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Consequences of poor material handling, including bottlenecked production, excessive particle attrition, ingredient segregation, and bulk density variations, can result in quality deviation, cell overheating, and compromised battery life and performance. Expertise in powder behavior is crucial for successful processing in various applications, such as blending, storing, transferring, granulating, and cell formation.

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Overview

Batteries

The battery and power storage industry is rapidly growing, especially with the rising popularity of electrical & hybrid vehicles and consumer electronics.

With increase in global demand and the need for high yield use of raw ingredients such as Lithium (Li), Cobalt (Co), Nickel (Ni), and Graphite, proper bulk solids handling is critical, in order to deliver batteries with a uniform, reliable, consistently high charge density, and long life.

Production line for lithium battery cells for the automotive or e-bike industry.

Services

Batteries & Power Storage Services

On-site review and root cause assessment of flow problems
Conceptual and detailed engineering design of storage vessels, press hoppers, and feeders
Pneumatic conveying system testing and design
Handling system scale-up and automation assistance

Challenge

Common Battery Industry Challenges

Jenike & Johanson provides the knowledge, expertise and experience of how powders behave. Whether it’s blending, storing, transferring, granulating, or cell formation our engineers know how to ensure successful processing.

Several consequences of poor material handling include:

Poor material flow out of a press feed hopper can bottleneck production, and require frequent operator intervention.
Excessive particle attrition (i.e., breakage) as a result of improper material handling affecting the particle size distribution and adversely influencing the compaction process and resulting pellet strength.
Improper material handling can also lead to ingredient segregation and bulk density variations, which in turn can cause out-of-spec cell chemistry and poor compaction.

These issues can lead to quality deviation, cell overheating, and degraded battery life and performance.

Press feed hopper for reliably feeding a cathode powder into a press, resolving issues with material segregation and variability.

Materials

Common Materials Handled

Here is a shortened list of some of the most common bulk materials we have successfully handled in the Battery industry to date. Please reach out to us if you’d like to discuss our experience with your specific material.