CAREER: Environmental Sustainability of Next Generation Lithium Ion Batteries for Electric Vehicles

1351602元。这项职业资助的研究目标是调查下一代锂离子电池(NG LIB)的环境可持续性，并与通用汽车、江森自控和PE International合作，为电池驱动电动汽车(BEV)的NG LIB的可持续设计和制造创建可持续分析工具。更具体地说，这项职业资助的研究目标包括：(1)天然气Lib制造排放的建模和调查；(2)通过原位和异地技术对天然气Lib制造过程中纳米颗粒排放的实验研究；(3)NG Lib制造的热力学能量建模和验证；(4)通过回收和可持续性分析工具开发对NG Lib技术进行闭环可持续性管理。长期的教育目标是建立一个关于BEV环境可持续性的全面教育计划。为了实现这一目标，这项职业资助的教育目标是为NG Libs的环境可持续性提供尖端的基于研究的知识和教育资源。这项建议的教育计划包括：(1)通过课程开发和参与研究来教育和培训学生；(2)工业专业人员？通过工业研讨会、短期课程和会议研讨会进行教育和宣传；(3)通过在线视频、公共广播节目和网站下载材料进行一般公众教育和提高认识。该项目的主要创新包括开发基于过程的数学模型和工具，通过实验进行验证，以了解和改善NG Lib技术的环境可持续性。该项目旨在推动天然气锂技术在大规模工业生产中的开发和应用，减少对环境的影响和经济成本。Ng Lib正在使用纳米技术进行开发，这些技术在实际生产中存在严重的可持续性问题。此外，NG Lib生产过程中产生的纳米废物和纳米颗粒排放可能对职业和公共健康构成严重的暴露风险。此外，天然气锂的生产非常耗能，这不仅对环境造成了影响，而且导致天然气锂产品的成本很高。该项目旨在减少天然气锂的制造废物和排放(包括纳米颗粒的排放)，提高能源效率，增强天然气锂技术的可持续发展，为未来在电动汽车上的大规模应用奠定基础。天然气液化石油气技术的环境可持续性性能非常重要，在大规模应用于未来的电动汽车之前必须进行充分的研究和改进。研究成果将通过学术期刊、会议记录、互联网媒体等广泛传播，并将增进人们对NG Lib技术潜在环境影响的了解，并帮助为电动汽车开发可持续发展的NG Lib生产基础设施。在实践中，研究成果将被工业合作伙伴(通用汽车和JC)应用。教育影响包括让高中学生和教师参与，开发一门关于可持续设计和制造的新课程，将研究成果整合到两个现有的UWM课程中(每年招收120多名学生)，在UWM继续教育学院为当地和全国的工业专业人员教授一个短期课程，通过UWM的在线MS计划提供课程材料，在领先的工业公司(通用汽车和JC)举办研讨会和首届会议工作坊(ISSST)，在NSDL和NCLT等国家高影响力数据库和网站上分享材料，以及为公众提供视频和公共广播节目。该项目将培养一名博士后，一名博士生和两名本科生(在NSF REU和UWM SURF计划的支持下)。代表人数不足的学生将从威斯康星大学学生专业协会招收。这些教育材料将与PI在美国和中国的合作者共享。

1351602 (Yuan). The research objectives of this CAREER grant are to investigate the environmental sustainability of next generation lithium ion batteries (NG LIBs) and to create a sustainability analysis tool for sustainable design and manufacturing of NG LIBs for battery-powered electric vehicles (BEVs), collaborating with General Motors, Johnson Controls, and PE International. More specifically, the research objectives of this career grant include: (1) Modeling and investigations of NG LIB manufacturing emissions; (2) Experimental investigations of nano-particle emissions from NG LIB manufacturing through in situ and ex situ techniques; (3) Thermodynamic energy modeling and validation of NG LIB manufacturing; (4) Closed loop sustainability management of NG LIB technologies through recycling and sustainability analysis tool development. The long-term educational goal is to establish a comprehensive educational program on environmental sustainability of BEVs. To fulfill this goal, the educational objectives of this CAREER grant are to provide cutting-edge research-based knowledge and educational resources for environmental sustainability of NG LIBs. The educational plans of this proposal include: (1) Students' education and training through curriculum development and research participation; (2) Industrial professionals? education and outreach through industrial seminars, short course and conference seminars;(3) General public education and awareness through online videos, public radio programs and website downloadable materials. Major innovations of the project include the development of process-based mathematical models and tools validated through experimentation for understanding and improving the environmental sustainability of NG LIB technology. The project aims to lead to the development and application of NG LIB technology in large-scale industrial production with reduced environmental impacts and economic costs. NG LIB is under development using nanotechnologies which have significant sustainability issues in real production. Moreover, nano-wastes and nano-particle emissions from NG LIB productions may pose severe risks of exposure for both occupational and public health. In addition, NG LIB production is very energy-intensive, which contributes not only to the environmental impacts, but also to the high costs of NG LIB products. This project aims to reduce NG LIB manufacturing wastes and emissions (including nano-particle emissions), improve the energy efficiency, and enhance the sustainable development of NG LIB technology for future large-scale applications on EVs. Environmental sustainability performance of NG LIB technologies is significant and must be fully investigated and improved before large-scale application in future EVs. The research results will be broadly disseminated through academic journals, conference proceedings, internet media, etc., and will improve people's understanding about the potential environmental impacts of NG LIB technology and assist in developing a sustainable infrastructure for NG LIB production for EVs. In practice, the research results will be applied by industrial partners (GM and JC). The educational impact includes involving high school students and teachers, developing a new course on sustainable design and manufacturing, integrating the research results into two current UWM courses (enrolling more than 120 students/year), teaching a short course in the UWM School of Continuing Education for local and national industrial professionals, offering the course materials through UWM's online MS program, holding seminars at leading industrial companies (GM and JC) and premiere conference workshops (ISSST), sharing the materials in such national high-impact databases and websites as NSDL and NCLT, and offering video and public radio programs for the general public. This project will train one postdoc, one Ph.D. student and two undergraduate students (with the support of NSF REU and UWM SURF programs). Underrepresented students will be recruited from UWM student professional societies. The educational materials will be shared with the PI's collaborators in both the U.S. and China.