vanadium<br />
redox flow battery. While having numerous advantages, this specific system<br />
still suffers from a relatively low output power density and specific energy,<br />
compelling the use of large volumes of electrolyte for large-scale energy<br />
storage. Obviously, large volumes of electrolyte will be costly considering the<br />
high cost of vanadium oxide. Additionally, in order to meet high power<br />
demands, larger and numerous cell components are needed which will result in<br />
even greater cost. Moreover, one of the disadvantages that all redox flow<br />
batteries with metal redox couple anolyte face, is that hydrogen co-evolution<br />
Dr Vladimir Yufit is a researcher at Imperial College London<br />
leading a pioneering work on development of novel type<br />
regenerative fuel cells and advanced 3D visualisation and<br />
quantification methods for fuel cell and battery electrode<br />
materials. He obtained his PhD degree from Tel Aviv<br />
University while working on development of threedimensional<br />
thin film lithium-ion microbatteries. He is a coauthor<br />
and co-inventor of numerous scientific papers and<br />
patent applications relating to the field of rechargeable nonaqueous<br />
batteries, PEM and solid oxide fuel cells, redox flow<br />
batteries, supercapacitors and hybrid systems.
Prof. Dina Golodnitsky<br />
Tel-Aviv University<br />
www.tau.ac.il<br />
may occur during the charge cycle. For the systems implementing metal<br />
dissolution/re-deposition processes dendrite formation may also occur, leading<br />
to system performance degradation and even safety related issues. A solution<br />
to these issues can be found in the form of a regenerative fuel cell that utilise<br />
liquid and gaseous redox reactions, either hydrogen oxidation reaction on the<br />
anode side or the oxygen reduction reaction on the cathode side. Preliminary<br />
results gathered during electrochemical testing have demonstrated that<br />
regenerative systems using hydrogen or oxygen as are feasible and potentially<br />
attractive; however further research and optimisation are required to improve<br />
performance and cycle life.<br />
"Advanced Silicon-Based Anodes for High-<strong>Energy</strong>-<strong>De</strong>nsity Li-<br />
Ion Batteries"<br />
The goal of the project is the development of low-cost, high-capacity, longcycle-life<br />
and safer anode materials to replace the graphite anode of the<br />
common lithium-ion battery. We developed two synthetic routes for the<br />
preparation of silicon multiphase composite particles, studied the process of<br />
formation of the protective layer on the anode nanoparticles and tested small<br />
laboratory-prototype cells with advanced anodes.<br />
A method of attachment of silicon nanoparticles to carbon nanotubes<br />
(MWCNT) was developed with the purpose of creating a silicon anode<br />
supported by a strong, rigid and high-electrically-conducting matrix. The<br />
method is based on the silanization process. STEM analysis showed that silicon<br />
particles are dispersed uniformly on the surface of the MWCNT. ESEM images<br />
indicated the formation of silicon nanoparticles wrapped by carbon nanotubes.<br />
The method of preparation had a strong effect on the morphology of the<br />
powders. XPS spectra and depth profiles indicate the possible formation of a<br />
carbon layer on top of the silicon nanoparticles and Si-C bonding. The feasibility<br />
of using electrophoretic deposition for the preparation of composite Si:MCMB<br />
anodes coated by a ceramic-in-polymer protective layer has been proven.<br />
Li/Si-C-MWCNT cells with the anodes composed of 70-80% core-shell Si-C<br />
composite exhibited intercalation capacity of 1135mAh/gSi at the 123 th cycle.<br />
Porous silicon nanoparticles have been formed by metal-assisted chemical<br />
etching. The anodes are being tested.<br />
Diana Golodnitsky received her M.Sc. from the L. Ya. Karpov<br />
Physicochemical Scientific Research Institute, Moscow. She<br />
received the Ph.D. degree from the State Technological<br />
University, Kazan, Russia. Until 1991 Diana Golodnitsky was<br />
engaged in the field of the research and development of the<br />
innovative materials, electrodeposition and electroless<br />
technologies for Aircraft Techniques. Prof. Diana Golodnitsky<br />
has been involved in lithium-batteries field since 1992. Her<br />
work has covered several topics related to electrochemical<br />
energy storage, 3D-micro- and nano-battery architectures,<br />
including advanced cathode and anode materials, gel and<br />
solid polymer electrolytes. Her scientific interests focus, in<br />
addition, on electrochemistry of metals and alloys, materials<br />
characterization for advanced energy technologies using XRD,<br />
SEM, EDX, XPS, TOF SIMS, DSC, and TGA methods. She has<br />
co-authored 90 papers, three book chapters, and more than<br />
150 conference publications; she also holds 10 patents. Prof.<br />
Diana Golodnitsky has been a supervisor 10 PhD students.<br />
Since 1997 Diana Golodnitsky is a PI of 16 international and<br />
competitive grants. Diana Golodnitsky has<br />
international collaborations with leading scientists in US, UK,<br />
France, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Poland, and Netherlands.<br />
She is a reviewer of 7 professional journals and the member<br />
of Editorial Advisory Board of The Open Electrochemistry<br />
Journal.
Prof. HyukSang Kwon<br />
KAIST<br />
www.kaist.ac.kr<br />
Mr. Hugues Chanoine<br />
Clean Horizon<br />
(www.cleanhorizon.com)<br />
"High Performance SnO 2 -polypyrrole hybrid nanowires for<br />
Lithium-Ion battery anodes"<br />
SnO 2 -polypyrrole hybrid nanowires were successfully synthesized with a onestep<br />
process by a cathodic deposition from an aqueous solution containing<br />
pyrrole monomers and Sn salts. The facile and effective process involves a rapid<br />
electropolymerization of polypyrrole nanowires simultaneously with a relatively<br />
slow electrochemical deposition of SnO 2 , leading to the incorporation of SnO 2<br />
nanoparticles into the polypyrrole nanowire. Another notable feature of this<br />
approach is that the synthesized SnO 2 -polypyrrole nanowires are directly<br />
deposited on the surface of substrate as a film with a three-dimensional porous<br />
and interconnected network structure composed of numerous fine nanowires.<br />
Electrochemical properties of the SnO 2 -polypyrrole nanowires were examined<br />
to confirm their potential use as an anode material for Li-ion batteries. Over<br />
400 cycles overall, the SnO 2 -polypyrrole composite nanowires showed an<br />
excellent cyclic performance with charge capacity higher than 757.65 mAh g -1 ,<br />
due probably to the fact that the polypyrrole matrix effectively prevents the<br />
agglomeration of the SnO 2 nanoparticles and elastically buffers their volumetric<br />
change that occurs during cycling.<br />
"Frequency Regulation in Europe: business models today... and<br />
tomorrow with mileage?"<br />
Prof. HyukSang Kwon has been a professor in the fields of<br />
materials electrochemistry in <strong>De</strong>partment of Materials<br />
Science and Engineering at KAIST since he joined to a faculty<br />
member at KAIST in 1984. He received his B. S. degree and M.<br />
S. degree in 1974 and 1980, respectively, from Seoul National<br />
University. He received Ph. D in 1983 from <strong>De</strong>partment of<br />
Metallurgy and Materials Science at Case Western Reserve<br />
University, Cleveland Ohio. Before joining to KAIST in 1984,<br />
he had served as a lecturer/research associate in deparment<br />
of mechanical eng. at Texas A&M university for two years<br />
(1982~1984). He visited the Pennsylvania state university,<br />
and coworked with prof. Digby D. Macdonald on SCC for one<br />
year from 1995. He worked as a department head in<br />
Materials Science and Engineering at KAIST for two years<br />
during 2002/2003. He worked as a dean of public and<br />
international affairs at KAIST during the period of 2005 to<br />
2007. Professor Kwon served as a vice president in Corrosion<br />
Society of Korea for five years since 2003. He is<br />
author/coauthor of more than 120 papers published in<br />
international journals and 10 patents, and has been invited to<br />
give a plenary or invited talks at numerous international<br />
conferences related to the corrosion and energy storage<br />
materials. He has worked as thesis advisor for 61 graduate<br />
students including 37 MS and 25 Ph. D graduate students. He<br />
is the co-author of the book titled, “ Understanding of<br />
Stainless Steels”, published in 2007.<br />
Chanoine obtained his engineer’s degree majoring in<br />
optimization applied to energy issues. He is now working as<br />
an Analyst at Clean Horizon, where he is in charge of the<br />
technical and regulatory watch for energy storage, as well as<br />
economic modelling for storage assets. With Clean Horizon,<br />
Hugues serves large industrial corporations and utilities in the<br />
process of defining their energy storage strategy.
