The European project NoVOC has a focus on environmentally sustainable processing techniques applied to large scale electrode and cell component manufacturing for Li ion batteries. The activities of NoVOC are tailored to the challenges addressed by as following:
- Lower carbon footprint cell manufacturing in Europe
- New sustainable electrode and cell manufacturing techniques with low energy consumption, and no Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) emissions
- Elimination of organic solvents in the production of electrode coatings, which reduces the costs associated with the solvent recovery system
- Dry manufacturing techniques with next generation materials
- Industrializing closed loops and process design to return low-value chemicals from manufacturing processes to high-value products
Within the framework of NoVOC, aqueous and dry cell production technologies for traction batteries produced in Europe are to be developed and demonstrated. The innovations proposed in NoVOC centre on improvements of the cell manufacturing process by integrating two novel electrode manufacturing processes into the currently available cell assembly process.
Our institute is one of the project 17 partners.
