Life cycle assessment of sodium-ion batteries

By Jens Peters, D. Buchholz, Stefano Passerini, Marcel Weil. 2016

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Sodium-ion batteries are emerging as potential alternatives to lithium-ion batteries. This study presents a prospective life cycle assessment for the production of a sodium-ion battery with a layered transition metal oxide as a positive electrode material and hard carbon as a negative electrode material on the battery component level. The complete and transparent inventory data are disclosed, which can easily be used as a basis for future environmental assessments. Na-ion batteries are found to be promising under environmental aspects, showing, per kWh of storage capacity, environmental impacts at the lower end of the range published for current Li-ion batteries. Still significant improvement potential is given, especially by reducing the environmental impacts associated with the hard carbon production for the anode and by reducing the nickel content in the cathode active material. For the hard carbons, the use of organic waste can be considered to be promising in this regard. Nevertheless, when looking at the energy storage capacity over lifetime, achieving a high cycle life and good charge–discharge efficiency is fundamental. This represents the main challenge especially when competing with LFP–LTO type Li-Ion batteries, which already show extraordinarily long lifetimes.

Subfields: Automotive Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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In Automotive Engineering

1. Guoxiu Wang
2. Jens Peters
3. A. Cruz
4. D. Su
5. Marcel Weil
6. T. Rojo
7. M. Armand
8. Yi Cui

In Electrical and Electronic Engineering

1. Guoxiu Wang
2. D. Su
3. T. Rojo
4. Jens Peters
5. A. Cruz
6. M. Armand
7. Tianyi Wang
8. D. Shanmukaraj

Citations in the corpus

• Electrode Materials for Sodium-Ion Batteries: Considerations on Crystal Structures and Sodium Storage Mechanisms (2018, background): “made a systematic research on the relationship between the environmental effects and commercial production costs of various hard carbon materials [134].”
• Exploring the Economic Potential of Sodium-Ion Batteries (2019, methodology): “A recent life-cycle assessment found the SIBs to be promising under environmental aspects, and highlighted some still significant improvement potentials [15].”