Mr. <strong>Shmuel</strong> <strong>De</strong>-<strong>Leon</strong><br />
<strong>Shmuel</strong> <strong>De</strong>-<strong>Leon</strong> <strong>Energy</strong><br />
www.sdle.co.il<br />
Mr. Lior Eshed<br />
Emefcy Ltd.<br />
www.emefcy.com<br />
" EV Fuel Cells & Metal Air Systems"<br />
Fuel Cells and Metal Air systems has a huge advantages as an energy storage<br />
devices for e-mobility. Their high energy density, fast charging and no impact to<br />
the grid make them more similar to fuels we use now with ICE. Current word<br />
wide status will be review as well as mid and long term forecast.<br />
"Microbial Fuel Cells for Wastewater Treatment -Electrogenic<br />
organisms in service of the environment"<br />
EMEFCY is an <strong>Israeli</strong> startup company dedicated to the development of novel<br />
technologies for energy efficient wastewater treatment. The main technology<br />
that Emefcy develops is the EBR, which is designed to treat industrial<br />
wastewater while producing energy.<br />
The EBR (Electrogenic Bio-Reactor) is a Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC), a<br />
combination of a biological reactor and an electro-chemical cell. It is based on a<br />
device which wastewater flows into, and treated water comes out of. In the<br />
device there are anodes and cathodes between which the wastewater flows. A<br />
biofilm (layers of bacteria) of electrogenic bacteria that naturally develops on<br />
the anodes oxidizes the organic material that pollutes the water into the<br />
following: carbon dioxide, protons – that diffuse through the water towards the<br />
cathode, and electrons – that travel through an electric circuit to the cathode.<br />
On the cathode, atmospheric oxygen diffuses through a coating to react with<br />
the protons and electrons, thus producing water. In conclusion, the organic<br />
matter is oxidized, as it would in other treatment methods, and no energy is<br />
consumed for the process. Moreover, an electric current is produced as a result<br />
of the process.<br />
The power in the cell is managed by a novel MPPT (maximum power point<br />
tracking) circuit, that maintains maximum power output and also converts the<br />
low voltage produced (0.3-0.4 V) to standard DC voltage (12/24 V).<br />
Both products relies on the development of an oxygen permeable membrane<br />
where in the EBR there is also an oxygen reduction catalyst and corrosion<br />
resistant current collectors.<br />
Commercializing this technologies is a multidisciplinary effort, requiring a wide<br />
range of knowledge from materials science, chemistry and engineering.<br />
<strong>Shmuel</strong> <strong>De</strong>-<strong>Leon</strong>, is the founder and CEO of <strong>Shmuel</strong> <strong>De</strong>-<strong>Leon</strong><br />
<strong>Energy</strong>.<br />
<strong>Shmuel</strong> is a leading international expert in the business of<br />
<strong>Power</strong> <strong>Sources</strong>.<br />
Prior to founding the company, <strong>Shmuel</strong> held for over 22 years<br />
various positions as a power sources, engineering and quality<br />
control team manager.<br />
<strong>Shmuel</strong> holds a BSc. in mechanical engineering from Tel-Aviv<br />
University and an MBA in quality control and reliability<br />
engineering from the Technion Institute in Haifa as well as an<br />
Electronic Technician's diploma.<br />
Mr. Lior Eshed is an Environmental engineer, specializes on<br />
environmental biotechnology and microbial fuel cells. He is<br />
the R&D manager of Emefcy since its establishment.
Ph.D. Dario <strong>De</strong>kel<br />
Cellera<br />
www.cellera-inc.com<br />
Ph.D. Alex Schechter<br />
Ariel University<br />
www.ariel.ac.il<br />
"Alkaline Membrane Fuel Cell Technology – A reality"<br />
Although Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFCs) have achieved a<br />
high performance and from the technological point of view, they are finally<br />
ready to enter the market, the cost of PEMFC technology is still a major barrier<br />
for commercialization.<br />
Recently, the Alkaline Membrane Fuel Cells (AMFCs) have received increasing<br />
attention since in principle, they allow for the use of non-precious metal<br />
catalysts, which dramatically reduces the cost per kW of power. In order to<br />
develop a first AMFC stack with enough performance for stationary application,<br />
anion conductive membranes, anion conductive ionomers and catalysts able to<br />
work in an alkaline medium are key materials. Studies on these materials are<br />
only now emerging.<br />
From the very limited materials developed for this technology, peak power<br />
density records of almost 200mW/cm2 were already reported. Non-published<br />
data suggests that the actual power densities that can be achieved with today’s<br />
state-of-the-art anion conductive polymers are even much higher. With the<br />
latest and most advanced developed materials, AMFC stacks providing 2kW<br />
power output were already developed at CellEra.<br />
During this presentation, the state of the art on AMFCs will be briefly reviewed,<br />
and current status of AMFC stack performance will be presented.<br />
“Advance Materials for Fuel Cells”<br />
Fuel cells (FC) are considered as the most efficient energy conversion devices<br />
for propulsion. Very significant progress has been made during the last decade<br />
in improving the leading technology based on polymer electrolyte fuel cells<br />
(PMFC). However, remaining challenges imped the commercialization of this<br />
technology. The main barriers include catalysts materials cost and activity,<br />
electrode materials stability issues and hydrogen fuel storage. We will present<br />
recent progress in our lab in study of new catalysts beyond platinum, advance<br />
electrode materials and high surface area support materials for catalysts. The<br />
application of these materials in new concept of fuel cells will be<br />
demonstrated. In addition, we will present our latest achievements in efficient<br />
hydrogen generation on demand. Implementation of this concept in a 30 W<br />
hybrid system prototype based on PEMFC fuel cell will be presented as a high<br />
Dr. Dario R. <strong>De</strong>kel<br />
VP R&D and Engineering / Co-Founder at CellEra<br />
Dr. <strong>De</strong>kel spent 10 years as a chief scientist and as a top<br />
manager at Rafael Ltd, Israel, where he led an R&D,<br />
engineering and production team of around 100 members at<br />
the world’s second largest Thermal Battery Plant. Dr. <strong>De</strong>kel<br />
left Rafael in 2007 to co-found CellEra Inc. where he leads<br />
today a selected group of 14 scientists and engineers,<br />
developing the novel Alkaline Membrane Fuel Cell<br />
technology. As a Vice President for R&D and Engineering at<br />
CellEra, he currently leads R&D collaboration programs with<br />
Penn State University, Technical University of Munich, Danish<br />
Technical University, Volkswagen, Vodafone, and other major<br />
academic and industrial teams from Japan, Germany, France,<br />
<strong>De</strong>nmark, China and the U.S.<br />
Dr. <strong>De</strong>kel received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Chemical<br />
Engineering from the Technion. He also holds an MBA degree<br />
from same institution.<br />
Dr. <strong>De</strong>kel is the 1998 winner of the Katzir Award from the<br />
<strong>Israeli</strong> Ministry of <strong>De</strong>fense. He currently holds $3M<br />
government research grants from the <strong>Israeli</strong> OCS, from the<br />
US DOE, and from the Eurostars and Eureka European<br />
programs. Dr. <strong>De</strong>kel holds 14 battery and fuel cell patents.<br />
Dr. Schechter is the chair of the chemistry department in Ariel<br />
University, the head of the fuel cell and electrochemistry<br />
laboratory in the institute and chair of the center for hybrid<br />
energy sources. Dr. Schechter has vast experience in energy<br />
storage technologies gained in many R&D projects in the<br />
academia and industry. He was actively involved fuel cell and<br />
battery research projects conducted in Israel and the USA.<br />
Dr. Schechter's extensive experience covers a broad range<br />
of areas including catalysts, polymer membranes and designoptimization<br />
of fuel cells and electrochemical devices.
