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

1351602(元)。这项CAREER资助的研究目标是研究下一代锂离子电池（NG lib）的环境可持续性，并与通用汽车（General Motors）、江森自控（Johnson Controls）和PE International合作，为电池驱动的电动汽车（bev）的NG lib的可持续设计和制造创建一个可持续性分析工具。更具体地说，这项职业资助的研究目标包括：(1)对天然气LIB制造排放进行建模和调查；(2)通过原位和非原位技术对纳米LIB制造过程中纳米颗粒排放的实验研究；(3)天然气LIB制造的热力学能量建模与验证；(4)通过循环利用和可持续性分析工具开发对天然气LIB技术进行闭环可持续性管理。长期教育目标是建立一个关于电动汽车环境可持续性的综合教育计划。为了实现这一目标，这项职业资助的教育目标是为生物实验室的环境可持续性提供前沿的研究知识和教育资源。本方案的教育计划包括：(1)通过课程开发和研究参与对学生进行教育和培训；(2)行业专业人士？通过工业研讨会、短期课程和会议研讨会开展教育和外联活动；(3)通过网络视频、公共广播节目和网站可下载材料进行公众教育和宣传。该项目的主要创新包括开发基于过程的数学模型和通过实验验证的工具，以了解和提高NG LIB技术的环境可持续性。该项目旨在引导天然气LIB技术在大规模工业生产中的开发和应用，减少环境影响和经济成本。NG LIB正在使用纳米技术进行开发，但在实际生产中存在重大的可持续性问题。此外，生产液化天然气产生的纳米废物和纳米颗粒排放可能对职业和公众健康构成严重的暴露风险。此外，天然气LIB的生产是非常能源密集型的，这不仅会对环境造成影响，而且还会导致天然气LIB产品的高成本。该项目旨在减少天然气LIB制造废弃物和排放（包括纳米颗粒排放），提高能源效率，增强天然气LIB技术的可持续发展，为未来大规模应用于电动汽车做好准备。天然气LIB技术的环境可持续性表现非常重要，在未来大规模应用于电动汽车之前，必须充分研究和改进。研究结果将通过学术期刊、会议论文集、网络媒体等广泛传播，并将提高人们对天然气LIB技术潜在环境影响的理解，并有助于开发用于电动汽车的天然气LIB生产的可持续基础设施。在实践中，研究成果将由行业合作伙伴（GM和JC）应用。教育方面的影响包括让高中学生和教师参与进来，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UWM目前的两门课程中（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士开设一门短期课程，通过UWM的在线硕士项目提供课程材料。在领先的工业公司（GM和JC）和首映会议研讨会（ISSST）举办研讨会，在国家高影响力的数据库和网站（如NSDL和NCLT）上分享材料，并为公众提供视频和公共广播节目。本项目将培养1名博士后、1名博士生和2名本科生（由NSF REU和UWM SURF项目支持）。未被充分代表的学生将从威斯康星大学学生专业社团中招募。这些教材将与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.