Tour of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) - Filled; No
Longer Accepting Registrations

Presented by: Ahmad Pesaran, NREL
Time: 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

Attendees will be given a tour of NREL's Battery Thermal Management Lab at the Thermal Test Facility, the Battery Material Research Lab at the Solar Energy Research Facility and Science and Technology Facility, as well as a tour of the Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle and Solar Charging Station.

The tour has been filled to capacity.

To sign up for a po, please email a copy of your conference registration confirmation to Shannon Given via e-mail.

Calorimetry and Thermal Analysis in Batteries, Cells and Materials Development

Presented by: Andre Levchenko, Setaram
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Registration: Free for full conference attendee (registration required); $99 for non-full conference attendees.

This workshop is part of Setaram’s ‘Lunch & Learn’ series designed to help understand the applications of calorimetry and thermal analysis in the assessment of batteries, cells and materials development.  This half-day workshop is chaired by the head of Setaram USA Application & Testing Laboratory and contains data from customers worldwide in the field of battery development.  This includes everything from screening materials, to self discharge and of course abuse and overcharge testing. In addition, there will be an open discussion session that will allow attendees to ask questions and advice from the panel of experts with regards your specific work and challenges.

The agenda is a series of presentations that introduce the techniques, principles of operation and key measurement capabilities of different techniques as well as a review of data and publications in the recent months that describe experimental procedures being applied today throughout the battery world.

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Lithium-Ion Battery Design Tutorial

Presented by: Robert Spotnitz, Battery Design LLC
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Registration: Before September 18th: $395; after September 18th: $495

This full day course surveys all aspects of lithium-ion battery design ranging from materials and processes, to cells to packs. A thorough overview of the issues involved in life estimation, thermal behavior, and abuse tolerance is provided. How to design lithium-ion cells is discussed in detail with an emphasis on comparing different chemistries. The Battery Design Studio software is used to illustrate design techniques for cells and packs.

This course is aimed at managers, engineers, and scientiests interested in getting a good overview of lithium-ion technology as well as learning how to design lithium-ion cells. No prior knowledge of lithium-ion
batteries is assumed.

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Li-Ion Battery Power Management: Chemistry Characteristics, Charging, Fuel Gauge, and Cell Balance

Presented by: Doug Williams, Yevgen Barsukov and Jinrong Qian, Texas Instruments
Time: 1:00 p .m. to 4 :00 p.m.
Registration: Before September 18th: $49; after September 18th, $99.

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Battery power management continues to plays a critical role in battery powered devices. “How can I charge the battery safely and faster, make the system run longer, and fully use the battery capacity?” has plagued designers and users. This seminar addresses the issues surrounding battery power management for safely charging the battery, smartly monitoring the battery for improving protection, and accurately estimating battery remaining capacity.

The workshop provides the battery electrical behavior, charging and discharging characteristics, cycle life and safety protections including over-charging, over temperature, over-current and short circuit for Li-Ion and LiFePO4 batteries.

Attendees will learn about the new industry charging standards, review the battery charging system architecture, interaction between system and charger. Dynamic Path Management (DPM) technology is going to be presented to maximize use of the AC adapter power while charging the battery and supplying the system simultaneously.

The presenters will discuss how to accurately monitor the battery remaining capacity. Too early shutdown the system will not fully use the energy from the battery for low accuracy fuel gauge. High accuracy fuel gauge is the same important as the power conversion efficiency. We are going to review the most commonly used monitoring approaches: coulomb counting, voltage measurement based and 99 percent accuracy impedance track based fuel gauges. Both single cell and multi-cell fuel gauge examples will be presented.

Additionally, attendees will learn cell-balance techniques for multi-cell series batteries in power tools and medical applications. The cell voltage based and power-pump based cell balance techniques will be described. It is shown that it takes less than one cycle to achieve the cell balance with power-pump (buck-boost) cell balance.

This seminar is structured to provide in-depth coverage of the topics in battery powered applications, and is intended for the audience from entry level to intermediate experience level.

If you are interested in hosting a workshop, please contact Shannon Given at
720-528-3770 ext 104 or email.