Ph.D. Ricardo Osiroff<br />
Nanergy Fuel Cells, Ltd.<br />
www.nanergy.co.il<br />
energy density power source for portable applications.<br />
"Platinum-Free Direct-Liquid Fuel Cells"<br />
Nanergy Fuel Cells Ltd develops proprietary disruptive and differentiated fuel<br />
cell technology based on a unique patented combination of low cost catalysts<br />
and special water-based industrially-available fuel compositions. Nanergy’s<br />
value proposition includes<br />
Low capital cost: Low-cost copper-based catalysts and minimal balanceof-plant<br />
design. Nanergy estimates that its BOM will be about half vs.<br />
currently available technologies.<br />
<br />
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Low operational cost: Long, maintenance-free operational time<br />
Safe, low cost fuel: Unique high-energy cost effective solid fuels that are<br />
commercially mass-produced and safely packed, stored and transported.<br />
The development of the basic technology has been successfully completed over<br />
the last three years. Prototypes have been built and tested, demonstrating high<br />
efficiency and a useful life of more than 1,000 hours. The company is now<br />
focused on products for the auxiliary and backup market segments.<br />
Nanergy is led by a strong and experienced team. Its scientific leader - Prof.<br />
Fernando Patolsky, a Chemistry professor at the Tel Aviv University, is a wellknown<br />
researcher and one of the world leaders in applying nano technology to<br />
practical problems.<br />
The Nanergy management team also includes its CEO – Dr. Ricardo Osiroff,<br />
having extensive experience in leading high tech companies from inception to<br />
the market.<br />
Born and raised in Uruguay, Dr. Ricardo Osiroff and his family<br />
immigrated to Israel in 1970. In 1974 he joined the Academic<br />
Reserve of the IDF and graduated in Chemical Engineering<br />
from the Technion in 1979.<br />
• After completing his undergraduate studies Ricardo rejoined<br />
the IDF and took the position of research<br />
engineer in one of the elite technology units within the<br />
Army Intelligence.<br />
• In 1986 Ricardo came to the USA where he completed a<br />
M.Sc. in Engineering Science & Mechanics and a PhD in<br />
Materials Engineering, both at Virginia Tech.<br />
• In 1990 Ricardo returned to Israel and to the IDF; where<br />
he went on to serve in series of leading positions in the<br />
Materials and Mechanical fields until he retired from the<br />
army at the end of 2001. His last position was Division<br />
Manager.<br />
• During his time with the IDF, Ricardo received several<br />
notable Awards, including twice the Army Intelligence<br />
Creative Thinking Award and twice the Israel <strong>De</strong>fense<br />
Award – the most prestigious award in the national<br />
<strong>De</strong>fense and HLS fields.<br />
• Between 2001 and 2010 Ricardo held several top<br />
management positions in technology oriented<br />
companies such as the AVX Corporation (a USA<br />
corporate), Printar inkjet systems and lastly, CEO of<br />
Cellaris advanced ceramic materials.<br />
• In 2010 he joined Nanergy Alternative <strong>Energy</strong>, a private<br />
venture involved in several nano-technology based<br />
projects together with the Tel-Aviv University. He now<br />
leads Nanergy Fuel Cells, a company emerging from this<br />
collaborative effort.<br />
Ricardo is married to Orly, has 6 children ages 13 to 28 and<br />
lives in Ganei-Tikva, 10 km east of Tel-Aviv. Ricardo enjoys<br />
reading fiction, swimming and riding a bicycle in nice<br />
weather.
Prof. Yoed Tsur<br />
Technion Institute<br />
www.technion.ac.il<br />
"Advanced materials for SOFCs"<br />
SOFCs are promising devices for energy conversion, especially for stationary<br />
applications and for combined heat and power (CHP) generation. Hybrid power<br />
generation systems based on SOFCs can reach impressive efficiencies while<br />
reducing local pollutants practically to zero. SOFCs that are based on oxygen<br />
ion ceramic conductors can, in principle, utilize hydrocarbon fuels. The main<br />
challenge still remains their durability.<br />
Different types of SOFC will be surveyed. State of the art materials in relation to<br />
the main SOFC types will be reviewed. This will be done with two important<br />
aspects in mind: application as combined SOFC/SOEC and the boost in natural<br />
gas discoveries both in Israel and around the world.<br />
Yoed Tsur is an associate professor in the department of<br />
Chemical Engineering at the Technion, Israel Institute of<br />
Technology. He serves as a member in the Grand Technion<br />
<strong>Energy</strong> Program (GTEP), in which he is the coordinator of the<br />
fuel cells program, and as the head of the graduate program<br />
committee. Prof. Tsur's research interests include: synthesis<br />
and development of oxide materials for nanotechnology,<br />
point defect chemistry, electroceramics and electroceramic<br />
devices, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS)<br />
measurements and analysis. For the latter, Tsur's group has<br />
developed a unique approach that provides an analytical<br />
form of the time constant distribution in a device under test.<br />
Mr. Kai-Christian Moller<br />
Fraunhofer Institute<br />
www.ict.fraunhofer.de<br />
Abstract<br />
"A Roadmap for the Next Generation of Batteries – Materials,<br />
Chemistries, Performance and Cost"<br />
The lithium-ion technology is today’s most advanced battery technology. Since<br />
it was introduced in 1991 by Sony, no other battery system has grown so<br />
strongly and was commercialized in such a large scale. The by then dominating<br />
technology, the nickel metal hydride batteries, was replaced step by step by<br />
lithium-ion batteries starting with small applications such as mobile phones and<br />
is now conquering applications such as power tools and now hybrid electric<br />
vehicles and battery electric vehicles. Nevertheless, due to the challenging<br />
requirements of electric vehicles there is a strong need for battery systems with<br />
improved properties such as energy and power density, temperature range and<br />
safety.<br />
The presentation will give an overview on novel material concepts for<br />
electrochemical energy storage systems. A battery material roadmap will be<br />
presented that has been developed under guidance of Fraunhofer by experts<br />
from industry and academic research in the framework of a project within the<br />
“Innovation Alliance Lithium-Ion Battery (LIB 2015)", supported by the German<br />
Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The roadmap will classify the<br />
Bio<br />
Kai-Christian Möller received his PhD in electrochemistry<br />
at the University of Münster, Germany in 1998. After a<br />
research stay at the Graz University of Technology, Austria,<br />
he changed in 2006 to the Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate<br />
Research, Germany, where he established the “Center for<br />
Applied Electrochemistry” as team manager. Since 2012 he<br />
is head of the Project Group “Electrochemical <strong>Energy</strong><br />
Storage” of the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical<br />
Technology in Garching near Munich.
