Agenda

Tuesday 5 September 2023

Arrivals

6:00 pm8:00 pm

Welcome Reception
Join us for our first networking event of 20ABC. The Welcome Event will be held at the Sokha Siem Reap Resort & Convention Centre

Wednesday 6 September 2023

Day 1

 

9:00 am9:10 am

Conference Opening

Mark Stevenson Conference Chair: 20th Asian Battery Conference and Exhibition

9:35 am10:00 am

Lead–Acid Batteries in Asia

Li Dong Founder, Leoch International Technology Co., Ltd, Singapore

10:00 am10:25 am

Presentation title to be confirmed

Huw Roberts – Director, CHR Metals

10:25 am10:40 am
10:40 am11:00 am

Morning Tea

11:00 am11:25 am

Presentation title to be confirmed

Dr. Steve Binks – Regulatory Affairs Director, International Lead Association

11:25 am11:50 am
11:50 am12:15 pm

Polyethylene Separators Must Survive High Temperature Endurance (HTE) Testing

Dr. Jörg Deiters Director of application & customer engineering in the Americas and EMEA, DARAMIC LLC, Germany

12:15 pm12:40 pm

Presentation title to be confirmed

Dr Alistair Davidson – Director, Consortium for Battery Innovation

12:40 pm1:30 pm

Lunch

1:55 pm2:20 pm

Development of New Additives for Valve-Regulated Lead-Acid Batteries (VRLAB)

Dr Francisco Trinidad Independent Advisor, Exide (formerly), Spain

2:20 pm2:45 pm
2:45 pm3:10 pm

Presentation title to be confirmed

Don Karner – President, Electric Applications Incorporated

3:10 pm3:30 pm

Afternoon Tea

3:30 pm3:55 pm

Research and Optimization of Paste Formulation for Parking Air Conditioner Batteries Used for Heavy Duty Commercial Vehicles

Pengfei Cui Senior Engineer & Project Manager, Shandong Jinkeli Power Sources Technology Co., Ltd, China

3:55 pm4:20 pm

Presentation title to be confirmed

Ed Shaffer – CEO and Founder, Advanced Battery Concepts

4:20 pm4:45 pm

Presentation title to be confirmed

Marcus Ulrich – Business Development Manager, Ahlstrom

4:45 pm5:10 pm

Presentation title to be confirmed

Shane Christie – Technical Director, ArcActive

Thursday 7 September 2023

Conference Day 2

9:00 am9:25 am
9:25 am9:50 am

A New Manufacturing Approach to Lead̶ Acid Battery Separators

Dr Richard Pekala Chief Technology Officer, ENTEK International LLC, United States

9:50 am10:15 am

Finite Element Simulation of Deformation of Lead-Acid Battery Positive Plates

Dr Jun Furukawa Senior Adviser, The Furukawa Battery Co., Ltd., Japan

Dr Attila Palfalvi Branch Manager, Furukawa Electric Institute of Technology, Hungary

Tamas Poloskei Engineer, SuperPower Inc. (former Furukawa Electric Institute of Technology), USA

10:15 am10:40 am

LME ― Driving Sustainability and Managing Price Risk in Battery Metals

Mr Edric Koh Head of Corporate Sales, Asia, London Metal Exchange, Singapore

10:40 am11:00 am

Morning Tea

11:00 am11:25 am
11:25 am11:50 am

Lead–Acid Technology for E-Rickshaw Application — The Way Forward

Mr Subhankar Chakraborty Vice President – R&D, Exide Industries Ltd, India

Mr Indrajit Majumdar Senior General Manager – R&D, Exide Industries Ltd, India

11:50 am12:15 pm

Dual Chemistry Power System

Dr Michael Glenn Principal Technical Development Officer, Battery Energy Power Solutions Pty Ltd, Australia

