As the focus of power generation increasingly shifts to renewable energy sources, stationary electrochemical energy storage systems (ESS) are gaining importance as an option for storing excess energy. They can level out fluctuations in power demand and supply. To meet growing storage demand, reduce costs, and increase efficiency, it is crucial to improve existing battery technologies and develop new ones that are suitable for stationary storage.
SGL Carbon offers various solutions with battery materials based on specialty graphite for energy storage systems, including flow, lithium-ion, lead-acid, and sodium-sulfur batteries. Our battery felts and bipolar plates enable efficient charging and discharging, especially in redox flow batteries. Other specialty graphite products help improve the fast-charging capability of mobile ESS such as lead-acid batteries and offer corrosion and fire protection. In addition, heat dissipation and cooling systems based on expanded graphite support the thermal management of NMC (lithium-nickel-manganese-cobalt) batteries.
The solutions from our portfolio of specialty graphites for battery applications are as diverse as the requirements of our customers.
With their optimized electrochemical profile, material purity as well as their fire and corrosion protection skills our materials and products for batteries meet the highest standards for quality, efficiency, and environmental compatibility.
