Cradle-to-gate life-cycle assessment of future materials for commercial lithium-ion batteries: Raw Materials issues
2018 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (One Year)), 10 credits / 15 HE credits
Student thesis
Sustainable development
The essay/thesis is mainly on sustainable development according to the University's criteria
Abstract [en]
Current private transportation remains very harmful for the environment, especially the non-electric vehicles. This report proposes five novel type of nanomaterials-based Li-ion batteries to improve substantially the electric vehicle battery properties along with a substantial reduction of the environmental impact of its commercial counterparts. To address the problem, a cradle-to-gate life-cycle assessment has been performed in which the biggest emphasis has been focused on the energy and materials inputs and outputs during the raw materials extraction. We show how the analyzed Ni-doped graphene battery and Fe3O4-based Cu battery are the most environmentally friendly, stable, reliable and improved batteries among the five cases of study. These results can open new horizons for future advances in the implantation of an electromobility transportation.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2018. , p. 54
Keywords [en]
electric vehicles, raw materials, environmental impact, carbon dioxide
National Category
Energy Systems
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-27987OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hig-27987DiVA, id: diva2:1252477
Subject / course
Energy systems
Educational program
Energy systems – master’s programme (one year) (swe or eng)
Presentation
2018-08-10, Online via Skype, 08:00 (English)
Supervisors
Examiners
Note
I presented my work via Skype while sharing the screen.
2018-10-052018-10-012018-11-06Bibliographically approved