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Lab facilities

What do we offer?

We offer our infrastructure to perform all kinds of standardized or custom-defined battery tests within a wide range of controlled temperature on every cell form factor e.g. cylindrical, pouch, and prismatic

Battery fabrication for proof of concept: Prototype fabrication and upscaling
Physio-chemical testing of battery electrodes
Cycling and aging, internal resistance through HPPC, high current pulse testing, drive cycle testing, fast charging testing
Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy
Mechanical pressure application and testing on cells
Customized testing profiles, data acquisition and logging, state estimation, and electro-thermal control development

1. Battery testing up to 5-10V

Available equipment:
- 2 PEC ACT0550 (160 channels)
- 2 PEC SBT0550 (48 channels)
- 1 PEC CT0550 (40 channels)
- Neware BTS 10V6A (104 channels)
- Neware BTS 5V10mA (6 channels)
Specifications:
- +Max. current: 50 A/channel (up to 1000 A in parallel)
- +Operating voltage range: 5-10V
- +Temperature sensors on each channel

2. Battery testing high voltage

Available equipment:
- 1 PEC SBT8050 (12 channels)
- 1 DIGATRON (1 channel)
Specifications:
- +Operating voltage range: 0 - 80 V (PEC) or 0 - 1000 V (DIGATRON)
- +Max. current: 50 A/channel (up to 600 A in parallel)
- +Max. power: 16 kW (DIGATRON)
- +Multiple temperature sensors per channel

3. Battery high frequency testing

Available equipment:
- Bio-Logic VSP (5 channels)
- Bio-Logic BCS (16 channels)
- Bio-Logic 2X MPG (16 channels)
Specifications:
- +Operating voltage range: 0 - 5 V
- +Max. currency: 5 A/channel (up to 100 A with booster)
- +Frequency: 20 kHz - 10 mHz (2x MPG) or 1 MHZ - 1 mHz (VSP)

4. Climate control testing

Available equipment:
- CTS Climate rooms (3x 1.7x2.1 m3, 3x 1.4x2.1m3, 3x 1x2.1 m3)
- CTS Climate chambers (3x 350 L, 6x 250 L, 1x 50 L)
Specifications:
- +Temperature: -40 - 180°C
- +Relatively Humidity (10 - 80 %)
- +Programmable Seasonal

5. Battery heat distribution measurement

Available equipment: 1 FLIR A655Sc IR camera
- 1 Fluke Ti25 IR camera
Specifications:
- +Resolution: -640x480 (FLIR), 160x120 (Fluke)
- +Frame rate: -50 Hz, 200 Hz at low resolution
- +Temperature range: 40 °C - 150 °C
- +Unlimited Video Recording

6. Battery post mortem analysis fabrication

Available equipment:
- Panalytical In-situ XRD
- Jacomex Glove Box
Specifications:
- +Controlled environment below 1 ppm H2O and O2
- +AR controlled environment in Glove Box
- +Mo and Cu radiation in-situ XRD

7. Battery prototype

Available equipment:
- Dry Room (45m2) -60°C dewpoint
- Battery Electrode Coater (Doctor Blading)
- Hydrolic Cell Crimper
- Vacuum Mixer
- Planetary Ball Mill
- Electrode Disc Cutter
- Vacuum Oven
- Pouch cell sealer
- Hot Rolling Press
- Viscometer
- Pouch sealer
- Heatable Die & Hydrolic Press
Specifications:
- +Battery fabrication for liquid and solid electrolyte batteries

8. dSPACE MicroLabBox

Available equipment:
- Compact lab prototyping unit
- Dual-core real-time processor
- Kintex FPGA
- 100+ I/O channels
Specifications:
- 2 GHz processing frequency
- 1 GB DRAM
- CAN Channels
- 14-&16-bit Analogue inputs
- 48 Digital I/O at 10ns resolution

9. Typhoon Hil

Available equipment:
- Typhoon HIL Battery Real Testing
Specifications:
- BNC for Cinergia AIO
- DSUB for Cinergia AIO and DIO
- DSUB for CAN BUS
- DSUB for dSPACE DS4003 (NI PXIe-7856R) DIO (3 DIO DSUB Connectors - 16 x DI and 16 x DO each)
- DSUB for dSPACE DS5101 PWM (12 PWM inputs, and 12 PWM outputs)
- BNC for dSpace A/D module DS2002/2003 (16 Channels)
- BNC for spare AI (NI PXIe-7856R)
- DSUB for spare AO (NI PXIe-7856R, PEC SBT8050)

Want to know more ? Contact us !

Prof. Dr. Maitane Berecibar

Head Battery Innovation Centre

maitane.berecibar@vub.be

+32 2 629 38 55