expected technological developments such as cell components, resulting cell<br />
types and quantify their expected properties such as energy and power<br />
densities, cycle life and costs for the horizon 2013 - 2030+. The chronological<br />
ranking of the availability and the expected properties of new cell chemistries<br />
with the materials momentarily under development is the basis for the road<br />
map for the development of effective batteries in future.<br />
Mr. Eyal Rosner<br />
Prime Minister's Office<br />
www.pmo.gov.il<br />
Last not least a comparison with official japanese, chinese and korean roadmaps<br />
will show the the agreements and differences of the mentioned countries with<br />
respect to their different expectations in the progress of battery technology.<br />
"The Alternative Fuels Initiative of the Gov. of Israel"<br />
Eyal Rosner<br />
Chairman and Director of Administration<br />
Alternative Fuels Initiative<br />
Prime Minister's Office<br />
Israel<br />
Eyal is the Chairman of Israel's National Program for the<br />
<strong>De</strong>velopment of Substitutes for Oil in Transportation ("The<br />
Alternative Fuels Initiative").<br />
The Program serves as a catalyst for reduction of global<br />
dependency on crude oil by establishing Israel as a center<br />
of knowledge and industrial best practices in the field of<br />
fuel alternatives. Eyal chairs the government’s interdepartmental<br />
steering committee that determines the
Mr. Troy Renken<br />
Z-<strong>Power</strong> LLC<br />
www.zpowerbattery.com<br />
“High <strong>Energy</strong> <strong>De</strong>nsity Silver-Zinc Button Cells”<br />
Silver-Zinc (AgZn) batteries have long been known for their high energy and<br />
power density capabilities. Z<strong>Power</strong> has applied advances in materials<br />
technology, manufacturing processes, and charging technology to overcome the<br />
traditional limitations of this battery chemistry. Z<strong>Power</strong>’s initial focus is in the<br />
hearing instrument market where rechargeable AgZn is an attractive alternative<br />
to primary Zinc-Air button cell batteries. The presentation will cover the unique<br />
characteristics of AgZn batteries and compare them to other primary and<br />
secondary button cell technologies.<br />
Program’s goals.<br />
Reporting to the Prime Minister's Office, Eyal is head of<br />
the Program's administration, where he is responsible for<br />
developing and executing the Program's strategy while<br />
coordinating nine government departments participating<br />
in the Program.<br />
Eyal brings to the Program twenty years of experience in<br />
different facets of the investment and business world.<br />
Previously Eyal was the CEO of the Borovitz Mozes Group<br />
(BMG), a $3 billion privately held company controlling El Al<br />
– Israel Air Line, Sonol gas stations, Tambour paints, GES<br />
environmental solutions and other companies.<br />
Eyal's 7-year tenure at BMG includes the acquisitions of EL<br />
AL, Israel's largest paint company Tambour, and energy<br />
holding company Granite. Eyal served as a board member<br />
and consultant to most of the Group's companies.<br />
Prior to BMG, Eyal was a Vice President at Bankers Trust<br />
for five years, where he was responsible for the trading<br />
and sales in Israel.<br />
Eyal was also an advisor to the Government of Israel and<br />
the <strong>Israeli</strong> Space Agency (2010), and has been serving on<br />
the board of the <strong>Israeli</strong> chapter of the Young Presidents<br />
Organization (YPO) from 2007 to 2012.<br />
Eyal served as captain in the <strong>Israeli</strong> Navy after graduating<br />
with highest honors at the Naval Academy. He earned a<br />
BSc degree in Computer Science and Economics from Tel<br />
Aviv University. He is a passionate cyclist and has done the<br />
Tour de France (2006).<br />
Troy Renken is the Vice President of Product Planning for<br />
Z<strong>Power</strong>, LLC located in Camarillo, California. Z<strong>Power</strong> is<br />
developing high performance, rechargeable silver-zinc<br />
batteries for the hearing aid industry. He has been<br />
working with the major hearing aid and cochlear implant<br />
manufacturers to bring the Z<strong>Power</strong> battery technology to<br />
the hearing healthcare market. In the past, Troy has been<br />
a featured speaker at the International Battery Seminar,<br />
Next Generation Batteries and The Battery Show. Prior to<br />
Z<strong>Power</strong>, his past experience included managing new<br />
electronics product launches for Emerson Climate<br />
Technologies. Troy holds a B.S. Electrical Engineering from
Ph.D. Herzel Yamin<br />
Tadiran Batteries<br />
www.tadiranbat.com<br />
Mr. Jeff Jubin<br />
Electric Fuel Battery Corp.<br />
(www.efbpower.com)<br />
"Tadiran High <strong>Power</strong> Rechargeable Lithium Ion Cell"<br />
A new family of AA size high power rechargeable lithium ion cells was<br />
developed. This family consists of 3 members having the AA size diameter and<br />
various cell lengths. Their internal design consists of high surface area carbon<br />
made anode and lithiated NCA cathode. The electrolyte is based on the<br />
carbonate solvent mixture. The cells were designed to deliver high power<br />
density in a continuous and a pulse mode of operation. They are capable to be<br />
charged and discharged at extreme temperature conditions from -40°C to 85°C<br />
.In addition, the cells show excellent long term stability during accelerated<br />
storage and while on long term operation. Thousands of full charge discharge<br />
cycles can be delivered before cell capacity drops to 80% of its initial value. The<br />
cells have relatively low self discharge rate of about 1% per month at room<br />
temperature. The electrical performance, the safety aspects and long term<br />
charge discharge data at various environmental conditions will be presented.<br />
"Soldier Worn Integrated <strong>Power</strong> Equipment System (SWIPES)"<br />
The SWIPES was developed with the Soldier in mind. Our goal was to reduce the<br />
Battery weight carried by our soldiers by up to 30% on multi day missions. The<br />
Swipes system is a modular power distribution system that was designed to be<br />
Battery agnostic. The System may be used with the Primary Zinc Air, BA 8180,<br />
ZA 8140 Short and the ZA 8140 Conformal batteries as the power source. The<br />
BA 5590, BB2590, LI 145 or Conformal Rechargeable Battery may also be used.<br />
The system may be Ruck or vest mounted utilizing a MOLLE mounting system.<br />
For Commonly used Handheld Communications, we chose to utilize pouch<br />
mounted chargers to maintain a high level of charge (80%+) within an OEM<br />
battery. We also provide direct power for various GPS units, Gunshot <strong>De</strong>tection<br />
Systems, USB <strong>Power</strong>ed devices, Small ruggedized Computers and Networked<br />
Handheld Radios. This approach reduces the need to carry spare batteries for<br />
each device on multi day missions. The System consists of a Battery cable, 4<br />
port power distribution Hub, radio chargers and direct power cables<br />
We will Show and <strong>De</strong>monstrate the SWIPES System with a Conformal<br />
Rechargeable Battery and a Universal Battery Charger as issued to the U.S.<br />
Army Units Currently <strong>De</strong>ployed in Afghanistan.<br />
Trine University and holds two patents.<br />
Dr. HERZEL YAMIN is a Vice President Research and<br />
<strong>De</strong>velopment of Tadiran Batteries Ltd. He is a world<br />
specialist in lithium thionyl chloride and lithium sulphuryl<br />
chloride battery systems. His research and development<br />
study is focused on high energy density primary lithium<br />
battery system. Dr. Yamin and his team study several<br />
innovative primary and secondary lithium battery<br />
technologies. Recently they developed ultra-high power<br />
primary battery using lithium intercalated compound .This<br />
battery is known as the most powerful battery in its size.
