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Battery research centre, Ikerlan

In the development of batteries, different types of batteries have been extracted with different battery performances. The goal is to learn the technology of these batteries to develop new products.

We have three climate cameras in this lab. Here we can play with the temperature, from -20 degrees to 85 degrees.Here we include batteries to simulate the working conditions of the batteries.At the same time we have cyclers at the end, these cyclers charge and discharge the battery from a thousand amps to 500 amps and from 1,000 volts to 100 volts, so we can play with different charges and discharges in different applications. This is how we simulate the battery as if it were in its working environment, to see how it degrades, how it is thermally repaired, how it is electrically connected... and at the same time, here we have a calorimeter to calculate the specific capacity of the battery and how much heat it generates, then work that heat efficiently.

In this development of batteries, different types of batteries have been extracted with different battery performances. In the end, it is about learning the technology of these batteries to develop new products.Here you can see different batteries with different shapes, powers and energies. This allows us to introduce these batteries in different areas.

In the elevator application, when it is going down, the elevator releases a lot of energy, and when it is going up, at the first moment, it absorbs a lot. So the idea is to put a battery system in there to manage that energy.In this way, the power you hire is reduced. Here is an example developed by Orona, in which we also participated.