Baua Electric

JULY 22, 2024

Some types of lithium mining require a lot of water and energy and have led to local pollution, such as in South America’s alpine lakes. The extent to which renewables should dominate Australia’s energy grids is a major issue in science and politics. But as with any technology, sodium-ion batteries present challenges.

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Baua Electric

JULY 22, 2024

Some types of lithium mining require a lot of water and energy and have led to local pollution, such as in South America’s alpine lakes. The extent to which renewables should dominate Australia’s energy grids is a major issue in science and politics. But as with any technology, sodium-ion batteries present challenges.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2021

Waste tires have been used mainly for recovering energy sources; only small proportions of the carbon black contained in these tires are recycled, since mineral ash accounts for around 20% of its content. Around three kilograms of carbon black—also known as industrial soot—are found in a standard car tire.

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APRIL 20, 2023

At Auto Shanghai, Chinese battery giant CATL launched what it calls a “condensed battery”—a type of semi-solid state cell with an energy density of up to 500 Wh/kg. CATL says the cell can achieve high energy density and high level of safety at the same time, opening up a new electrification scenario for passenger aircraft.

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MARCH 20, 2023

In addition, similar to other amine-based sorbents, this hybrid sorbent is regenerable with waste heat or thermal energy at The desorbed CO 2 is simultaneously sequestered as innocuous baking soda (sodium bicarbonate, NaHCO 3 ). Concept of CO 2 sorption by polyamine-Cu(II) complex.

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JUNE 30, 2023

Swedish sodium-ion battery developer Altris presented a pure Prussian White cathode material with a capacity of 160 mAh/g, making it the highest capacity declared to date. Prussian White is a framework material consisting of sodium, iron, carbon and nitrogen (Na x Fe[Fe(CN) 6 ] with x>1.9). Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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JUNE 4, 2023

Russia-based Nornickel, the world’s largest producer of palladium and high-grade nickel and a major producer of platinum and copper, presented its eleventh review of the nickel and platinum group metals (PGM) markets based on the fundamental analysis of world economic and industry data.

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AUGUST 16, 2019

The California Energy Commission awarded $3.75 million to 25 early-stage, innovative projects as part of a portfolio of research investments intended to help achieve the state’s climate and clean energy goals. Nrgtek : Energy storage with sodium iron flow batteries. Noon Energy : Rechargeable carbon-oxygen flow battery.

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Baua Electric

MAY 13, 2024

Sodium-ion batteries have been of considerable interest due to sodium’s abundance compared to lithium, which is over 500 times less common. This innovative development could revolutionize the way we use and think about energy storage in the future.

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MAY 9, 2023

The dominant conventional process for refining battery-grade lithium from hard rocks such as spodumene and lepidolite relies on sulfuric acid and produces sodium sulfate as a byproduct—a waste stream that requires costly and proper disposal. Tesla will use inert reagents such as soda ash and lime.

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JULY 6, 2022

LG Energy Solution (LGES) signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Compass Minerals ( earlier post ), a provider of essential minerals. As outlined in the MOU, purchase pricing would be based on market price and sales volume thresholds would be dependent upon product qualifications.

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MAY 18, 2010

GE Energy Storage Technologies, a unit of GE Transportation, introduced its Durathon sodium-metal halide battery ( earlier post ) for critical backup power. Sodium-metal halide cell basic chemistry. GE is also using the technology to develop advanced transportation energy storage systems.

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MAY 15, 2015

British battery R&D company Faradion has demonstrated a proof-of-concept electric bike powered by sodium-ion batteries at the headquarters of Williams Advanced Engineering, which collaborated in the development of the bike. Sodium-ion intercalation batteries—i.e., Oxford University was also a partner. Earlier post.)

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MAY 4, 2021

The conversion is expected to reduce the facility’s greenhouse gas emissions by 50% and help California meet its lower-carbon objectives. A technical collaboration with Faradion, a leader in sodium-ion battery technology, to develop lower-cost and higher-performing anode materials for sodium-ion batteries.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

GE’s Energy Storage business announced $63 million in new Durathon sodium-halide battery orders since the business launched in July. The technology is unique because it can function in a variety of extreme conditions and store as much energy as lead-acid batteries twice its size while lasting up to 10 times as long.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Volume produced will be marketed by each shareholder based on their respective shareholding in the project. Our decision to carry out our lithium project in Argentina is in line with the dynamic of strong market growth. Our decision to carry out our lithium project in Argentina is in line with the dynamic of strong market growth.

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MARCH 26, 2023

Exceptionally high selectivity for lithium over other ions present in the brine (including sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium, and boron), meeting specifications for subsequent direct production of battery-grade lithium hydroxide monohydrate, without the need to first produce lithium carbonate. g/L) and Ca (7.2 m3 per day.

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APRIL 10, 2013

Flowchart of Molten Sodium Upgrading process. An innovative oil-upgrading technology that can increase the economics of unconventional petroleum resources has been developed under a US Department of Energy-funded project. Source: Field Upgrading. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Researchers within the RS2E network on electrochemical energy storage (Réseau sur le stockage électrochimique de l’énergie) in France have developed the first sodium-ion battery in an 18650 format. The main advantage of the prototype is that it relies on sodium, an element far more abundant and less costly than lithium.

