Improve product quality and optimize production of anode, cathode, and electrolyte EV battery component manufacturing.
Battery component manufacturers must not only deliver consistent overall quality – they must deliver it throughout the manufacturing process. The continuity of the manufacturing process means errors or impurities at an early stage will accumulate, resulting in much larger consequences further down the production line. Quality needs to be monitored at every stage – from raw materials through to cell assembly – to maintain production efficiency and minimize waste. Emerson advanced measurement solutions ensure accurate batch control for consistent product quality.
Control Anode, Cathode and Electrolyte Batch Quality
Ensure on-spec product with direct mass and density measurement of ingredients in mixing and reacting tanks.
Control Quality with Reliable Precursor pH Measurement
Optimize the pH parameter of your precursor with sensors designed to withstand high sulfide content.
Monitor Electrode Slurry Quality Using Viscosity Meters
Ensure the correct thickness of the anode and cathode slurry with automated, inline viscosity measurement in the mixing, coating and drying stages of production.
Ensure Electrolyte Quality with Reliable Conductivity Sensors
Get the correct and expected electrolyte composition by reliably monitoring conductivity using chemically resistant sensors.
DeltaV Batch Analytics Software
With online Batch Analytics, a multi-variate analysis of your process is performed based on models generated from a compilation of historical batches.
Movicon.NExT Recipe Management Module
Movicon is the Emerson’s new industrial software platform brings a new-generation of HMI/SCADA system with a modular and easily scalable software.
Control Reactor/Mixing Tank Level with Non-Contacting Radar
Prevent overfills in anode, cathode and electrolyte reactors with reliable, non-contacting radar level measurement
Uneven chemical dosage addition can lead to costly chemical waste, raw material inconsistencies creating costly product scrap, and uncontrolled fugitive emissions. Emerson specialized control valves and control valve sizing ensures reliable operations.
Fisher™ FIELDVUE™ DVC6200 Digital Valve Controller
The Fisher FIELDVUE DVC6200 instrument allows for your operation to run closer to setpoint, improving product quality with more accurate control.
Fisher Exotic Alloy Globe and Rotary Control Valves
Severe service control valves are used in the most difficult installations within your process plant.
Fisher V500 Eccentric Plug Valves
The Fisher CV500 valve combines the rangeability of the cammed, segmented V-notched ball, with inherent ruggedness in the heavy duty bearings, seals, and body.
Knife Gate Isolation Valves
We manufacture knife gate valves for light to heavy slurry service in the mining and mineral processing, power, pulp and paper, waste water and chemical industries.
KTM Ball Valves and Vanessa Triple Offset Valves
Emerson has an extensive isolation valve portfolio designed and tested to provide the performance necessary to keep your processes safely operating at maximum efficiency.
Keystone F990 Butterfly Valves
Emerson’s Keystone offer a complete range of butterfly valves from general purpose through to heavy duty and high performance models.
Implementing automated safetey systems with fast response is key to cost effectively minimize incidents and keep people and the environment safe.
DeltaV Safety Systems
The DeltaV SIS™ takes a modern approach to increase safety integrity while improving process availability.
Safety Sensors Certified to IEC 61508
Emerson sensors are designed for safety, with specific consideration to ensure very low numbers of Dangerous Undetected failures and diagnostic coverage for increased safety.
Roxar and Permasense Corrosion Monitoring Solutions
Our non-intrusive systems use unique sensor technology and wireless data delivery to continuously monitor for pipework metal loss from corrosion or erosion in the most difficult environments.
Safety Shower Monitoring
To help first responders meet regulatory best practices and reach safety stations quickly, refiners can install a cost-effective monitoring system for safety showers and eyewash stations, featuring a wireless discrete transmitter with an electromagnetic latched GO Switch kit.
Ultrasonic Gas Leak Detection
Ultrasonic gas leak detection uses acoustic sensors to identify fluctuations in noise that is imperceptible to human hearing within a process environment.
Delivering an optimal and consistent particle size distribution doesn’t just add value to electrode materials, it’s key to ensuring final product quality – enabling manufacturers to optimize; slurry viscosity and flow behavior; coating packing density and porosity; battery cell charge rate capacity and cycling durability. Emerson solutions ensure product quality and optimize production.
DeltaV Batch Analytics Software
With online Batch Analytics, a multi-variate analysis of your process is performed based on models generated from a compilation of historical batches.
Innovative Measurement and Analytical Technology
Delivering the broadest range of measurement and analytical technologies for process clarity and insight.
Solutions to ensure safety and optimize production
Emerson’s leading measurement, control and electrical technologies, global network of application experts, and engineering solution services make the company the ideal partner in this emerging technology.
Emerson is an expert solution partner with the flexibility to meet a wide variety of demanding applications, from mining, refining, cell production and battery assembly
Emerson technologies, including health monitoring solutions and sitewide safety strategy expertise, position Emerson as the perfect partner for mining-based solutions that can help companies adopt and implement mining solutions at scale.
Emerson’s ability to provide technology, engineering and deep expertise across the Lithium Ion Battery supply chain, accelerates the development of EV Batteries as a viable sustainable energy source.
Frequently Asked Questions about EV Battery Component Manufacturing
Critical raw materials used in manufacturing Li-ion batteries (LIBs) include lithium, graphite, cobalt, and manganese. As electric vehicle deployments increase, Lithium EV battery production for vehicles is becoming an increasingly important source of demand.
Lithium battery component (or battery cell) manufacturing is done in sets of electrodes and then assembled into battery cells. To produce electricity, lithium EV batteries shuttle lithium ions internally from one layer, called the anode, to another, the cathode. The two are separated by yet another layer, the electrolyte.
Every generation of battery design – cylindrical, prismatic, polymer pouch, and now, solid state - challenges technical limits and demands more from battery assembly technology. Ultrasonic welding solutions reliably bond the thinner, more delicate metals and advanced hybrid films needed to build more energy-dense batteries.
Typical cathode materials, such as NCA and NMC, are produced through co-precipitation of transition-metal hydroxide precursor materials, followed by calcination (lithiation and oxidation) with a lithium compound.
Cathode active materials are composed of lithium and metal. Active materials have different characteristics depending on type and ratio of metals. For example, Ni (Nickel) has high capacity, Mn (Manganese) and Co (Cobalt) have high safety and Al (Aluminum) increases power of a battery.
The anode (or negative electrode) in a lithium-ion battery is typically made up of graphite, coated in copper foil. Graphite is a crystalline solid with a black/grey color and a metallic sheen. Due to its electronic structure, it is highly conductive and can reach 25,000 S/cm2 in the plane of a single crystal.
Emerson helps customers across some of the world’s most essential industries make measurable sustainability progress, and we stand poised to help others along the same journey.
