7:20am

Registration And Morning Refreshments Networking

8:00am

Thermal Management Solutions To Optimise Battery Safety And Performance 

• How can an optimal thermal management system strategy be developed and what are the next-generation objectives?

• Assessing current technologies/methods for thermal conductivity and inclusion technology.

• Implementing thermal management to optimise battery life.

• How close are we to consolidating an industry standard in thermal management architecture?

• How to effectively measure and evaluate thermal management solutions

• The role of material science in thermal management

8:20am

Tackling The Heat-Generating Factors To Consider When Designing A Thermal Management System 

• Effectively managing the dangers of thermal runaway and its consequences.

• The latest thermal insulation systems tacking heat generation issues: Insulation characteristics, effective fire retardants and self-extinguishing materials.

• New break throughs in material science and their role in thermal management.

• Best practices in achieving temperature homogeneity.

• How to manage external temperature variation & thermal shock – advanced thermal insulation systems.

• Thermal management system and thermal management material innovations.

9:40am

Simulation To Aid Design: Accurately Predicting Thermal Performance And State Of Health Of A Battery Pack

• How to harness digital technology to improve battery design.

• Exploring the application of multi-scale modelling to battery pack design.

• Lifespan prediction: The importance of understanding degradation

• Simulation-based validation of energy management strategies for xEVs

• A full vehicle simulation approach to optimized energy management of EVs

10:00am                                         

Increased Virtualisation In Battery Pack Design

Bill Beverly, Co-Founder, Technology and Engineering, Evolectric

• A scalable battery pack model – how to capture integrations between mechanical, electrical, electrochemical and thermal disciplines and enable virtualisation of the design process to increase confidence in the final product performance early in the design phase.

• Couple mechanical, thermal and electro-chemical characteristics to match early design integration.

• Reviewing results and closing the loop on design, test and process controls before a production transition.

10:20am

Networking Break

Network Break Sponsorship/Host 

11:00am

Key Challenges In Thermal Management And Innovation Requirements 

• Limiting battery heat fluctuations in battery performance: Understanding your batteries capability requirements in terms of temperature variations.

• Do you need to dissipate or insulate heat?

• Challenges concerning the size of the battery pack

• Thermal Management Systems (TMS) and the choice of Thermal Interface Materials (TIMs)

• Striking the balance: Cost vs Performance – what are the key decision criteria?

11:20am                                           

Matching Battery Thermal Management Systems To More Powerful Batteries To Improve The Energy Storing Capabilities of BEV’s

Ahmad Presara, Chief Energy Storage Engineer, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

• How to increase power whilst maintaining thermal stability.

• Increasing tolerance for operating temperatures.

• What advanced thermal management solutions are required to better protect the battery itself – stability in extreme temperature variations.

• Protecting power electronics: Material challenges for motors, components and connectors.

• Battery insulation and lithium-ion battery separators.

• New electro-chemical mechanisms that might boost the specific energy performance of future batteries.

11:40am                                   

Next-Generation, Environment-Friendly Thermal Solutions For EV Batteries 

Pradyumma Goli, Business Development E-Mobility, Henkel Corporation 

• Innovative technologies with a focus on sustainability, lightweight & efficiency.

• The EV Powertrain deployed e-mobility solutions for (TIMs).

• Thermal conductive and resilience.

• Thermal Interface Materials (TIMs).

• Fundamentals of TIMs vs Thermal Resistance.

• Battery Systems – Liquid Gap Filling TIMs

• Long-term reliability testing.

12:00pm

Adhesive And Sealing Systems For High-Voltage Batteries In Electric Vehicles

• An overview of adhesive system and technology offerings for high-voltage batteries.

• Assessing desired strengths, service considerations and manufacturing requirements.

• Further options for replacing mechanical fastenings.

• Gap fillers such as suitable alternatives to thermally conductive pads.

• Thermal characteristics and requirements for high voltage batteries.

12:20pm                                   

Engineered Single-Phase Immersion Cooling For Thermal Management of Lithium-Ion Batteries

• Identifying key challenges and shortcomings of conventional methods of thermal management.

• Discussion of single-phase Liquid Immersion Cooling (SLIC) Technology.

• Recent demonstrations of batteries cooled with SLIC Technology.

• Accelerated charge/discharge rates and extended useful life of batteries cooled with SLIC Technology.

