Extraction with Crown Ethers: A Promising Approach for Lithium-ion Battery Recycling

Many of the high-performance portable electronics and electric vehicles (EVs) on the market depend on lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) as their primary energy source. If millions of EVs are to be manufactured each year, rigorous resource management for EV battery manufacturing, as well as a material- and energy efficient 3R system (reduce, re-use,...

Predicting state of health and remaining useful lifetime of lithium-ion batteries for eVTOLs using data-driven machine learning

Electrolyte design for high-energy density Lithium-ion battery with pure Silicon anode

Silicon anodes can boost the energy density of lithium-ion batteries due to its high theoretical capacity up to ~3600 mAh/g. However, a challenge of the use of silicon anode is 300% swelling/shrink upon lithiation/delithiation, which is a major cause of battery failure. A lithium-ion battery with silicon anode requires the formation of a...

Thermal behaviour of lithium-ion batteries and the implications on submarine system design

Submarines face an ongoing (technical) battle to improve the operational effectiveness by increasing the submerged endurance and range. Installing lithium-ion batteries on new or refitted diesel-electric submarines has become increasingly interesting based on their relatively high energy density and specific energy. The characteristics compared...

Energy carriers that contribute to a zero-emission container terminal: A simulation-based research on ECT's automated guided vehicle fleet

The brownfield container terminal at the Maasvlakte aims at realizing a zero-emission vehicle fleet to strive for its aim to be zero-emission by 2040. Therefore, the research question is as follows: “What are the consequences for costs and operational performance of implementing mature renewable energy carriers for AGVs at the container...

Concept Design of Hybrid Crane Vessel

Heerema Marine Contractors operates large crane vessels, which are exploited for installation works in the offshore oil and gas industry. The benchmark power system of these crane vessels is diesel electric meaning that the main engines are driving alternators for generating electric power. But due to spiky power demand and strict redundancy...