Dry Room

NECCES Dry Room and Battery Facility is an open user facility providing researchers from academia and industry with a state-of-the-art lab environment for lithium battery manufacturing and testing. With our climate-controlled dry room (600 ft2 with four-person capacity and < 0.5% relative humidity) equipped with a full pouch cell assembly line and top-of-the-line cell testing equipment, an explicit evaluation of battery materials/chemistries in a timely manner is provided in a close-to-industrial format, closing the gap between the lab discovery and industrial applications. Partnering with NECCES and Ƶ offers an opportunity to collaborate with experts on campus and provides access to other labs and facilities.

WHAT WE OFFER: 

  • A state-of-the-art lab environment for lithium batteries research, development, manufacturing and testing
  • Critical infrastructure for design, fabricate and characterizations of your latest discoveries in energy storage
  • Unique opportunity to consult or collaborate with talent and creative experts at BU
  • Access to other state-of-the-art labs and facilities.
  • “one-stop-service” to support all your need in R&D and demonstrating your technology
  • Privacy and control of your intellectual property

Pouch Cell Facilities:

  • 600 ft2 dry room (four-person capacity and < 0.5% relative humidity) 
  • Slurry Mixing Machine (6L volume, connected to vacuum pump for degassing and chiller for mixing temperature control)
  • Reverse Coma roll-to-roll coating machine (200 mm width, 3.5 m/min, two 1m drying zone up to 150°C)
  • Roll-to-roll calendaring machine (max press 140 Bar and max heating 150 °C)
  • Electrode punch machine (Cathode: 83mm X 98 mm; Anode: 85mm X 100 mm)
  • Pouch Cell Making Machines (Pouch forming, Zig-zag Stacking, Welding, Electrolyte Filling and Sealing)
  • Degassing and Vacuum Sealing Machine
  • Ar-filled Glove Box
  • Vacuum Oven

Facility user charge rate is $1500/day.

Flow Chart of Pouch Cell Making

Pouch cell making procedures

Pouch cell Design

pouch cell size

Pouch cell 97 X 115 mm, up to 15 Ah

Location:

The Dry Room is in the basement of the Center of Excellence. 

COE-NECCES

Contact:

Battery Facility Manager
Hui Zhou 
zhouh@binghamton.edu
607-777-3309