Advanced Energy (Page 12)

A standard electric vehicle (EV) automotive battery can be decomposed into cell level, module level, and pack level. A cell mainly includes the anodes and cathodes, a module includes multiple cells, and a pack includes multiple modules. The three most common metal-to-metal joints in a lithium-ion battery pack are foil-to-tab, tab-to-tab, and tab-to-bus. All three...

The hydrogen economy is forecasted to grow significantly. The infrastructure required to support its emergence means more materials will contact high pressure hydrogen as it is created, stored, transported, and used as a fuel. Seals, gaskets, and non-metallic pipelines are prime examples of polymers that hydrogen will readily encounter along its life cycle. Hydrogen is...

Inconel 718 components produced using additive manufacturing (AM) generally require heat treatment to form strengthening precipitates and optimize the phase fractions of all precipitates. Work done at EWI has been focused on developing a heat treatment procedure specifically for AM-generated IN718 parts. The results of this research are discussed in Optimization of the Post Heat...