Technical Program for Battery and Energy Storage 2023 | AIChE

Technical Program for the 5th Battery and Energy Storage Conference

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Please note this schedule is subject to change. Please check back for updates.

November 15, 2023 (wednesday)

9:30AM-10:00AM Registration and Badge Pick-Up for ANL Tour participants
10:00AM - 12:00PM Tour of the Argonne National Lab Facilities*
9:30AM - 5:00PM Registration and Badge Pick-Up                                                                                                                                        
12:00PM - 1:00PM Welcome Lunch

1:00PM - 1:10PM

Welcome Remarks: Venkat Srinivasan, ACCESS & JCESR

1:10PM - 2:00PM

Opening Keynote Address: Denise Gray, DKTN Consulting LLC & LG Energy Solution

"WOW!! It is actually happening!"

2:00PM - 5:40PM Session 1Manufacturing & Recycling

Session Chair: Alexander Urban, Columbia University
2:00PM - 2:30PM

Invited Speaker: Jeff Sakamoto, University of Michigan

"Advanced Manufacturing of Oxide Electrolyte Batteries and 3D Electrodes"

2:30PM - 3:00PM

Invited Speaker: Alan West, Columbia University

"Sustaining the Energy Transition: Hydrometallurgical Processes for Cu and Ni"

3:00PM - 3:30PM

Invited Speaker: Qiang Dai, ANL

"Towards Cost-effective and Environmentally-friendly Battery Recycling"

3:30PM - 4:00PM Coffee Break
4:00PM - 4:30PM

Invited Speaker: Eric Frederickson, Call2Recycle

"Battery Circularity: The Unanswered Questions."

4:30PM - 5:00PM

Invited Speaker: Nathan Nye, Tesla

"The Dangers of Overly Prescriptive Legislation for Battery Technologies"

5:00PM - 5:20PM

Selected Abstract: 

Sebastian Lange (Brueckner Group USA) "Enhancing Battery Technologies with Biaxially Oriented Films"

November 16, 2023 (THURSday)

7:30AM - 5:00PM Registration and Badge Pick-Up                                                                                                                                          

7:30AM - 8:00 AM

Networking & Morning Coffee

8:00AM - 8:10AM

Morning Remarks: Venkat Srinivasan, ACCESS & JCESR

8:10AM - 9:00AM

Keynote Address: Linda Nazar, University of Waterloo

"Solid State Batteries:  The Superionic Electrolytes and the Interfaces That Underpin Them"

9:00AM -12:30PM

Session 2Transportation Electrification

Session Chair: Nav Nidhi Rajput, Stony Brook University

9:00AM - 9:30AM

Invited Speaker: Venkat Viswanathan, Univeristy of Michigan

"Outlook for battery-powered flight"

9:30AM - 10:00AM

Invited Speaker: Jie Xiao, PNNL

“An Integrated Science and Engineering Approach for Next-Generation EV Battery Materials and Technologies”

10:00AM - 10:30AM

Invited Speaker: Rana Mohtadi, Toyota

"Material solutions for future electrification: Role of advancements in electrolytes"

10:30AM - 10:50AM

Coffee Break

10:50AM - 11:20AM

Invited Speaker: Celina Mikolajczak, Lyten

"Li-S Cell Development and Manufacturing at Lyten"

11:20AM - 11:50AM

Invited Speaker: Shirley Meng, ACCESS & The University of Chicago

"Advanced Diagnostic Tools for Lithium Metal and Solid State Batteries"

11:50AM - 12:30PM Lunch
12:30PM - 1:30PM

Selected Abstracts

Zhijia Du (Oak Ridge National Lab) "Charging Ahead/All Charged up: New Technology Goes the Extra Mile for Extreme-Fast Charging of Electric Vehicles"

Krishna Iyer (Natrion) "Safe, Scalable Lithium-Metal Battery Cells for Electric Vehicles"

Craig Mascarenhas (Harvard University) "Investigating New-Age Lithium Battery Performance Under Stratospheric Conditions for Solar-Power High-Altitude Long-Endurance (HALE) Electric Aircraft Flight"

1:30PM - 4:50PM

Session 3: Future of Energy

Session Chair: Venkat Srinivasan

1:30PM  - 1:35PM

Remarks from ANL Director Paul Kearns

1:35PM - 2:25PM

Keynote Speaker: Michael Berube, DOE

"Decarbonizing the U.S. Transportation Sector – the U.S. Blueprint and a Plan to Make it Happen"

2:25PM - 3:15PM

Keynote Speaker: Eric Hsieh, DOE

“Composing an Ecosystem: Lessons for the Energy Storage Industry from the Pop Music World”

3:15PM - 3:35PM

Coffee Break

3:35PM - 4:25PM

Keynote Speaker: Dave Howell, DOE

"U.S. Department of Energy Activities to Support Battery Innovation, Manufacturing, and Supply Chains"

4:25PM - 4:55PM

Invited Speaker: Ellen Hughes-Cromwick, Third Way

"US Competitiveness Across 10 Clean Energy Technologies"

4:55PM - 5:15PM Transition Break
5:15PM - 7:00PM Future of Energy Reception & Poster Session 

November 17, 2023 (FRIday)

7:30AM - 12:00PM Registration and Badge Pick-Up                                                                                                                                                                                            

7:30AM - 8:00AM

Networking & Morning Coffee
8:00AM - 8:10AM Morning Remarks: Venkat Srinivasan, ACCESS & JCESR

8:10AM - 9:00AM

Keynote Address: Yet-Ming Chiang, MIT

"The Iron-Energy Nexus and Long-Duration Storage”

9:00AM - 12:30PM

Session 4Grid-Scale Energy Storage

Session Chair: Susan J Babinec

9:00AM - 9:30AM

Invited Speaker: Julia Song, ESS Inc.

"Catalyzing the Clean Future with All-Iron Redox Flow Batteries"

9:30AM - 10:00AM

Invited Speaker: Sanjoy Banerjee, Urban Electric Power

"Perspectives on Scale-Up of Zinc Alkaline Batteries for Grid-Scale Energy Storage"

10:00AM - 10:30AM

Invited Speaker: Colin Wessells, Natron

"Sodium-Ion Batteries: Recent Advances, Opportunities, and Challenges"

10:30AM - 11:00AM Coffee Break
11:00AM - 11:30AM

Invited Speaker: David Bradwell, AMBRI

"Ambri - Commercializing Liquid Metal Batteries for Long-Duration Grid-Scale Stationary Energy Storage Applications"

11:30AM - 12:30PM

Selected Abstracts

Ruby-Jean Clark (NETenergy) "Design and Optimization of Thermal Energy Storage System (TES) Using Thermochemical Material (TCM)"

Michael Marshak (Otoro Energy) "Otoro Energy - Safe and Low Cost Flow Batteries for Long Duration Energy Storage"

Eungje Lee (ANL) "Development of Sustainable Electrode Materials for Sodium-Ion Batteries"

12:30PM - 12:45PM Closing Remarks

*This tour is not included in registration, please remember to add the $10 tour ticket add-on to your registration. If you have already registered and would like to add the ticket, please contact customerservice@aiche.org