Enhanced-Lifespan Saggars for Battery Material Production Scale Up (SAGGAR-LIFE)

匣钵是一种陶瓷容器，用于在炉内烧制过程中包裹或保护产品。Saggar寿命对于电池材料生产的竞争力和增长来说是一个非常重要的经济因素，不仅因为Saggar的耐久性增加了每个Saggar可以制造的电池材料的数量，而且还减少了废物的产生，以及新Saggar和废Saggar的物流和运输成本。大多数常见的商业sagar是由不同比例的材料组成的，如氧化铝和二氧化硅。这种材料很容易受到化学侵蚀，也容易受到电池材料的腐蚀。随着电池材料生产市场的快速增长，有机会开发与电池材料具有良好兼容性的saggars，以提高saggars的使用寿命，使saggars能够在电池材料的多个生产周期中重复使用。增加saggar循环的次数可以显著减少saggar所需的体积，从而降低运营成本（OpEx）、资本成本（例如通过减少仓储），以及在saggar寿命结束时处理受污染的saggar对环境的影响。该项目将开发、筛选和测试具有商业竞争力的具有新颖成分和微结构的saggars，以大幅增加saggars的使用寿命，从而为长期商业规模生产电池材料提供可扩展saggars的采购途径。理想的陶瓷材料性能是高熔点、耐磨性、化学稳定性、适当的导热性和高温下的抗变形性。同时仔细考虑合适的原料粒度和孔隙度，以避免在电池材料制造过程中影响陶瓷材料的机械和耐化学性的微结构缺陷（如微裂纹，团聚，孔隙度）。这个由英国制造商组成的供应链联盟汇集了庄信万丰在电池材料生产方面的科学专业知识，Vulcan在saggar开发和制造方面的卓越成就，以及Lucideon在开发测试程序和标准方面的长期经验。这将使财团成员和英国在成本优化的过程中处于强大的竞争地位，同时利用和加强各自成员的专业领域。”

"A saggar is a ceramic container to enclose or protect product during the firing process within a furnace. Saggar lifespan is a very important economic factor for the competitiveness and growth of battery material production, not only because durability of the saggar increases the amount of battery material you can make per saggar, but also reduces waste generation, and the costs of logistics and transportation of new and waste saggars.Most common commercial saggars are composed of varying ratios of materials such as alumina and silica. Such materials can be susceptible to chemical attack and corrosion from the battery materials they are designed to hold. With a rapidly growing market for battery material production there is an opportunity to develop saggars that have favourable compatibility for battery materials to enhance the saggar lifespan, enabling re-use of the saggars for multiple production cycles of battery material. Increasing the number of saggar cycles significantly reduces the saggar volumes required, thereby reducing operating cost (OpEx), capital costs (for example by reducing warehousing), and the environmental impact of disposing contaminated saggars when they have reached end-of life.This project will develop, screen and benchmark commercially competitive saggars with novel compositions and microstructures to substantially increase saggar lifespan, thereby offering a sourcing route for scalable saggars for long-term commercial-scale production of battery materials. Ideal ceramic material properties are high melting point, wear resistance, chemical stability, appropriate thermal conductivity and deformation resistance at elevated temperature. Along with careful consideration of appropriate raw material particle size and porosity to avoid microstructural defects (e.g. microcracks, agglomerates, porosity) which have an impact in the mechanical and chemical resistance of the ceramic materials during the battery material manufacturing process.This supply-chain consortium of UK manufacturers brings together Johnson Matthey's scientific expertise in battery material production, Vulcan's excellence in saggar development and manufacture, and Lucideon's longstanding experience in developing testing programmes and standards. It will put the consortium members, and the UK, in a strong competitive position with a cost optimised process, both using and enhancing the respective members' areas of expertise."