How can European academia pave the way for standardized LCA/virtual battery twins?

The European Battery Regulation foresees monitoring of batteries regarding their global warming potential and utilization of critical raw materials. For this, each industrial battery above 2 kWh must have a battery passport. With the data generated by the battery passport, battery models will be fed to achieve real-time data about the global warming potential of the battery and the use-time of critical raw materials. This should enable consumers to choose the most sustainable battery solution and put pressure on reducing critical materials, and should also enable reuse and recycling approaches, such as second-life applications.

The prerequisite for such a battery passport is a virtual twin of a battery and a standardized way to define global warming potential for batteries along the whole lifecycle of a battery. For Lithium Ion Batteries (LIB), standardized life cycle assessment as well as virtual twins are already under development. For redox flow batteries, no such efforts have been made so far.

In this workshop, the FLORES network will showcase best practice examples from LIB and tries to define a roadmap for RFB to come to a redox flow battery passport.

Programme

08.30 – 08.45	Welcome and Introduction for the day Invited speaker from the European Union and overview of the Battery Passport activities for flow batteries	Peter Fischer – Fraunhofer ICT Georgios Bokas – CINEA Energy Eglė Karečkaitė – Flow Batteries Europe
08.45 – 09.15	Setting the targets for the workshop; Applications, market and life cycle review for flow batteries	Peter Fischer – Fraunhofer ICT Marie-Noëlle Pons – CNRS-Université de Lorraine
09.15 – 09.45	Requirements for the Battery Passport and other digital product passports	Christiane Plociennik - German Research Centre for artificial Intelligence Kaiserslautern
09.45 – 10.15	Introducing Battery Pass project: advancing the EU Battery Passport for sustainable industry ecosystems	Tilmann Vahle - SYSTEMIQ GmbH
10.15 – 10.30	Coffee Break
10.30 – 11.00	A Review of digital Twins	Prof. Dr. Peter Gorm Larsen - Aarhus University
11.00 – 11.30	Implementation of Digital Twin for Lithium-ion Batteries: Use Cases and Potential	Soumya Singh – Fraunhofer IPA
11.30 – 12.00	Hybrid Digital Twins - Leveraging Physics and Data	Raja Badrinarayanan - ANSYS
12.00 – 12.45	Lunch Break
12.45 – 13.15	The value of digital twins for battery safety prediction and performance optimization	Akrem Mouffouk - Gamma Technologies
13.15 – 13.45	Passport to the Grid: Pre-validating battery performance with digital twins	Sergio Costa - Typhoon HIL GmbH

Workshop

13.45 – 14.00	Introduction to workshop objectives, outcome and impact	Corneliu Barbu – Aarhus University Peter Fischer – Fraunhofer ICT Christina Schubert – University of Landshut
14.00 – 16.15	Part 1 – Life Cycle Assessment – Corneliu Barbu Part 2 – Battery models for virtual twins - Christina Schubert	Corneliu Barbu – Aarhus University Christina Schubert – University of Landshut
16.15 – 17.00	Discussion of the results of the two working groups – formulation of necessary steps towards a roadmap	Corneliu Barbu – Aarhus University Peter Fischer – Fraunhofer ICT Christina Schubert – University of Landshut