With its equipment, the electrode production laboratory offers optimum conditions for the production of electrode and separator slurries for lithium-ion batteries with all common active materials. A wide range of mixing and dispersing methods with different energy inputs are available for mixing and dispersing solvent- and water-based slurries in the low to high viscosity range (30 to 35,000 mPas). The substrates are coated with slurries using an industrially designed coater. Knife coaters and slot dies in a roll-to-roll process with an integrated drying tunnel are available as coating units. The coater enables the constant coating of anodes, cathodes and separators over many metres.
Equipment:
- Thinky ARE-250 C3 planetary centrifugal mixer
- Small disperser IKA Ultratorrax T18 basic
- Rotor/stator shearing unit IKA Magic Lab, volume 0.1 to 1.5 litres
- High-performance dissolver shearing unit Getzmann, volume 0.2 to 1 litre
- Netzsch PMH 1 planetary mixer
- Kneader Inoue Trimix TX-0.5, volume 0.5 litres
- Kneader Inoue Trimix TX-2, volume 2 litres
- Rheometer Brookfield DV3T
- Coater KMS Technology Centre TC-10 with separating device, holder for various casting tools, web edge control, wrapping device
- Explosion-proof vacuum drying oven, volume 60 litres
- Büchi B585 glass furnace
- Henkelman Boxer 42 XL vacuum packaging machine (with protective gas Ar 5.0)
- Hinged tube oven Nabertherm RSH 120/500/13 with vacuum and inert gas option