Battery Production for Manufacturing (BatPro)

BatPro is a software package that permits you to input any of the hundreds of parameters used anywhere in a battery manufacturing facility. It comes with a standard library of five lithium battery types and default inputs for all the parameters specified in the different manufacturing areas of a factory. The five lithium battery types (cathode/anode) are

1. Li(NiCoAl)O2/graphite
2. Li (Ni,Co,Mn)O2/graphite
3. LiFePO4/graphite
4. LiMn2O4/Li4Ti5O12
5. LiMn2O4/graphite

The model permits you to determine the performance of a given battery chemistry/cell design in four electric vehicle (EV) applications:

1. Micro-HEV
2. HEV-high power
3. PHEV
4. Standard EV

The graphical user interface has pulldown menus to develop a simulation. There is an extensive help section, and schematic drawings are available that llustrate the different battery designs and factory layouts. The input involves providing battery requirements such as:

1. Power
2. Energy or range
3. Number of cells
4. Fade over lifetime
5. Assumes a "stiff prismatic pouch-type cell" battery pack with cells linked in series as shown in Figure 1.
   (Other battery types considered were for flat-wound and cylindrical cells, but the costs are very similar to those of pouch cells.)

Figure 1: Lithium battery design configuration: stiff prismatic pouch cell

The software assumes an OEM manufacturing process for a future plant in 2020 making 100,000 units/year as shown in Figure 2. All the variables can change depending upon your needs.

Figure 2: Battery manufacturing plant layout

Licensing Information

To license BatPro software from Argonne, print a copy of the appropriate agreement (commercial or educational/nonprofit), arrange for signature by your organization, and send the signed license agreement to:

Aaron Sauers
Software Licensing Coordinator
Technology Development and Commercialization
Building 201
Argonne National Laboratory
9700 S. Cass Ave.
Argonne, IL 60439

Please contact Aaron Sauers by phone at 630-252-7878 or e-mail to alert him that you are sending the agreement, signed by your organization.