Ms Vaishnavi Yuvaraj Product Development Engineer, Battery Energy, Australia

Dr David Brown R&D Consultant, Battery Energy, Australia

12:15 pm12:40 pm
12:40 pm1:30 pm

Lunch

1:30 pm1:55 pm

Presentation title to be confirmed

KD Merz – Vice-President, Technology, Abertax Technologies Limited

1:55 pm2:20 pm
2:20 pm2:45 pm

Presentation title to be confirmed

Michael Wipperfuert – Vice President Sales, CMWTEC Technologie GmbH

2:45 pm3:10 pm

PowerFill™ – A Novel AGM Separator to Improve Acid Filling and Battery Performance

Dr Yongzhi Wu Advanced Scientist, Hollingsworth & Vose (Suzhou) Co.,Ltd, China

3:10 pm3:30 pm

Afternoon Tea

3:30 pm3:55 pm

Impact of Lead–Acid Battery Cell Imbalance on Pack Performance for e-Rickshaw and Telecom Applications

Mr Sundar Mayavan Principal Scientist, CSIR- Central Electrochemical Research Institute, India

3:55 pm4:20 pm

Utilizing High–Energy X-Ray Imaging for Investigating Lead–Acid Battery Electrodes

Mr Chad Stone PhD Student, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Dr. Peter Mahon Senior Lecturer, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Dr. Rosalie Hocking Senior Lecturer, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Dr. Russell Newnham Chief Scientist, Electric Application Inc., Australia

Dr. Anthony Hollenkamp Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO, Australia

4:20 pm4:45 pm

Electrochemical Evaluation of Pb–Ca–SnSr alloy for Positive Grid of Lead–acid Battery

Mr. Ali Alagheband Hosseini Technical Manager, Sarv Sanat Toos (SST Co.), Iran

4:45 pm5:10 pm

Existing Situation Analysis of Intelligent Equipment and Intelligent Manufacturing of Storage Battery

Alex Huang Technical Director, Better Technology Group Limited, China

6:30 pm9:30 pm

Gala Dinner

Friday 8 September 2023

Conference Day 3

9:25 am9:50 am

The First Step to Developing the Next Generation Lead-Acid Battery: Positive Paste Structure

Mr Enqin Gao Director of R&D, Hammond Group Inc., United States

9:50 am10:15 am

Assessment of Carbon/Lignosulfonate Interactions on Lead― Battery Performance in the Absence of Cold-Crank Constraints

Dr Carter Abney Technical Application Manager for Batteries, Borregaard USA, USA

Mr Tim McNally Senior Strategic Advisor, Borregaard USA, USA

10:15 am10:40 am
10:40 am11:00 am

Morning Tea

11:00 am11:25 am

Contemporary Applications for MOLECULAR REBAR® Products

Dr Paul Everill Chief Technology Officer, Black Diamond Structures, USA

11:25 am11:50 am

Advanced Red Lead and its Benefit for the Lead–Acid Battery Formation Process

Rainer Bussar Head of Global R&D, PENOX, Germany

11:50 am12:15 pm
12:15 pm12:40 pm

Design Improvements and Manufacturing Processes for Achieving Ultra-Low Internal Resistance in Lead‒Acid Batteries

Mr Kalyana Sundaram Technical Manager, Eternity Technologies

Dr Mark Stevenson CEO, Eternity Technologies

12:40 pm1:30 pm

Lunch

1:30 pm1:55 pm

Battery Water Loss – Counter Measures Outside the Plate Stack

Ingo Koch Technical Director, Frötek-Kunststofftechnik GmbH, Deutschland

1:55 pm2:20 pm

Innovation of Separation Technology to Meet the Need of Future Lead–Acid Batteries

Prof. Ming Zhang Consultant, Huakang Eco-materials Co., Ltd, China

2:20 pm2:45 pm

Presentation title to be confirmed

John Wirtz – Wirtz Manufacturing Company

2:45 pm3:30 pm

Panel Session

Join us for our closing panel discussion.

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