Dr. Mark Verbrugge<br />
General Motors<br />
www.gm.com<br />
Mr. Miguel Gaspar Silva<br />
SAP<br />
www.sap.com/israel<br />
“Electrified Vehicles for Personal Transportation: GM<br />
Applications and Characterization Tools to Assist in the<br />
Evaluation of Lithium Ion Batteries”<br />
We seek energy sources that are affordable, readily available, clean in terms of<br />
environmental concerns, and sustainable. Although automobiles emit far less<br />
unwanted emissions than in the past, personal transportation is challenged in<br />
that nonrenewable petroleum, which supplies about a third of the World’s<br />
energy needs, is used almost exclusively for transportation purposes. Great<br />
progress has been made in recent years relative to traction battery technology,<br />
as exemplified by the Chevy Volt extended range electric vehicle (EREV). In this<br />
talk, we will cover recent advancements in electrified vehicles. We shall also<br />
delve into the modeling of lithium ion batteries that is key to effective vehicle<br />
integration, including battery sizing, as well as determining the lifetime of the<br />
traction battery<br />
" The <strong>Energy</strong> Transition and Insights enabled by HANA in World<br />
of Smartgrids"<br />
Learn on how SAP is addressing the challenges of the future of energy with inmemory<br />
solutions that dramatically change the way the market players process<br />
and interact the information about energy consumption, energy costs and<br />
optimize the insight on the assets that deliver <strong>Energy</strong> across millions of<br />
consumers. Leveraging HANA in-memory technologies, SAP is delivering<br />
solutions for Customer <strong>Energy</strong> Management, Smart Metering Analytics and<br />
Patter Recognition or supporting Precise <strong>Energy</strong> Portfolio Management.<br />
Fundamental concepts associated with Smartgrids that are beeing enabled by<br />
the Future Real Time Data Platform for Utilities combining Business Process<br />
Execution, Business Intelligence and Real Time Data Analysis and Mobility<br />
working on top of big volumes of data from different data sources.<br />
Mark Verbrugge is the Director of GM’s Chemical and<br />
Materials Systems Laboratory, which maintains global<br />
research programs—enabled by the disciplines of<br />
chemistry, physics, and materials science—and targets the<br />
advanced development of structural subsystems, energy<br />
storage and conversion devices, and various technologies<br />
associated with fuels, lubricants, and emissions.<br />
Mark is a Board Member of the United States Automotive<br />
Materials Partnership LLC and the United States Advanced<br />
Battery Consortium LLC. Mark has received a number of<br />
GM internal awards as well as external awards including<br />
the Norman Hackerman Young Author Award and the<br />
<strong>Energy</strong> Technology Award from the Electrochemical<br />
Society, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the<br />
United States Council for Automotive Research. Mark is a<br />
Fellow of the Electrochemical Society and a member of the<br />
National Academy of Engineering.<br />
Miguel holds a degree in Engineering and an MBA. He has<br />
worked in the IT Industry since 1993. Since his start at SAP<br />
in 1997, Miguel participated in different implementation<br />
projects at key Utility Companies in Europe. Miguel is,<br />
since 2005, Industry Director at the Industry<br />
Business Solutions Team in SAP EMEA with responsibilities<br />
of Business <strong>De</strong>velopment across the entire region of<br />
Europe Middle East, Africa and India. Since 2011 acting as<br />
the SAP industry co-leader for Utilities in the EMEA region.<br />
Miguel is an active contributor to different working groups<br />
in Europe that are shaping the future of Utilities Industry,<br />
in particular to the ETP SmartGrids (www.smartgrids.eu)<br />
and to ESMIG – European Smart Metering Industry Group<br />
(www.esmig.eu) where he drives focused initiatives. Also<br />
invited speaker in many international conference, in<br />
Particular across Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Mr. <strong>Shmuel</strong> <strong>De</strong>-<strong>Leon</strong><br />
<strong>Shmuel</strong> <strong>De</strong>-<strong>Leon</strong> <strong>Energy</strong><br />
www.sdle.co.il<br />
Mr. Ran Aloni<br />
Dantech<br />
www.danenergy.com<br />
Capital Nature<br />
Ms. Shirley Sheffer<br />
Hoffmen<br />
Capital Nature<br />
www.capitalnature.com<br />
" Xev Battery Charging Systems" <strong>Shmuel</strong> <strong>De</strong>-<strong>Leon</strong>, is the founder and CEO of <strong>Shmuel</strong> <strong>De</strong>-<br />
<strong>Leon</strong> <strong>Energy</strong>.<br />
<strong>Shmuel</strong> is a leading international expert in the business of<br />
<strong>Power</strong> <strong>Sources</strong>.<br />
Prior to founding the company, <strong>Shmuel</strong> held for over 22<br />
years various positions as a power sources, engineering<br />
and quality control team manager.<br />
<strong>Shmuel</strong> holds a BSc. in mechanical engineering from Tel-<br />
Aviv University and an MBA in quality control and<br />
reliability engineering from the Technion Institute in Haifa<br />
" <strong>De</strong>signing power solution for LEV with emphasis on LiFePO4<br />
technology"<br />
An overview on the LEV industry in Israel and over the world, why we believe it<br />
will develop in the near future.<br />
LEV technical needs. Recommended LiFePO4 batteries and BMS for LEV<br />
applications. LiFePO4 batteries handling for LEV applications (charging and<br />
balancing). Alternatives for LiFePO4 to use in LEV applications<br />
" Investment Trends in the <strong>Energy</strong> Storage Space"<br />
Early stage technological investments in start-up companies, as well as<br />
academic research, are major drivers in making disruptive technological<br />
advances in markets like energy storage which strongly rely on scientific<br />
innovations. A glimpse into what has been happening in that space over the<br />
past few years can provide us with a better understanding of both status<br />
and what's ahead. This talk will provide a market view of the status, as well<br />
as the trends, in technology investments and success stories in the energy<br />
storage space, worldwide.<br />
as well as an Electronic Technician's diploma.<br />
Ran Aloni, is the manager of Dan Tech <strong>Energy</strong> GmbH in<br />
Berlin, Germany. Ran holds BSc. in electrical engineering.<br />
Shirley Sheffer joined Capital Nature, an investment firm<br />
focused on funding and accelerating early stage ventures<br />
in the Green <strong>Energy</strong> space, in 2011. In addition to<br />
incubating early stage start-up companies, Capital Nature<br />
also funds applied academic research in the area of<br />
renewable energy, and operates a test and validation<br />
center in the Eilot region. Previously, Shirley accumulated<br />
extensive experience in both investment and operational<br />
roles. For nine years, Shirley was with Poalim Ventures<br />
where she led investment opportunities from<br />
introduction, though deal making, to actively working with<br />
the portfolio companies to support them with strategy,<br />
financing issues, recruitment, and exiting. Shirley’s<br />
experience also includes senior international marketing<br />
roles that spanned over the range of product management<br />
and product marketing, business/cooperation<br />
development, and team management roles in companies<br />
such as ECI Telecom, Radway, Teledata, DEC, and others.<br />
Shirley holds a BSc in Computer Science from the<br />
University of Massachusetts and an MBA from Tel Aviv<br />
University.
Ph.D. Ofer Raz<br />
Rafael (Thermal Batteries)<br />
www.rafael.co.il<br />
Mr. David Danino<br />
Tamuz Electronics<br />
www.tamuz-ele.com<br />
Mr. Cornelius Geiger<br />
BatteryMan<br />
www.battery-man.de<br />
"Thermal Batteries for the system and electrical engineer<br />
perspective"<br />
"Implementing Li-FePO4 in a BBU, UPS and Mini Solar Systems<br />
for Extreme Outdoor Applications"<br />
For years the use of Lead-Acid batteries in outdoor applications and backup<br />
systems was found to be inefficient in converting energy, to have a very short<br />
operating life and with many other mechanical design limitations.<br />
Furthermore, there exist huge regulatory concerns with toxic substances control<br />
and hazardous waste requirements for proper managing of lead-acid batteries.<br />
Thus, the advanced Li-FePO4 (Lithium-FerroPhosphate) batteries technology,<br />
which is the future technology to replace SLA batteries, seems to be a very<br />
promising technology to implement in BBU (Battery Backup Unit), UPS and Mini<br />
Solar Systems for extreme outdoor applications.<br />
The Li-FePO4 offers many benefits such as the highest safety battery<br />
technology, superior cycle life, wide operating temperature range, low selfdischarge<br />
rate, absolutely environment friendly and much lower weight and<br />
volume than the old Lead-Acid technology.<br />
These benefits place the new Li-FePO4 technology as the leading battery<br />
technology in any new applications, in order to get the lowest systems' Cost Of<br />
Ownership for the users and operators.<br />
" First BMS with powerline communication | Technology +<br />
Applications"<br />
Saving data wiring enables modular composition and scalable Plug And Play<br />
BMS concept.<br />
The underlying invention of a battery management system is the first one to use<br />
communication over the given DC power line infrastructure without additional<br />
data wires. With local monitor units (LMU) mounted on each cell this saves all<br />
cabling, which again creates a plug and play system based on an “intelligent<br />
cell”. A microcontroller on this LMU measures the cell voltage between the<br />
terminals; via NTC it receives also the local cell temperature. The basic cell data<br />
is transmitted by a transistor triggering e.g. a 24bit code (including serial<br />
number for localizing and optional security codecs or production code). A<br />
priority concept allows important messages to inform in real-time(!) about<br />
Mr. David Danino, Technological entrepreneur and<br />
founder/CEO of Tamuz Electronics Ltd.<br />
David has worked in the worldwide battery industry for<br />
over 27 years and has a vast knowledge relating to<br />
batteries and portable energy systems.<br />
David is the founder and CEO of Tamuz Electronics Ltd.<br />
The company founded 15 years ago as a company which<br />
specializes in development, design and manufacture of<br />
custom made power modules, battery packs and chargers.<br />
Furthermore, David is an entrepreneur which is involved in<br />
new technological breakthrough developments and start<br />
up companies.<br />
David holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.)<br />
and has had practical engineering studies.<br />
Having studied Industrial Engineering and Management at<br />
the University of Applied Sciences in Karlsruhe, he also<br />
gathered 1 year working experience at Bosch in Mexico<br />
and Colombia. Finishing studies as market researcher at<br />
BASF in 2009 he then joined the German company PEUS-<br />
Testing GmbH, an innovative company for emission<br />
testing, formerly known as PEUS-Systems until the merger<br />
with AVL from Austria. Since 2011 he is responsible for<br />
marketing, communication and project acquisition at<br />
BatteryMan Technology GmbH, a split-off from PEUS-<br />
Testing and developer of the first BMS with DC power line<br />
communication.
