Descrizione del progetto
Aumentare l’efficienza energetica delle batterie agli ioni di litio attraverso la modularità strutturale
Le batterie agli ioni di litio (Li), che hanno rivoluzionato i dispositivi elettronici portatili, alimentano la maggior parte dei veicoli elettrici oggi in circolazione sulle strade. Sebbene siano in fase di sviluppo potenziali tecnologie alternative, il litio continuerà a risultare fondamentale per questi mercati almeno per altri dieci anni. Il progetto iModBatt, finanziato dall’UE, si prefigge di massimizzare la densità energetica delle batterie agli ioni di litio per l’industria automobilistica, di ridurre i costi e di incrementare l’indipendenza e la competitività dell’Europa, obiettivi che perseguirà ottimizzando il design strutturale e i componenti di un innovativo concetto di pacco batterie modulare. L’équipe di iModBatt prevede di ridurre il peso del pacco batterie mantenendone l’integrità strutturale e migliorando i processi automatizzati di produzione e riciclaggio.
Obiettivo
iModBatt stands for Industrial Modular Battery Pack Concept Addressing High Energy Density, Environmental Friendliness, Flexibility and Cost Efficiency for Automotive Applications. The aim of iModBatt is to design and manufacture, with minimum environmental impact, a high energy density modular battery pack flexible enough to be used in automotive and small stationary applications. This battery pack will be suitable for industrial automated assembly with an easy disassembly design, to make possible the shift from primary applications to secondary ones, and to facilitate the pack recyclability or parts replacement if necessary.
The project concept is built around an already existing technologically breakthrough, modular battery pack design primarily developed for specialty applications, that has proven excellent performance and cost efficiency in such a manner that higher ambition, wider spread electric vehicle applications seem the natural next developmental step for such a concept.
The project focuses into maximization of the energy density of a lithium ion pack through the optimization of the structural design and components of a battery pack for a given cell form factor. In this sense the strategy is to increase the energy density by reducing the weight of the battery pack while keeping structural integrity and easy assembly and manufacturing. Chemistry and BMS work is beyond the scope of the project, which focuses in the structural design and manufacturing.
The Consortium includes industrial partners of every step of the battery pack value chain, including automotive OEMs, battery parts manufacturers as well as leading European research centres with ample experience in the field of batteries.
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- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringmanufacturing engineering
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwaste managementwaste treatment processesrecycling
- natural scienceschemical scienceselectrochemistryelectric batteries
- social sciencessocial geographytransportelectric vehicles
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringthermodynamic engineering
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