Battery Solution for Trams and Trolleybuses
Overhead line voltage sags on a hot afternoon and the timetable slips by two minutes before anyone explains why. I have spent eleven years specifying lithi…
Semi-Solid State Battery Electrode Slurry Mixing and
When engineers talk about semi-solid state batteries, most of the attention goes to energy density numbers and the promise of safer chemistry. In my work a…
Lithium Battery for Floor Scrubbers and Cleaning Robots
Walk into any distribution center at 6 a.m. and the floor scrubbers are already running. What most fleet managers do not realize is that the battery, not t…
Sodium-Ion Battery Water-Based Electrode Processing
Water-based electrode processing keeps coming up because it removes the most expensive and most regulated fluid on the coating line. I have run NMP and aqu…
Lithium Battery for Film Lighting: Flicker-Free Power Budget
On a documentary shoot in Oman we lost forty minutes to a fault that was neither the fixture nor the camera. Six 300 W LED panels were pulling from a 26 V…
Lithium Battery Enclosure IP Rating Selection
“IP rating” is the line item added to a lithium battery enquiry last, and it is the one that comes back to bite. In fourteen years of pack programmes I hav…
Battery Solution for Theme Parks and Attractions
Most discussions about power at a theme park start with the rides and end with the generator. The projects I get called into start elsewhere: the utility f…
Battery Solution for Mobile Decontamination Units
When a chemical spill, an industrial accident, or a contagious-disease event forces a response team to set up washing lines in a parking lot, the equipment…
Semi-Solid State Battery Silicon Anode Blending
When a customer asks us to raise the energy density of a semi-solid state battery without changing the cell footprint, the anode is where the leverage sits…
Lithium Battery Fire Code and Insurance Requirements
Last spring I sat in a conference room with a plant manager, a fire marshal, and a property underwriter, all looking at the same 1.2 MWh lithium battery s…