critical status changes. Synchronous measurement of all cells delivers cell status<br />
for all cells at the very same moment allowing more precise forecasts. The<br />
battery control unit with central current measurement by a hall sensor<br />
distinguishes the data signal from the power signal by patented algorithms and<br />
filters all signals digitally to ignore noise from inverters. For life extension and<br />
efficiency improvement, all cell electronics have a shunt resistor for individual<br />
balancing during charging and discharging mode.<br />
Mr. Doron Vadai<br />
Clal Motors Ltd.<br />
www.byd.com<br />
These “intelligent cells” already come with integrated BMS enabling a modular<br />
composition, easy up-scaling, highest flexibility for all variations of battery packs<br />
without cabling, leading to reduced unit and system cost, shorter development<br />
cycles, faster time to market and adequate and individual battery dimensioning.<br />
" Electric Bus project in Tel-Aviv" Doron Vadai is the CEO Clal Motors the importer of BYD, a<br />
world leader in electric cars and buses. Doron is active in<br />
the EV arena since 2008, involved in creating the <strong>Israeli</strong><br />
standard for charging systems. Currently Doron is<br />
promoting the e-bus pilot project with DAN in Tel Aviv<br />
with the aim of electrifying public transportation. Doron is<br />
also the CEO of Clal <strong>Energy</strong> and the Chairman of Clal Sun a<br />
leader in the PV industry that won the Ashalim PV tender.<br />
Doron has served as<br />
2007-2008 Managing Director of MCA – importer of Fiat<br />
and Alfa Romeo<br />
2004- 2007 President of Grand Automotive importer of<br />
Ford and Jaguar to Croatia , Serbia, Montenegro and<br />
Albania.<br />
2002-2004 President and CEO of Tadiran-Ampa<br />
1998-2002 Managing Director of the Colmobil group.<br />
1994-98 Managing Director of Colmobil’s Hyundai<br />
operation.<br />
1991-94 Managing Director of Muller, the Scania trucks<br />
and freightliner trucks importer.
Mr. Brian Dargan<br />
Valence<br />
www.valence.com<br />
"Valence's modular approach to commercial electric vehicle<br />
fleets"<br />
For the past 4 years he has been Market <strong>De</strong>velopment<br />
Manager for EMEA for Valence Technology. Primarily<br />
this has involved working with key commercial<br />
automotive, industrial and marine partners through a<br />
range of diverse applications that require safe, reliable<br />
energy solutions.<br />
Mr. Gabriel Priav<br />
Colmobil<br />
www.colmobil.com<br />
Ph.D. Arieh Meitav<br />
ETV <strong>Energy</strong><br />
www.etvenergy.com<br />
" New Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV "drive earth technology"<br />
Drive train, power source, drive modes , safety and<br />
convenience"<br />
Prior to this time at Valence<br />
He graduated in Manufacturing Engineering in 1992<br />
from Leeds Met University. He then spent 7 years as<br />
Materials Manager in Kelman Ltd, (now part of GE<br />
<strong>Energy</strong>). Kelman Ltd are an industry leading OEM<br />
developing and supplying instrumentation to the<br />
power distribution industry.<br />
He then spent a further 10 years working in design<br />
led electronic component sales in several electronic<br />
distributors such as Arrow Electronics and Anglia<br />
Electronics. During this period he was dealing with<br />
engineering teams in key OEMs and design houses.<br />
This demand creation activity was primarily focussed<br />
on new product development and introduction.<br />
" Novel materials for next generation Li-ion Batteries" Dr. Meitav holds a PhD in electrochemistry, with<br />
graduate education in chemistry. He has thirty five years<br />
of experience, taking the lead, in engineering and<br />
industrial interdisciplinary R&D projects. He is one of<br />
worldwide pioneers to start with Lithium batteries in midseventies.<br />
His industrial experience includes R&D management in<br />
Tadiran Battery Division; he was one of the core team that<br />
launched Electric Fuel (Zn/Air for EV); his broad-ranging<br />
familiarity with cross-category technologies have been put<br />
to use for many years in his role as assessor of start-up<br />
projects.<br />
He is the inventor of a proton conductive supercapacitor<br />
(EDLC) that was acquired by AVX-USA
Mr. Ilan Ron<br />
Advice Electronics<br />
www.advice.co.il<br />
"Life span beyond 10 years - from the drawing board to real<br />
life"<br />
Renewable <strong>Energy</strong> applications of Solar / Wind systems are often characterized<br />
as Stand -Alone <strong>Energy</strong> source (s) which are Unreliable / Unpredictable to some<br />
extent. Main causes for these are the facts that Solar does not work at night and<br />
Wind tends to have fluctuations. All are weather dependant Such systems rely<br />
on batteries as <strong>Energy</strong> storage and for system stabilization in cases of<br />
wind/solar fluctuations. Additionally, some extra storage is required for no or<br />
low energy production periods.<br />
Storing surplus <strong>Energy</strong> for “Autonomy” days is common practice, catering for<br />
especially low energy input days.<br />
Renewable <strong>Energy</strong> applications constitute some major requirements from<br />
batteries, such as Long term service life, and Field application durability. On top<br />
of that, the Classic “full Charge-Discharge cycle” is not applicable in most cases,<br />
since the energy input may shift drastically as well as the consumption.<br />
And what batteries experience is mostly a large number of shallow cycles but at<br />
different states of charge<br />
The lecture addresses how to verify battery compliance and how to size systems<br />
for these requirements<br />
Service life verification is obviously important, especially for life cycle design<br />
and finance of such systems.<br />
The most acceptable method nowadays is to perform Simulation testing. These<br />
test simulate the overall conditions that a battery would endure during its life<br />
cycle, but in an accelerated manner, and in harsher conditions<br />
Sizing batteries for real life involves estimating the correct Battery capacity,<br />
which is lesser than the standard catalog figures, in order to maintain the<br />
longest lifecycle possible. DoD should be carefully selected to also cope with<br />
(www.avx.com) and was in charge for its development and<br />
industrialization (a commercial product since 2001).<br />
He was the CTO and cofounder of Sirius Implantable<br />
Systems, a miniature pacemaker with leadless electrode<br />
powered by a micro-battery recharged by a microgenerator<br />
that harnesses the mechanical movement of the<br />
heart generating electric power.<br />
Since 2008 he is the founder and CTO of ETV <strong>Energy</strong><br />
engaged to develop a new generation of Li-ion batteries<br />
for the automotive electric vehicles.<br />
He is the author of 13 patents and 5 provisional<br />
applications<br />
Solar <strong>Energy</strong> manager at Advice Electronics Ltd. In charge<br />
of technology, business development and sales of grid-tied<br />
and off-grid solar systems, products etc.<br />
Electronics Engineer with over 20 years of vast experience,<br />
mainly in R&D and development groups management.<br />
Inventor of 4 US patents in the fields of Telecom and<br />
Medical devices<br />
At 2008 made to move from The Telecom industry to solar<br />
and renewable energy and gained expertise in this domain<br />
since then.<br />
Former Co-founder and CEO of Eneright Technologies,<br />
which was incorporated into Advice Electronics Solar<br />
division.<br />
Head lecturer at Matrix Greentech college, in charge of<br />
the Solar <strong>Energy</strong> domain studies.
