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

职业：下一代电动汽车锂离子电池的环境可持续性

• 批准号: 1744031
• 负责人: Chris Yuan
• 金额: $ 35.75万
• 依托单位: Case Western Reserve University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-02-01 至 2021-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1744031&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Environmental; Sustainability; Next; Generation

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.

1351602元。 这项CAREER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，约翰逊控制和PE国际合作，为电池供电的电动汽车（BEV）的NG LIB的可持续设计和制造创建可持续性分析工具。更具体地说，这项职业资助的研究目标包括：（1）NG LIB制造排放的建模和调查;（2）通过原位和非原位技术对NG LIB制造中的纳米颗粒排放进行实验调查;（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。长期教育目标是建立一个关于纯电动汽车环境可持续性的全面教育计划。为了实现这一目标，该CAREER补助金的教育目标是为NG LIB的环境可持续性提供尖端的基于研究的知识和教育资源。本方案的教育计划包括：（1）通过课程开发和参与研究对学生进行教育和培训;（2）工业专业人员？通过行业研讨会、短期课程和会议研讨会开展教育和外联活动;（3）通过在线视频、公共广播节目和网站下载材料开展公众教育和宣传。该项目的主要创新包括开发基于过程的数学模型和工具，通过实验验证，以了解和改善NG LIB技术的环境可持续性。该项目旨在引导NG 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，这些技术在真实的生产中具有重大的可持续性问题。此外，NG LIB生产中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，NG LIB生产非常耗能，这不仅对环境造成影响，而且还导致NG LIB产品的高成本。该项目旨在减少NG LIB制造过程中的废物和排放（包括纳米颗粒排放），提高能源效率，并促进NG LIB技术的可持续发展，以供未来大规模应用于电动汽车。NG LIB技术的环境可持续性性能非常重要，在未来电动汽车大规模应用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、网络媒体等广泛传播，并将提高人们对NG LIB技术潜在环境影响的理解，并协助开发用于电动汽车的NG LIB生产的可持续基础设施。在实践中，研究成果将被工业合作伙伴（GM和JC）应用。教育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，将研究成果整合到两门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国家工业专业人员教授短期课程，通过UWM的在线MS课程提供课程材料，在领先的工业公司（GM和JC）举办研讨会，举办首映会议研讨会（ISSST），分享国家数字化发展和国家文化技术中心（NSDL和NCLT）等国家高影响力数据库和网站中的材料，并为公众提供视频和公共广播节目。本项目将培养博士后1名，博士1名。学生和两名本科生（与NSF REU和UWM SURF计划的支持）。代表性不足的学生将从UWM学生专业协会招募。教育材料将与PI在美国和中国的合作者共享。