Course Overview:
This Lithium-Ion Battery Safety course provides a comprehensive understanding of the current practices and challenges associated with lithium-ion battery safety. Participants will explore various battery chemistries, their applications, and the associated safety risks, including design and manufacturing defects that could lead to fires. The course covers essential topics such as safety testing protocols, quality assurance, and best practices for battery design, storage, and transportation. Attendees will gain insights into the battery supply chain, counterfeit risks, and emerging regulations like the right to repair. Additionally, the course addresses sustainability concerns related to battery reuse, repurposing, and recycling, equipping participants with the knowledge to promote safer battery use and handling across industries.
Course Outline
- Basics of Lithium-Ion Battery Technology
- Global Suppliers of Battery Raw Materials
- Lithium-ion Cell Manufacturing Process
- The Lithium-ion Battery Market and Key Cell Manufacturers
- Lithium-ion Battery Pack Design Considerations
- Design and Process Failure Modes and Mechanisms
- Thermal Runaway and Mitigation Strategies
- Battery Qualification
- Battery Supply Chain – Quality, Risks and Audit
- Quality Assurance in Li-Ion Battery Production
- Storage of Lithium-ion Batteries
- Transportation of Lithium-Ion Batteries
- Battery Safety Standards
- Battery Rewrapping and Counterfeits
- Legal and Societal Issues
- The European Union’s Batteries Regulation 2023
- Right to Repair Legislation and the Implications on Battery Safety
- Battery Re-use and Repurposing: Balancing Sustainability with Risk
- Risks Associated with Recycling and Disposal
- Future Batteries and Their Safety Concerns
After taking this course, participants should have the information to be able to:
- Know the industry, having knowledge of its history and progression, current landscape, and future outlook, including manufacturing capacities, geographic distribution, and demand trends.
- Analyze batteries with confidence, having learned about the types of batteries, their chemistries, their failure modes and mechanisms, and the trade-off between energy density and safety risks. By understanding the advantages and disadvantages of different cathode materials, anode materials, electrolytes, and separators, readers can make informed decisions when selecting batteries for specific applications.
- Future-proof your business, having learned about the battery supply chain in the consumer, industrial, electric vehicle, and renewable energy sectors, and the pivotal roles played by key stakeholders. From cell manufacturers to gauge makers, pack houses, and product companies, understand how each entity contributes to safety assurance and risk mitigation throughout the stages from acquiring cells to delivering final products, identifying potential risks and vulnerabilities along the way. Emphasizes how audits are crucial in battery manufacturing for quality control and risk management, enhancing safety and user confidence.
- Ensure product safety and compliance, having gained insights into the various safety mechanisms (current interrupt device, positive temperature coefficient devices, vents, separator, and flame retardants) that are and are not implemented in batteries, and the value and lack of value of regulations and safety standards governing batteries and their integration into products and systems. Gain insights into best practices for designing products that prioritize consumer safety while maintaining efficiency and performance.
- Know the safety testing protocols, Explore the evolution of safety test standards and their impact on design practices within the battery industry. Understand the intricacies of cell, pack, and product safety testing protocols, equipping yourself with the knowledge to assess and ensure compliance with rigorous safety standards. At the same time, understand the limitations of these tests and the fact that they don’t guarantee that fires won’t occur.
- Mitigate safety risks, having learned about the methods to identify and address potential battery material and production risks, and the storage and transportation of batteries, battery packs, and products incorporating batteries. The reader will also learn about data transparency challenges between manufacturers and end-users/system designers, pointing out weaknesses in how manufacturers present information in datasheets about battery performance and storage for safe and reliable use.
- Promote safe sustainability, having learned about the risks of repairing, re-using, re-purposing, and recycling batteries.
Contact
Michael Pecht
301-405-5323 | education@calce.umd.edu
Bldg. 89, Room 1103
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
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