Mr. Eli Alon<br />
Cellergy Ltd.<br />
www.cellergycap.com<br />
Mr. Gil Nezer<br />
Interdan<br />
www.interdan.com<br />
the shallow multiple cycling in real life conditions.<br />
Practical battery selection is also discussed, with respect to the required<br />
working voltage (the greater – the better) and string organization.<br />
"Supercapacitors take market share from Tantalums"<br />
Cellergy develops and manufactures supercapacitors (SCs) for pulse<br />
applications. In recent years there has been a growing demand for very compact<br />
battery operated portable devices that need more power for operation and<br />
data transmission. In many electronic devices, which use primary batteries,<br />
driving high currents is limited due to the limited power density of batteries.<br />
Often, when a battery should supply high power at short time the voltage drop<br />
may be too large, causing performance failure, reduced operational life, or even<br />
premature battery failures. Adding supercapacitors of low internal resistance<br />
(ESR) type in parallel with the source battery can help supply power during<br />
these pulses, especially at low temperatures.<br />
The innovative printing technology applied by Cellergy allows the production of<br />
highly uniform EDLC’s in varied dimensions and shapes. Cellergy produces the<br />
smallest footprint (12x12.5 mm) pulse supercapacitor on today's market,<br />
enabling to incorporate the supercapacitors also in space-limited designs.<br />
The market for wireless applications is growing at a phenomenal rate, using<br />
different communication protocols such as GSM/GPRS, Bluetooth, ISM, Zegbee<br />
or WiFi transmission.<br />
Many battery operated appliances need to have high capacitance capacitors,<br />
with low ESR and low leakage current to manage the pulse requirements. For<br />
some of the applications, such as SSD (Solid State Drive) and smart meters<br />
(AMR), either supercapacitors or high CV Tantalums may be used. Few case<br />
studies of using SCs vs. Tantalums for same application will be compared and<br />
analyzed.<br />
"Digital Switching and Smart energy management in Mobile<br />
Applications"<br />
Eli Alon, CTO of Cellergy since 2009, is responsible for<br />
Cellergy's research, products and process development.<br />
He has over 28 years of experience in R&D and project<br />
management. Prior to joining Cellergy, he was section<br />
head of process R&D for 8 years at Tower-Jazz<br />
semiconductor Ltd., a pure-play independent foundry. He<br />
was, for more than 15 years, project manager and<br />
development engineer at Eureka Technologies, a design<br />
and development company - developing products and<br />
technologies for the industry; irrigation, house hold<br />
appliances, printing industry, medical devices and more.<br />
His academic portfolio includes a B.Sc. in Chemical<br />
Engineering, and M.Sc. in Materials Engineering at the<br />
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
Mr. Marcel Shaton<br />
ISERD<br />
www.iserd.org.il<br />
Mr. Daniel Jammer<br />
Nation-E<br />
www.nation-e.com<br />
" The next FP: HORIZON 2020 - <strong>Energy</strong> & Transport – 7 Years of<br />
Opportunities"<br />
2014 will mark the beginning of the next EU R&D Framework Program called<br />
"Horizon 2020" (2014-2020). For Israel Horizon 2020 offers a variety of R&D<br />
collaborations and opportunities in all fields. This presentation will focus on<br />
opportunities in energy and transport. The EU, forecasting its situation in both<br />
fields in the year 2050, have realized that if it wishes to overcome the great<br />
challenges faced by current patterns of consumption and use and meet is<br />
societal objectives it must make a significant investment in R&D and boost<br />
innovation.<br />
In the ENERGY field the EU aims to change and move to reliable, publicly<br />
accepted, sustainable and competitive energy system while reducing fossil fuel<br />
dependency in the face of increasingly scarce resources, increasing energy<br />
needs and climate changes.<br />
In the TRANSPORT filed the EU aims to achieve a European transport system<br />
that is resource-efficient, environmentally-friendly, safe and seamless for the<br />
benefit of its citizens, the economy and the society.<br />
Research and innovation, driven by policy objectives and focused key<br />
challenges shall contribute substantially to achieving societal long-term targets.<br />
Research and innovation activities shall include a wide range of initiatives that<br />
cover the full innovation chain. The challenge for Israel's R&D communities is to<br />
seize the opportunities Horizon 2020 offers in all fields.<br />
ISERD - The Israel-Europe R&D Directorate – is operated through the Office of<br />
the Chief Scientist of the <strong>Israeli</strong> Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor. ISERD<br />
promotes the participation of <strong>Israeli</strong> entities in R&D ventures within the<br />
European Research Area. ISERD operates in various channels such as: EU FP for<br />
Industrial and academic research; Eureka for industrial cooperation; Bi-<br />
National programs; EEN; and programs co-funded by Israel and the EU.<br />
Since 1998 Marcel Shaton is the General Manager of<br />
ISERD.<br />
During 1993-1998 he was the Minister for Economic<br />
Affairs at the Embassy of Israel, and at the Mission of Israel<br />
to the European communities (EC) in Brussels, Belgium.<br />
From 1985 to 1993 Marcel Shaton had various positions at<br />
the Foreign Trade Administration, Ministry of Industry and<br />
Trade, Jerusalem – up to <strong>De</strong>puty Director of the Foreign<br />
Trade administration.<br />
Between 1980 and 1985 He was the Economic Counselor<br />
at the Permanent Mission of Israel to the UN Organization<br />
in Geneva, and Israel’s Representative in GATT.<br />
Previously he worked as a coordinator for International<br />
Economic Affairs at the Ministry of Finance, and as a<br />
Commodities Trade Analyst at the Governmental<br />
Administration, Ministry of Industry and Trade.<br />
Mr. Shaton holds an MA degree (Cum Laude) in Political<br />
Science and a BA degree in Political Science & Economics<br />
from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.<br />
Contact details:<br />
Address: Industry House, 29 HaMered st. Tel-Aviv, Israel<br />
Tel: +972-3-5118122<br />
Web site: www.iserd.org.il<br />
" <strong>Energy</strong> Security on the Grid" Mr. Daniel Jammer is a highly successful entrepreneur,<br />
industrialist and philanthropist. Born in Germany, Mr.<br />
Jammer has a rich track record in leading international<br />
firms and investment ventures.<br />
He has vast experience in high level positions in the<br />
sectors of storage and energy management, aerospace,<br />
rare metals, and real estate as well as 15 years<br />
in executive positions at Tirus, a company that is part of<br />
the Titan-Industrie conglomerate.
