Competence cluster for battery cell production meets at MEET
A German battery cell factory - this is what politics, industry and science are striving for. Twelve research institutions therefore joined forces in 2016 to form "ProZell", a competence cluster funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) that is going to carry out research projects on the research topic of battery cell production until 2019. Last Monday and Tuesday (October 1 and 2, 2018), more than 70 scientists met at MEET to draw up an interim report.
The automotive industry is increasingly dominated by electromobility. It is to be expected that countries will only be able to play a significant role in the future market if they are able to cover all stages of the value chain of an electric car. In Germany there is still one central stage missing for this: battery cell production. The project partners from "ProZell" under the coordination of Prof. Dr. Arno Kwade from the Technical University of Braunschweig are devoting themselves to this very topic.
Within the framework of twelve current projects, the scientists are identifying potentials, obstacles and solution strategies for the necessary sub-process steps of battery cell production in Germany. MEET is involved in three of these projects - under the leadership of Dr. Falko Schappacher, the Managing Director of MEET and head of the MEET-division "Cell System":
- Cell-Fi: Acceleration of electrolyte uptake through optimized filling and betting processes Read more
- OptiZellForm: Acceleration and energetic optimization of cell formation Read more
- ProKal: Process modeling of the calendering of high-energy electrodes Read more
Find further information on the research approach here.