12:40pm

Networking Luncheon

Buffett Style

Sponsorship Opportunity

1:40pm                                 

Exploring Difference Cooling Strategies For Fast Charging And High Performance Electric Vehicles 

Dr Prahit Dubey – Technical Lead Thermal Engineering, Romeo Power Technology

• Identifying challenges and reviewing opportunities of liquid-cooling (bottom-cooled) solutions for battery thermal management.

• Deep diving into liquid-cooled battery modules for passenger and commercial BEV’s: A review of performance advances in high power and high helix flux applications.

• Introduction to thermal management of battery packs using novel submerged-cell cooling technology.

• Exploring submerged-cell cooling technology for high-performance electric vehicles through numerical and experimental investigations, and comparing its thermal performance to bottom-cooled solutions.

2:00pm                                             

Fast Charging & Batteries Of The Future: What Will Be The Impact Of Fast Charging On Battery Thermal Management?

Punnet Sinha – Director New Mobility, Siemens PLM & Mentor

• Ultra-capacitors and their role in future powertrains: Increasing power density for enhanced vehicle performance and reduce battery size.

• New battery materials and design for greater energy density and efficiency.

• Solid State batteries and their commercialisation.

• Lithium-ion innovation developing a batter that operates optimally across a wider range of temperatures.

• Battery Packing: Thermal dissipation Materials for assembling the battery.

2:20pm                                         

Managing The Impacts Of Fast Charging On Thermal Management Of The Battery Pack

Bret Trimmer, Application Engineering Manager, NEOGRAF Solutions

• Analysing thermal management as the primary accelerator for extended driving range per charge.

• The main thermal management in use today is aluminum; which is thick, heavy and poor conductor of heat. The challenge of using aluminium for extended driving range without the pack becoming too large and heavy to be practical.

• Flexible graphite: Same heat spread as aluminum, half the thickness and half the weight

• Case Study examples of graphite cooling fins from large scale marine Li-ion battery systems.

2:40pm                                 

Design And Material Packaging Solutions For Battery Modules  

• Thermal management and packaging solutions for battery modules.

• TMS from steel and aluminum liquid cold plates to heat, vapour chambers and encapsulated APG.

• Evaluating Polyimide foam technology for robust packaging: resistant to flames, noise and thermal runaway isolation.

3:00pm                                             

Ultra-Fast Charging Systems: Increasing Voltage And Current For Achieving Higher Charging Power

• Impact of UFC on Lithium-ion battery chemistries.

• Strategies for managing heat generation during ultra-fast charging

3:20pm

Silicone Solutions For EV Thermal Management – Battery And Beyond

• How to scale-up your battery pack design with silicone thermal management materials for better heat management.

• Identifying the wide range of needs related to battery pack insulation, battery assembly, component assembly, gap filing, power control units and cables/connectors.

• Effective thermal management within the battery pack and across the powertrain components.

• Customizing an approach to battery interstital fill, thermal interface, adhesives, potting and protective covering materials to meet design specifications.

3:40pm

Networking Break

Network Break Sponsorship/Host 

4:50pm                                

Selecting The Best Fit And Robust Thermal Interface Material For Effective Battery Cooling

• Challenging engineering – considering handling, storage, assembly and processing.

• How to select such a product?What to consider for the specific applications?

• High-performance cooling solutions for complex electronic systems

5:10pm                                         

Solid-State Technology – What Are The Thermal Management implications?

Sumin Zhu, Founder & CEO, Ampcera

• Impact of UFC on Lithium-ion battery chemistries.

• Strategies for managing heat generation during ultra-fast charging

5:30pm

What Are The Strategies And Options For Dealing With Battery End Of Life?

• The demand for Lithium-ion batteries could quadruple by 2030. Demand for global production of the battery materials, such as lithium, cobalt, manganese and graphite could grow similarly. What are the strategies for recycling batteries? Lithium-ion battery recycling has many challenges including regulation.

• Regulations on vehicle and battery recyclability.

• Designing for recyclability

• Packaging challenges for safe transportation and DDR

• Closing the loop modelling

• Practice examples of critical batteries in the real world

5:50pm                                

The Future Of Battery Thermal Management Summary: Chairs Closing Remarks 

6:00pm                                          

All-Attendee Evening Networking Drinks Reception