Will Norway drown in used Electric Vehicle batteries
NTNU Kveld: Will Norway drown in used EV batteries
NTNU Kveld: Will Norway drown in used EV batteries
Will Norway drown in used Electric Vehicle batteries? How to succeed in recirculation of batteries?
Time: Monday 20. February kl. 19–21 Location: Dokkhuset Scene at Solsiden, Trondheim Organizer: NTNU University Museum and NTNU Sustainability Language: English Tickets: NTNU Evening is free and open to everyone Facebook
The event will be photographed and live streamed from www.ntnu.no/kveld
The aim is to develop sustainable business models and efficient recycling processes for used electric vehicle batteries. The challenges are many and complex. It is fundamental to gain a holistic understanding of how to handle end-of-life batteries by studying technical, economic and design aspects of the battery value chain. To succeed, specialists in engineering and science, design and economics come together through an interdisciplinary research collaboration across six departments and four faculties at NTNU.
Speakers
Project manager
Associate professor Sulalit Bandyopadhyay leads NTNU's sustainability research on recirculation of batteries. His research utilizes fundamental chemical engineering in two broad areas - particle engineering and hydrometallurgy. He is center manager for the recently established research center for particle engineering at NTNU and a member of the Gemini center in hydrometallurgy - HYPROS. Sulalit received his doctorate in chemical engineering and is an associate professor at the Department of Chemical Process Technology.
Saad Ahmed examines in his PhD how to make batteries last longer. The exponential growth in electric vehicles in Norway will result in a large amount of discarded EV Lithium-ion batteries in the future. Reusing the batteries for other purposes may possibly extend the life of the batteries and delay recycling. Success depends on new sustainable business models. Saad explores current and new business models for used batteries in a Norwegian and EU context. He obtained his bachelor's degree in business administration in Pakistan and came to Norway for his master's degree in innovation and technology management at the University of Southeast Norway.
Leander Pantelatos’ research concerns the reuse of Lithium-ion car batteries and examining the user perspective in a residential context. Large car batteries have a lot of capacity left when they are replaced. Can they be used to store for example cheap electricity in homes? What risk do such batteries pose indoors? What is needed for people to feel confident about such solutions? Leander has a background in both mechanical engineering and industrial design, which he studied at NTNU. Leander is a Ph.D. at the Design Research Program at the Department of Design at NTNU.
Usman Saleem took his master's degree in chemical engineering at NTNU where he researched the recycling of the metal lithium from lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles. Inspired by the subject, he is now taking his PhD at the same institute where he is researching the development of solvents for lithium extraction. The goal is to recover lithium for repeated use in batteries.