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MARCH 5, 2023

The low lying LUMO energy level enabled the preferential reduction of the binder prior to the degradation of the electrolyte or salt to form a thinner and highly conducting borate rich SEI. A robust boron rich SEI and a binder with inherent Li + ions improved the kinetics with low activation energy for lithiation/desolvation (22.56

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA?E) E) will award $39 million in funding to 16 projects across 12 states to develop market-ready technologies that will increase domestic supplies of critical elements required for the clean energy transition. Earlier post.)The

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JANUARY 31, 2022

This prevents fire-causing short circuits, but also in theory it enables solid-state batteries to have higher energy density. One of the larger issues for solid-state batteries making the transition from laboratory to the market is the challenges inherent in their production. —Zane Grady, lead author. Sintered triphasic cathode.

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JANUARY 21, 2020

Mercom Capital Group, llc, a global clean energy research and communications firm, released its report on funding and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity for the Battery Storage, Smart Grid, and Energy Efficiency sectors for 2019. Total corporate funding, including debt and public market financing, increased to $2.8

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JANUARY 29, 2023

Solvay is investing at its Livorno, Italy site to launch the company’s first unit of circular highly dispersible silica (HDS) made with bio-based sodium silicate derived from rice husk ash (RHA). Solvay currently offers a wide range of HDS for sustainable mobility and energy-efficient tires. Continental is a key partner in this.

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JULY 29, 2021

This latest round of Faraday Battery Challenge funding will be shared across 17 projects being undertaken by businesses and research institutions across the UK.

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AUGUST 9, 2022

V in lithium-, sodium-, or potassium-based cells. The phases are insoluble in battery electrolytes, have high gravimetric density, and can be cycled with low carbon content and high mass loading. An open-access paper on their work is published in the RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science. doi: 10.1039/D2EE00566B.

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APRIL 12, 2023

The results of their study, published in Joule , could help advance efforts to produce low-carbon fuels. Nina Fujikawa/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) There are many reactive species in seawater that can interfere with the water-to-hydrogen reaction, and the sodium chloride that makes seawater salty is one of the main culprits.

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MAY 28, 2014

The study, which provides a joint industry analysis of how different types of batteries are used in different automotive applications, concludes that lead-based batteries will by necessity remain the most wide-spread energy storage system in automotive applications for the foreseeable future.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Cummins has been awarded $5 million from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office for the automation of solid oxide electrolyzer cell (SOEC) and stack assembly. Rapid innovation like this will drive the acceleration of the energy transition in the United States and globally.

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APRIL 26, 2022

Saint-Gobain Glass then mixes the recyclate with, among other things, quartz sand, sodium carbonate, and chalk—the basic components of glass. Producing new base glass requires the purest, most homogeneous glass recyclate possible. At the moment, the proportion of recylate to other materials varies between 30 and 50%.

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AUGUST 18, 2013

Skyonic’s electrolytic carbon capture technology, SkyMine, selectively captures CO 2 , acid gases and heavy metals from flue gas. The captured pollutants are mineralized into solid products, including sodium bicarbonate, which are stored, transported and sold as safe, stable solids.

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APRIL 1, 2011

John Goodenough, are proposing a strategy for high-capacity next-generation alkali (lithium or sodium)-ion batteries using water-soluble redox couples as the cathode. The present sodium-sulfur battery operates above 300 °C. In theory, the specific energy of a lithium-oxygen (air) battery is 5200 W h kg -1. —Lu et al.

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JULY 28, 2023

KAUST researchers have demonstrated the use of laser pulses to modify the structure of a promising alternative electrode material known as MXene, boosting its energy capacity and other key properties. These nanodots, roughly 10 nanometers wide, were connected to the MXene’s layers by carbon materials. This offers several benefits.

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MAY 3, 2022

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $45 million in funding ( DE-FOA-0002760 ) to support the domestic development of advanced batteries for electric vehicles. The EVs4ALL program structure acknowledges the existence of different market needs in terms of EV range. Oxide-based anodes. Three-dimensional anode architectures.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2020

A paper on the work is published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels. With the depletion of light oil resources and rising energy demands, the successful recovery of heavy oil is becoming increasingly important. Engineers may also make the water more alkaline by adding sodium hydroxide or sodium carbonate to help the oil flow better.

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JULY 27, 2022

Although the current 10-fold price spike of lithium is giving the electric vehicle market a sharp short-term shock, a study by a team from Tsinghua University indicates that it will not hinder transportation electrification in the long run. Contrary to anticipation, the global LIB supply chain is currently haunted by market fluctuations.

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MAY 5, 2016

Lithium ion battery powered electric vehicles are a reality, and with this comes much public and academic speculation concerning the importance of lithium availability and market price. They then performed a sensitivity analysis to determine the influence of large fluctuations in the lithium carbonate price. —Ciez and Whitacre.

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