Mr. Itai Ben-Dor<br />
Mobix<br />
www.mobix.com<br />
Mr. Aviv Tzidon<br />
Phinergy<br />
www.phinergy.com<br />
Ph.D. Niles Fleischer<br />
Steadymed<br />
www.steadymed.com<br />
"New Horizons in Smart Metering"<br />
"Balancing <strong>Power</strong>, Recharge and <strong>Energy</strong> with Metal-air"<br />
"Volume Expanding Batteries for Actuating Drug <strong>De</strong>livery<br />
Pumps"<br />
This talk presents an interesting demonstration of how physical changes<br />
arranged to occur in batteries during discharge can be exploited for<br />
performing useful mechanical work. Conventional batteries are used to<br />
convert chemical energy into electrical energy. We report here on<br />
batteries where this conversion is instead optimized for supplying<br />
mechanical energy derived from large increases that occur in the<br />
volume of certain electrodes as the cell is discharged. Such physical<br />
expansion at both the anode and the cathode is channeled into<br />
Itai has over 30 years of experience in the IT and<br />
Telecommunication industries in versatile executive<br />
management positions. He served as CEO of Tescom Israel<br />
and as CEO of Emblaze Systems. In addition, Itai has<br />
managed multi-disciplinary high-tech organizations, and<br />
supervised the successful marketing and sales of leading<br />
software products, services and solutions. As VP of Sales &<br />
Marketing at New Dimension Software and BMC, Itai was<br />
instrumental in bringing to market innovative and revenue<br />
generating solutions.<br />
Aviv Tzidon, Founder and CEO, Phinergy<br />
Aviv Tzidon is an accomplished entrepreneur who has<br />
founded over 10 high-tech companies, three of which have<br />
been listed on NASDAQ and one on the Frankfurt stock<br />
exchange.<br />
A creative, out-of-the-box thinker, he holds over 15<br />
patents, many of which have led to breakthrough<br />
innovations in various industries (such as positioning<br />
systems, network protocols, navigation accuracy, and<br />
virtual studios).<br />
Aviv is passionate about alternative energies and believes<br />
that thanks to metal-air technology, aluminum will<br />
become the next major sustainable energy source.<br />
Niles Fleischer, Ph.D. – Presently General Manager of<br />
SteadyMed Ltd., a private drug delivery therapeutics<br />
company that is commercializing a patch pump<br />
technology. Niles has 30 years of high-tech business<br />
experience in the battery, nanotechnology, and medical<br />
device industries. Before SteadyMed he helped launch<br />
and was the CEO of NanoMaterials Ltd. where he led the<br />
development of several products to international sales.<br />
Previously he co-founded and was the President/CTO of<br />
ECR Ltd., a start-up based on his inventions for ultra-thin<br />
batteries and super-capacitors which are now being sold
Mr. James Post<br />
Battery Condition Test<br />
International Hong-Kong<br />
(www.batteryconditiontest.<br />
com)<br />
increasing cell height in our proprietary expandable housing coin cell<br />
(the ECell®). This axial expansion can add about two thirds or more to<br />
the original height making ECells attractive as simple self-powered<br />
mechanical actuators for various devices. As ECells can be made with a<br />
range of initial heights, typically 6 mm and higher, multi-millimeter<br />
expansions are achieved with generation of forces of more than 1<br />
Kg/cm2 per electrode cross-sectional area. Control of both the rate at<br />
which the height increases and the total expansion is accomplished by<br />
normal regulation of discharge.<br />
In one example application, successful human clinical trials were<br />
conducted with skin-patch drug infusion pumps that we developed<br />
containing ECell actuators (PatchPump®). The PatchPump, about the<br />
size of a large watch, is adhered to the skin at various body locations<br />
(usually the abdomen). Under electronic control, expansion of the ECell<br />
compresses a semi-flexible drug reservoir in the pump pushing fluid into<br />
an attached tubing that delivers the medication for sub-cutaneous<br />
injection via a soft cannula. The pump can operate for several days.<br />
Dosing levels can be controlled from fast deliveries of several hours<br />
down to several tens of microliters per hour with high accuracy. The<br />
PatchPump technology is designed to deliver drug volumes of 1 to<br />
about 10 cc which are in the range between that delivered by syringes<br />
and that of infusion drip bags.<br />
A number of issued and pending SteadyMed patents worldwide cover<br />
this electrochemical actuator technology and its applications including<br />
drug patch pumps.<br />
"Battery Safety and Performance improvement by a better<br />
BMS"<br />
Last <strong>De</strong>cember, James Post, an electronic design veteran and speaker in this<br />
conference, was leading a discussion at the Battery Safety <strong>Conference</strong> (USA)<br />
on the predictability of thermal runaways (that lead to lithium batteries<br />
burning out), after which he invited qualified organizations to join in the<br />
project called "Better BMS". A reputable lab of a major university confirmed<br />
that it is indeed feasible to electronically recognize the patterns that<br />
precede thermal runaways, heavy mechanical impacts excepted. This<br />
proves the viability of the Better BMS targets.<br />
In addition to improving safety, the Better BMS will also assist battery pack<br />
worldwide. He has worked as a consultant to many battery<br />
and medical device companies. He started his career in the<br />
battery industry managing R&D operations at Rayovac in<br />
the US and Tadiran in Israel. Niles is the inventor of almost<br />
50 patents and has over 40 publications in various<br />
technology fields. He earned his Ph.D. in materials science<br />
and M.Sc. in electrochemistry both from The Weizmann<br />
Institute of Science, Israel, and his B.A. degree from The<br />
University of Michigan in chemistry and physiology.<br />
Married with three daughters, Niles enjoys cross-country<br />
running, gardening, and collecting antiquarian books.<br />
James Post, a technologist and high tech electronics<br />
strategist since 1975, came to the battery testing industry<br />
mid-2011 and started by visiting major e-bike<br />
manufacturers to analyze their test needs, while he<br />
extensively evaluated the e-bike market and potential<br />
improvement opportunities. From Spring 2012 he became<br />
a frequent speaker at battery/EV conferences. He is the<br />
driving force behind the “Better BMS” work group and<br />
Executive Product Manager at Battery Condition Test<br />
International Ltd. In Hong Kong<br />
(www.batteryconditiontest.com), closely associated with a<br />
Dutch high tech electronics R & D company<br />
(www.engineering-spirit.nl).
Mr. Eyal Solomon<br />
Ministry of Transport<br />
www.mot.gov.il<br />
Ph.D. Marnix Ten<br />
Kortenaar<br />
Dr. Ten BV<br />
www.drten.nl<br />
manufacturers with the opportunity to accurately determine weak cells<br />
(those outside the tolerance or bad connections) during final QC testing.<br />
When performed before sealing the battery pack, this will allow the<br />
manufacturer to fix the issues and repeat the test.<br />
This presentation will reveal the process of both safety monitoring during<br />
operation in the field as well as how the better BMS can be integrated into<br />
QC test procedures.<br />
“Ministry of Transport Electric Buses policy"<br />
"Smart Salt Water Batteries"<br />
Dr Ten is a small company in the Netherlands that develops and supplies smart<br />
and new custom-sized batteries, fuel cells and water systems.<br />
It has done research for many years in this field and recently different new<br />
batteries were discovered containing different salts that are currently under<br />
real testing with some first launching test customers.<br />
The batteries can be used for loadleveling or standalone energy supply and<br />
might as such replace current conventional alternatives like lead acid or<br />
advanced flow technologies.<br />
They reach many thousand cycles and consist of cheap and clean electrode<br />
materials and salts.<br />
One prototype is currently developed that integrates adsorption heating and<br />
cooling technology with the new battery to arrive at custom-sized units that<br />
may heaten, cool and store energy at the same time.<br />
Increased collaboration with Israel occurs, as it is a nice country that has<br />
complementary technological experience and a good location for business<br />
development towards India, East Africa, Middle East.<br />
In this lecture, a general overview of work is given.<br />
Marnix ten Kortenaar<br />
Born 19-08-1970 Voorburg, Netherlands<br />
Married, 3 kids.<br />
Living in Wezep, Netherlands<br />
Education and Work<br />
MSc Chemistry 1989-1994 RU Leiden. MSc in Electrodes<br />
for Zinc Air batteries<br />
PhD Chemical Technology 1995-1999 TU <strong>De</strong>lft. PhD in<br />
catalytic research for Fuel Cells.<br />
1999-2002 Working at RWE/Essent. Projectont<br />
development in renewable energy and PR<br />
2002-2007 Working at FrieslandCampina, Applied product<br />
en proces R&D in powders and lipids.<br />
2007-2008 Working at DSM resins, product development<br />
resins.<br />
2008-today CEO Dr Ten BV. Applied product/project<br />
development in physical chemical products in market<br />
water/food/energy. Current subjects of interest smart<br />
batteries, fuel cells, cooling/refrigeration systems, heating<br />
systems, recycling and green lipids.<br />
Two times part time lecturer/business developer for TU<br />
<strong>De</strong>lft (1,5 day pw week in period 2004-2006 and 2008-<br />
2010.<br />
Further<br />
Previous professional speed skater, 10 th at Olympic<br />
games 1998, 5000 meter. About 10 scientific papers and 3
patents. Often asked speaker in sport clubs, companies,<br />
institutes, churches, Writer of columns and book.