Opportunities from the wider UK battery community
Exhibiting at our conference
We asked the wider UK’s battery communities external to the Faraday Institution to exhibit at our conference, inviting them to tell the FI community about new initiatives, facilities, technology developments, career, training or internship opportunities, events or collaboration opportunities. Check out what they shared.
We also asked our industry fellows, industry sprint projects, entrepreneurial fellows and projects that recently began to develop batteries suitable for use in developing countries and emerging economies to highlight their projects and the impact that they’re making.
Check out the content here and make contact with these potential collaborators over slack as we aim to extend the breadth and value of collaboration in the battery sector across the UK.
Industry and other external contributions
Lynn Tomkins
Skills4UK
Skills4 will be holding a “Boost your career” session at 10.30 on the 25th November as a precursor to the Women’s Empower programme that will be open to applications from women working on Faraday Institution projects.
Renee Watson
The Curiosity Box
See inside the Fully Charged STEM Day in a Box, where Head of Explosions at The Curiosity Box unboxes this brilliant resource for inspiring future battery researchers!
www.stemday.co.uk/faraday
Keywords: Careers, Education, Children,
Outreach, CSR
Javier Palacio Torralba
dSPACE
An understanding of how Hardware in the Loop Simulation helps to develop better and safer batteries.
Keywords: HIL, BMS, Real-time,
Model, Testing
David Curry
Altair Engineering Inc.
Learn how EDEM simulation software can be used to gain unique insight into electrode manufacturing and help your research into battery technology.
Keywords: Electrode, Simulation, DEM,
Manufacturing, Calendaring
Ben Pellegrini
Intellegens
Our machine learning platform, Alchemite, extracts maximum knowledge from all available experimental data for battery materials, management systems and manufacturing processes.
Keywords: Machine learning,
Material/chemical design, Industrial formulations, Manufacturing processes,
Design of experiments
Charanjeet Singh
CPI
Find out about the technology and support available to optimise your battery materials, resulting in reduced costs, increased life-span, improved power, range and safety.
Keywords: Scale-up,
Business support, Industrial formulations, Battery formulation,
Battery optimisation, Case studies
Marianne Privett
AA Thornton
Marianne explains why Intellectual Property
(IP) is of relevance to you.
Keywords: Intellectual property, IP,
Patents, Strategy
Robin Morris
Henry Royce Institute
We provide state-of-the-art facilities and equipment for analysis of energy materials.
Keywords: Test, Characterise, Fabricate, Equipment, Funding
Nick King
Midlands Innovation
The Energy Research Accelerator is an Innovate UK funded programme with includes the universities of Aston, Birmingham, Cranfield, Keele, Leicester, Loughborough, Nottingham and Warwick, along with the British Geological Survey. ERA provided £20m of funding for the energy innovation centre at WMG,
University of Warwick.
Anna Wise
Innovate UK
Find out how to apply for Round 4 funding for collaborative R&D projects run by Innovate UK as part of the Faraday Battery Challenge.
Faraday Institution content
Entrepreneurial fellows
Thomas Heenan
University College London
Our patent-protected technology has demonstrated charging time reductions of up to 67% on commercial Li-ion cells.
Keywords: Fast-Charging, Cold-Start, Hardware Innovations, Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs),
Cell Manufacturing
Ola Hekselman
Solveteq Ltd
Gain an insight into an innovative method for recycling automotive batteries and its route for commercialisation.
Keywords: Sustainability, Recycling,
Lead-acid batteries, Hydrometallurgy, Decarbonisation
Tom Cleaver
Cognition Energy Ltd
How an entrepreneur fellowship can help kickstart the process of starting a company and work towards your first product, leading to a high performance battery with a long life.
Keywords: Fellowship, Battery,
Performance, Thermal, Life
Ian Campbell
Breathe Battery Technologies
Lightweight, dedicated BMS application layer software modules for healthy battery charging.
Keywords: BMS, SOH, Charging, Modelling,
Electric cars
Jack Nicholas
Qdot Technology Ltd
The future of battery thermal management to enable extremely fast charging.
Keywords: BTMS , Charging, Thermal,
Cooling, Rapid
Industry fellows
Abbas Fotouhi
Cranfield University
New opportunities of integrating AI/
machine learning techniques in
battery management systems.
Keywords: Battery, Thermal management, Artificial intelligence, Machine Learning, Temperature prediction
Alexander Roberts
Coventry University
Introducing the collaboration between Coventry University and CB2Tech, an overview of cell prototyping capabilities is given, highlighting the development of starting materials through to 18650 and 21700 cylindrical cells.
Keywords: High power, Prototype, Scale-up, Fast charge, Niobium
Ganesh Madabattula
Imperial College London
The video explains the goals of the industry fellowship for collaboration between Ilika and Imperial College London.
Keywords: Solid-state batteries, Industry fellowship, Ilika technologies, Modelling, Design and optimisation
Terry Dyer
University of Strathclyde
The benefits to UK industry of developing of a low-noise, low-cost fluxgate magnetometer.
Keywords: Fluxgate, Magnetometer, Electric vehicles, Battery Management, Magnetocardiography
Christopher Abel
CDO2
With the electric vehicle revolution on the horizon, look at how quantum magnetometers can be used to help improve the design, manufacture, and monitoring of battery packs.
Keywords: EVs, Monitoring, Quantum, Magnetometers, Safety
Industry sprints
Alastair Hales
Imperial College London
An investigation of lithium-ion cell design optimisation to improve thermal management, using the Cell Cooling Coefficient and ECN models.
Keywords: Thermal Management,
Cell Cooling Coefficient, Tab Cooling,
Lithium-ion cell design
Mark Buckwell
University College London
An insight into how we can simulate and study failure in order to make safer batteries.
Keywords: Li-ionbatteries, degradation, failure,
X-ray imaging, abuse testing
Case studies
Thomas Heenan
University College London
The comprehensive microstructural and electrochemical analysis that is provided within our Advanced Datasheets can aid in purchasing decisions by providing an informed comparison of commercial Li-ion cells.
Keywords: Advanced Datasheets,
Open-source data, Microstructure, Electrochemistry, Li-ion 18650
Matthew Kok
University College London
Fast X-ray CT can help predict cell failure modes, aiding in quality control.
Keywords: X-ray CT,
Jelly-roll, Degradation, Knee point,
Quality control
Batteries for emerging economies
Richard Wills
University of Southampton
An overview of the RELCoBatt project, which aims to develop a soluble lead flow battery alongside techno-economic analysis of its integration into the lead acid recycling process.
Keywords: Flow, Battery,
Techno-economic, modelling
Edward Brightman
University of Strathclyde
Low cost graphite polysulphide single liquid flow battery for developing countries.