MMAE Seminar - Lithium Ion Batteries for Transportation Applications
Dr. Wenquan Lu from Argonne National Laboratory will visit IIT on November 12th, 2014 to present a seminar "Lithium Ion Batteries for Transportation Applications."
Abstract
Due to its high energy and power characteristics, lithium ion battery has been identified as critical enabling technologies for advanced, fuel-efficient vehicles, including HEVs, PHEVs, and EVs. However, it is still very challenging for lithium ion battery to meet all the requirements for use in vehicles, which includes energy, power, calendar and cycle life, abuse tolerance, low-temperature performance, and cost. These issues are being investigated at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) under Applied Battery Research for Transportation (ABRT) program sponsored by Department of Energy. Currently, a lot of advanced battery materials and cell chemistries have been investigated to address these issues. Better understanding has been achieved through this exercise for lithium ion battery, as a whole system. This knowledge is used to develop new and better materials and cell chemistries to improve Li-ion cell's performance. Accordingly, some efforts and achievements at ANL will be discussed in this presentation.
Biography
Dr. Wenquan Lu is holding a principle chemical engineer position at Argonne National Laboratory. He received both his Bachelor and Master Degree from Tsinghua University. After receiving his Ph.D. at Illinois Institute of Technology in 2002, Dr. Lu spent few years at University of Virginia and Argonne National Laboratory as postdoc. Then, he joined Greatbatch Inc. to investigate the lithium battery for implantable medical devices. Now, Dr. Lu is leading the effort to screen and evaluate cell components of lithium ion batteries to be used for Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEV) at Argonne National Laboratory. Dr. Lu has spent about 15 years in electrochemistry area. His research experiences include lithium battery, fuel cell, and capacitor.
Acknowledgement
Support from David Howell and Peter Faguy of the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Vehicle Technologies Program is gratefully acknowledged.